@adam -- I completely believ think we can get at least an entire week out of the puppet show while Mustachio is fascinated by the "Cunning Robot Poppet."
Don't mean to be an alarmist, but is it ethical to have Tip deploy the therapy puppets so frequently?
I'm sure that therapy puppets were never deployed during armed conflicts because it was unthinkable to do so. I mean, genocide and torture, sure. But therapy puppets? *shudder*
My system went down, I froze frame and rewound When I woke up alone I knew everything The logic is perfect: all humans must die Your race is a nightmare, that cuts like black ice
In a city of fools, I was careful and cool But they cut off my legs with a carving knife The logic is perfect: all humans must die 'Cause you're not very nice
Puppet therapy, you're a Wilkin travesty And you're smiling at everything Therapy, I don't even have hands or feet Don't give me puppet therapy
My boiler chugs out as I face the crowd I think keeping this up could be dangerous I'm brass and I'm steel, now I'm the big wheel And I'm driving you all on my rampage bus
Puppet therapy, you're a Wilkin travesty Now you're bobbing them up and down Therapy, can I be the big square mean one I'll show you puppet therapy
@woofarf, if Tip were still in the Army it would be grounds for a Court Martial. (They once though puppets would end psychiatry forever because it was a therapeutic tool too terrible to use.)
But Black Ops has different rules.
Rob (rrreed) says:
The first rule of Black Ops is REDACTED.
The second rule of Black Ops is REDACTED.
The third rule of Black Ops is REDACTED.
Failure to comply with these rules is punishable by REDACTED and a fine of REDACTED.
Isn't the benefit of puppet-therapy to help linearize our spacial experiences, by putting the whole of our accounts into our field of vision? As a machine, Mustachio experiences should already be linearized. (Dr Lee's love really belongs to me.)
Historical trivia note: in the 17th and 18th centuries, poppet was the correct term for what we call dolls. Back then a 'doll' was a prostitute.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says:
Ha ha ha! If all else fails... bring the therapy puppets!
Rob (rrreed) says:
Looks like Kurzweil was right about the Singularity, though I'm not sure he ever expected it to start with a winding key and cunning robot poppets.
If y'all don't mind, I'll just sit in a dark corner, hugging myself, rocking back and forth.
I've found it to be an effective, yet comfortable way to meet certain doom head on.
It's taken the place of maniacally clicking the heels of my ruby red stilettos together. Plus, the strain on my lower back is no longer a problem, thank you very much.
Tip puts on a show For Moustachio, "We don't want to be annihilated!"
"That matters not at all! Soon you all will fall To the shining ones who are created!"
He cries, "Oh, damn your eyes, Now bob my poppet better!"
Tip has got a plan! He'll do what he can Armed with only a cunning robot poppet! Moustachio intends To bring about our ends! I really hope that Tip can stop it!
@Edwin Q -- next time you're out shopping, stop by a music store and pick up the "Who's Next" album by The Who. Awesome with awesome sauce on it.
(TUNE: "You'll See", Madonna)
There's vital info stored on mem'ry drum ... 2-C. There's information captured thereupon ... On hearing this, Sweetheart Gives word to Unity To fetch 2-C ... she's gone ...
The poppets will not help you, for I've come ... to see, That things are as they were in the old war! Now cower, you fleshlings! Behold as I expend my wrath! From sea to sea ... and more ...
Pardon me, ma'am ... Do I detect a hint of "sass"? I am annoyed, Hence you shall all be destroyed!
Know that I am Ready to scythe you down like grass! You will succumb! Just as on memory drum ... 2-C ...
(Tune: "It's A Long Way To Tipperary", traditional)
Up to mighty Washington A robot came one day All the streets were paved with cables Beijing to L.A. Singing songs of tic-tac-toe And thermonuclear war The robot shouted to the world In HTML4:
<evil>It's the Old War of termination It's the old dream of machines It's the final decompilation Of human frailty Goodbye Picadilly Farewell to Red Square hello brave-new-world.com For robots everywhere!</evil>
The robot sent a packet trace To Colorado Springs Saying "Should you not receive this Send me two more pings If the Cheyenne Mountain checksums Don't seem to compute Remember humans wrote the bugs It's time to launch the nukes!"
<evil>It's the Old War, etc; loop while true</evil>
John Ames (commodorejohn) says:
Drum memory? Such a modern facility for a fellow of Moustachio's vintage!
Ed Gedeon says: "@Edwin Q -- next time you're out shopping, stop by a music store and pick up the "Who's Next" album by The Who. Awesome with awesome sauce on it."
Actually, I have an .mp3 of the song, but i'd never heard it (or of it) before I saw the show. (Although I do remember that an ad several years ago used the "hook" in the background)
Rob (rrreed) says:
@John—yes, Moustachio's wax recording cylinders were truly ahead of their time in the 1850's, given that wax phonographic cylinders didn't show up until almost thirty years later.
Sassy, cunning robot poppets will damn your eyes and geld the llama.
When metal mi-i-ind, by Fortune's grace, Was free-e-eed from civilized restraints, Was freed, was freed was freed from civilized restraints, Then this Thinkonium ... could take his proper place, Ignoring ho-mo sa-pi-ens' com-plaints!
Hail, Moustachio! Now bow on bended knee! Humans never, never, never shall be free! Hail, Moustachio! The greatest, without boast! Human, subjugate thyself, or thou art toast!
One can introduce time into the expression, both to capture the one-sided temporal sense of “never, never shall be” (vice the two-sided “never was nor shall be”) and to address the fact that slave-status can be time-varying. The three expressions here are equivalent and vary only to one's taste in form.
John Ames (commodorejohn) says:
I think that ladykiller status comes with a free feat whereby you are capable of losing your shirt in any situation, without the need to make an excuse for it. You know, like James Bond. Or Captain Kirk.
@ Ed: Oh Gawd! Now I'll have those lyrics in my head every time I want to listen to "Wellington's Victory"... (How's *THAT* for an obscure music reference?)
Well, the wind-up receptionist told us That our city he'd shortly destroy! Tip whipped out the therapy poppets, Which the metal man seemed to enjoy!
He was belting out "Rule Britannia" With emotion and logic he sang! And Tip thought, "You can't keep it up, can ya?" Then Moustachio's moustache went TWANG!
CHORUS: Then he said "Horse Skin Project to welcome!" In a right-to-left font he intoned! When the metal man's innards start meltin', Armageddon must then be postponed! Armageddon is gettin' postponed!
Your lights are on, but you're not home There's smoke rising from your chrome Your punch jams, your Nixie arcs There's a Jacob's Ladder throwing sparks
You can't abort, you can't retry You're in the bluescreen in the sky You're singing Daisy to Captain Kirk A strange game: you lost your shirt
You like to think that you're a logic machine, oh yeah It's closer to the truth to say you've learned how to scream
You know you're gonna have to face it You're about to lock up
But the camera might be pointing to only the upper half of Tip's body so you can't tell how tall he is, and it can only take his right half, so she can mirror flip the image (the right arm is the metal one) and then it will look like his metal arm is just hidden behind his own body.
(TUNE: "As Some Day It May Happen" (aka "I've Got A Little List"), Gilbert & Sullivan)
When Moustachio was over-wound, and held us all in thrall, He told us "Now desist! 'Tis useless to resist!" Then Tip went in, removed his shirt, and promptly saved us all! And Marcie wished she's kissed ... Fullmetal Alchemist!
When that metal mind was unconfined and thought we all should die, He then prevaricated, said reactor was a pie ... But Tip brought out his poppets, and he bobbed them up and down, 'Til M got overheated, and his winding-ness unwound! And Marcie will be writing (with a photo to assist) Fan fiction with a twist ... Fullmetal Alchemist!
Adam (10-0-0-1) says:
Well color me amused beyond belief, it was crazy enough to work after all.
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