Grab Your Seat 2016-09-14

[FreeFlier]

One guess who's going to get the helper job . . .

--FreeFlier

[lake_wrangler]

The girl on our right looks like a younger version of Brandi...

[ShirouZhiwu]

I think I hear the pun jar menacingly singing the Flintstone's theme song's ending at you...

I'll have to think for a while about how such an upbeat theme can be sung menacingly.

Switch it to a minor key and slow it down a bit.

An example with 'Every Breath You Take'

Then have Ozzy do it.

[Alkarii]

Or have Slipknot perform it.

[Dave]

I'll have to think for a while about how such an upbeat theme can be sung menacingly.

Switch it to a minor key and slow it down a bit.

An example with 'Every Breath You Take'

Slow and in minors certainly helps the menace... but that song started out menacing from the very beginning! Obsession, stalking, and control... it's actually quite dark even as originally performed. A masterpiece of ambiguity.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548

[jwhouk]

Does Mr. Peterson look a lot like Shelly, or am I seeing things?

I was thinking he looked more like a certain Tuna Girl...

[AnotherFairportfan]

I'll have to think for a while about how such an upbeat theme can be sung menacingly.

Switch it to a minor key and slow it down a bit.

An example with 'Every Breath You Take'

Slow and in minors certainly helps the menace... but that song started out menacing from the very beginning! Obsession, stalking, and control... it's actually quite dark even as originally performed. A masterpiece of ambiguity.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=548

No ambiguity at all - except in the minds of people wh don't get it. Sting had been amazed anyone could think it was anything else.

Try this one ... by the cute and cheery Monkees ... and listen to what it really says.

Earl's gotta die...

[jwhouk]

Earl's gotta die...

Maryann and Wanda were the best of friends...

[TazManiac]

(fairportfan's current avatar) 14Sep2016 (reminds one of the former Mrs. TazManiac...) Only that ones a bit too pale, but other wise...

[AnotherFairportfan]

(fairportfan's current avatar) 14Sep2016 (reminds one of the former Mrs. TazManiac...) Only that ones a bit too pale, but other wise...

Larger version in the "More Stuff" thread - and a chibi version of the same character.

She's a rookie cop in a fairly-new webcomic, called Danger Zone One.

Here's the page topper:

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[Opus the Poet]

(fairportfan's current avatar) 14Sep2016 (reminds one of the former Mrs. TazManiac...) Only that ones a bit too pale, but other wise...

Larger version in the "More Stuff" thread - and a chibi version of the same character.

She's a rookie cop in a fairly-new webcomic, called Danger Zone One.

Here's the page topper:

dzo.jpg

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"Backs don't work like that!" Don't believe me? Try that pose yourself, but have a phone within reach and 911 on a single button dial.

[AnotherFairportfan]

(fairportfan's current avatar) 14Sep2016 (reminds one of the former Mrs. TazManiac...) Only that ones a bit too pale, but other wise...

Larger version in the "More Stuff" thread - and a chibi version of the same character.

She's a rookie cop in a fairly-new webcomic, called Danger Zone One.

"Backs don't work like that!" Don't believe me? Try that pose yourself, but have a phone within reach and 911 on a single button dial.

One of Kelly Freas's early covers for F&SF showed a red-haired witch scribing a pentacle. He submitted a sketch and got approval.

He was planning to use his wife, Polly as a model ... but discovered that his composition would have required her to bend in a way she couldn't.

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He took two pictures of her and spliced them together to work from.

{Polly was a Babe in those days}

I was familiar with the cover, but i didn't notice it till Kelly mentioned it in a talk at an SF con. It's not really obvious, but...

I miss him.

[TazManiac]

She's a rookie cop in a fairly-new webcomic, called Danger Zone One.
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Highway to tha Danger Zone!
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[ShirouZhiwu]

Or have Slipknot perform it.

I'm Sticking with Ozzy. He could do something like this to it:

[Warrl]

I think I hear the pun jar menacingly singing the Flintstone's theme song's ending at you...

I'll have to think for a while about how such an upbeat theme can be sung menacingly.

By repeating the last line over and over, as it slowly approaches you?

WILMA!

WILMA!

WILMA!

WILMA!

...but I'm not Wilma...

[lake_wrangler]

I think I hear the pun jar menacingly singing the Flintstone's theme song's ending at you...

I'll have to think for a while about how such an upbeat theme can be sung menacingly.

By repeating the last line over and over, as it slowly approaches you?

WILMA!

WILMA!

WILMA!

WILMA!

...but I'm not Wilma...

Ah, but that's the end of the scene, not the end of the song... Fred does not sing. Arthur sings, beautifully, even, yet only in the shower. But Fred does not sing. Therefore, that may be the end of the scene that plays behind the theme song, but that is not the end of the song.


Now, imagine the pun jar, advancing creepily, saying over and over:

We'll have a gay old time!

We'll have a gay old time!

We'll have a gay old time!

We'll have a gay old time!

We'll have a gay old time!


Then ponder, in fear and trembling, just what exactly it means, by that...

[FreeFlier]

I don't think gay, I think something else. Devyn is not human. Therefore she does not behave according to human norms.

Are any of them truly human?

The teacher could also simply not be Devyn's type.

Or she already has someone dear to her*, so she won't get infatuated with someone else.

Or, since we know she is a bit of a loner** (or would that be emotionally challenged, from getting picked on so much?), she has emotionally inoculated herself against such infatuations, fearing the inevitable *** negative result...

Or she's just too mature for her age? I remember something similar happening when I was seven years old but with a box of candy. I clearly remember thinking "this is so undignified."

It could always be that she refuses to act like Uncle Zeus . . . What was the comment? "Hades is a psychopath and Zeus will hump anything that moves"?

--FreeFlier

[lake_wrangler]

It could always be that she refuses to act like Uncle Zeus . . . What was the comment? "Hades is a psychopath and Zeus will hump anything that moves"?

--FreeFlier

That would actually make a lot of sense...

[TazManiac]

Thread Drift, Defeated!

[lake_wrangler]

Thread Drift, Defeated!

Ah, but thread drift can be so much fun! Some forums develop it into an art form...