Skin Horse

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2015-03-07

by shaenon on March 7, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    March 7, 2015, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I would have went with the fez.
    😉

    • thejoemoose
      March 7, 2015, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Fezzes ARE cool. *nods*

      • Guesticus
        March 7, 2015, 10:36 am | # | Reply

        Only if you are Moroccan

        • Freddie Freelance
          March 7, 2015, 10:57 am | # | Reply

          My Fez was bought in Fez in the ’50s by my great-uncle, so that’s cool.

        • Rex Vivat
          March 7, 2015, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

          No, they’re ALWAYS cool.

    • davidbreslin101
      March 7, 2015, 6:02 am | # | Reply

      Or a nice Panama!

      • E. Bernhard WargE. Bernhard Warg
        March 8, 2015, 9:45 am | # | Reply

        With a purple hatband?

    • oneuniverse2
      March 7, 2015, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t think most of these readers got the reference.

      • woozy
        March 8, 2015, 12:50 am | # | Reply

        Seriously, I don’t think there’s a single person on the planet who doesn’t get the reference. I think babies who died infancy three hundred and forty-nine years before the reference was originally made, all get the reference. Your grandmother gets the reference.

        Some things are just that over exposed.

        • Matthias von Schwarzwald
          October 30, 2019, 9:05 pm | # | Reply

          What reference?

  2. frithrikr
    March 7, 2015, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    I like taj’s better. They flatter my face shape. & they’re prettier.

  3. Manifesta
    March 7, 2015, 1:00 am | # | Reply

    Ed Gedeon has been a vital part of our Narbonic/Skin Horse family for many years. I had the great pleasure of dining and writing a filk with him a couple years ago, and I was struck by what a great guy he is, alongside all that talent. Ed’s wife Joan died on February 15th. I was away and just discovered this, so it may be news to some of the other readers as well.

    You can offer condolences at eagedeon(at)yahoo.com, or at Ed’s Everyday Heroes strip: http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php. You can also make a memorial donation to the American Cancer Society—the link is at: http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Joan-Ruth-Gedeon-102200846.

  4. Manifesta
    March 7, 2015, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    
Manifesta
    tune: “Devil with the Blue Dress On,” Shorty Long & William “Mickey” Stevenson, 1964

    Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum
    Lookin’ mighty nice, here she come
    Wearin’ a hat on an android head
    Not the red fez, the flat blue instead
    Wearin’ a flower in her pinned-up hair
    Doctor Ao calls her, she’ll be right there

    Doggie with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress
    Doggie with a blue dress on
    Doggie with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress
    Doggie with a blue dress on

    That handsome doctor has caught her eye
    Hopes that he won’t see through her big lie
    Hiding in A-Sig in Bubbles’ bod
    Those Mads can’t tell that she’s acting odd
    So Sweetheart runs to her dinner date
    The dining hall’s strict, so she can’t be late

    Doggie with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress
    Doggie with a blue dress on
    Doggie with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress
    Doggie with a blue dress on

  5. daibhidc
    March 7, 2015, 5:46 am | # | Reply

    Tune: “Move Over, Darling” Doris Day

    Stop trying on hats,
    Move upstairs, Darling.
    It’s time for a chat,
    Move upstairs, Darling.
    Dr Ao’s plans fell through, so now he’s asking you to the hall.
    You weren’t waiting for his call!

    The mealtimes are prompt,
    Move upstairs, Darling.
    And M’s getting stomped,
    Move upstairs, Darling,
    Although it’s a trial, your blanket denial’s working well,
    As far as you can tell.

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 7, 2015, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    Glad to see everyone’s holding up their end in edduard’s absence. Here’s mine. From “All Revved Up With No Place to Go,” Meat Loaf. (More or less.)

    I was nothing but a lonely girl looking for something in hats
    And you had plans for dinner that fell through.
    You called me between a fez and a flattop, so I had,
    I had nothing else to do.
    I was a civil servant, a paid-leave clerk.
    And when this mission came, I was out of work.
    Every time that you called
    I didn’t take it slow.
    All dressed up and someplace to go.

    I was nothing but a lonely Canadian girl,
    Sneaking in concealed in a drone.
    You were something that made me stay jacked in.
    Eager for a call on the phone
    I was out of my quarters and I ran up the stairs,
    Since the dining hall was like musical chairs.
    So every time you called,
    I had the need to know.
    All dressed up and somewhere to go!

  7. mittfh
    March 7, 2015, 7:24 am | # | Reply

    It’s just as well Sweetheart’s unlikely to meet Niue in the asylum… 🙂

  8. Shadowmehr
    March 7, 2015, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Denial may be more than a river in Egypt, but Sweetheart is still sailing down it in the royal barge, being gently fanned with the proper paperwork.

  9. Guesticus
    March 7, 2015, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Why didn’t she take one of the hats after all that time trying them on? 🙁

    • Classic Steve
      March 7, 2015, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      Because he’d know it wasn’t hers?

  10. The Mock Turtle
    March 7, 2015, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

    D’aw! I love Sweetheart’s little blush!

  11. oneuniverse2
    March 7, 2015, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    Tune: “I’m Just a Girl That Can’t Say No”, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

    It ain’t so much a question of not knowin’ what to do;
    I’ve know’d what’s right an’ wrong since I’ve welped!
    I’ve heerd a lot of stories, and I reckon they are true,
    But now I’ve started making denials that can’t be helped.
    I know I mustn’t keep trying hats for fit,
    But when I see a chapeau…..I furgit!

    I’m jist a dog that must say no,
    And for that grammar I must fix
    Dr. Ao always says “come on, let’s go”
    Jist when I ortn’t say nix!

  12. Knuckles
    January 27, 2022, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    So the dresses and hats were absolutely left there to distract Sweetheart. And somehow it worked perfectly. Which means. It’s someone who knows all her weaknesses.

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