What oddball/funny songs does Doug have in his helmet?
Something like "Springtime for Hitler" from "The Producers?"
And what fun can you _not_ have with Frank Zappa?
Or how about "Rabbit Valley" by the Four Postmen?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Hello, I'm the Foxboy who's authoring "I Was a Teenage Dummy Plug."
Just spotted this forum while trying to shatter my writer's block, and noticed a reference to IWATDP.
That said, I'll say that DW II is one of the better semi-self-inserts I've read so far...
Any how, I'll prolly make a few random posts here and there every now and then.
Thanks for your time and effort.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I'm not sure if this ones been brought up before

The Creatures - Godzilla!
I never wanted a spinning top
I used to swing a riding crop
I never wanted a stupid doll
I used to swing a tomahawk
And then I saw him and I was won
Godzilla, King Kong
Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns
I like the way he jumps up and down
I like the way he shakes the ground
He's even better when he's annoyed
He breaths out fire and makes this noise
I'd like to hold him in my arms
I'd never let him come to harm
Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns

Godzilla
Ha
Godzilla
Ha
What is that?
What is this?
A giant Monster
But he's so sweet!
When I'm in Tokyo or Japan
I'm always thinking its his land
The other toys are second best
Godzilla, I love him best
Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats the towns
Godzilla
He trashes cars
Godzilla
He's not from Mars
Godzilla
He'll knock you down
Godzilla
He eats big towns

--Rod.H
Now watching: Iron Chef - lobster

...an omake for the end of chapter 11. Enjoy.
-- Bob

"I'm going to stop you, Pink. It's that simple."

"Yeah, right," Pink snarled. "You and what army?"

I smiled and shook my head. "No army. I don't *need* an army.
Just me."

* * *

Daley gaped as the massive, familiar saurian head rose above the
MegaTokyo skyline, opened its mouth, and bellowed a distinctive
roar that echoed back and forth across the city. The plates
running along the creature's spine began to glow. Then it opened
its mouth once more and belched forth a jet of radioactive fire.

"We're gonna need bigger guns," said Leon calmly.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

When I first laid out the itinerary for the Walk, I very intentionally mixed equal amounts of anime and non-anime destinations. I did not want it to become an all-anime work, as I felt that would limit its potential audience, and besides, some of the non-anime places I wanted to send him were fun. At the moment, though, the Buckaroo Banzai Step (DW4) is the only survivor of that part of the original batch of worlds.
In the last couple months, though, Peggy and I have talked about other possible destinations, mainly in the context of the very highly hypothetical sequel series Drunkard's Vacation, which would send Doug and Shadowwalker bouncing together around several universes intentionally. At the moment, my two particular favorite destinations for these discussions are engaging my imagination so strongly that I might move them into the Walk (although to do so I'd have to remove Maggie, and that would annoy Peggy no end). Just as a teaser, they are:
1. The turn-of-the-century Egypt of Elizabeth Peters' "Amelia Peabody Emerson" books. If you're familiar with these, I'm thinking of setting it at a point somewhere during Nefret and Ramses' mutual teenage years. I've been looking forward to a confrontation between an annoyed Doug and a couple of (retired) Egyptian gods who think he's such a nice boy...
2. The Chicago of the "Bishop Blackie" mysteries by Andrew Greeley. This one would be a fun challenge, because I'm planning on Doug playing it very very low key here -- no obvious metapower usage, although there will be some questions his presence will raise that Blackie Ryan will never quite be able to resolve. Since this universe is the same as that in Greeley's "Angels" books, there are godlike creatures at work in it -- vast, multidimensional beings who sound a whole lot like the gods of my cosmology, only on a lesser scale -- and Doug may well draw their attention.
(Edit: I really do know how to spell "Egyptian", honestly.)


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Hello. I just started reading DW II the other day, and I was working my way through Chapter 11, when I noticed something odd. I may be wrong, and I'm probably not the first to spot this, but I believe that the Amazon Quartet is from SM:S, the *fourth* season, and they're associated with the Dead Moon Circus. The Dark Moon Family's defecting quartet is, I believe, the Uncanny Sisters.
Is this a research error (happens to everyone) or is it just a difference between the worlds?

For those who perfer a non leathal form of attack on people.
"Thunderstruck" - AC/DC
Effects are that Doug can "set off" Flash-bang affects in a given radius (I leave that up to who ever wants to come up with a range). Good for making angry mobs dazed and confused.
Lyrics at www.lyricsfreak.com/a/ac-dc/3371.html
Shawn Earl

I've added the current version of Brian Dinnigan's "Sailor Loon" image to the DW Gallery Page; I've left the old one there, too, just for comparison's sake.
In case anyone was wondering.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

Since I can't give teasers for Chapter 15, I've decided to mine my early, pre-Lisa drafts for cute scenes to share. This one was born out of a fragment of material in one of the later "Legion's Quest" BGC installments (there are two or three, depending on how you count), in which Minerva drops neutronium anvils on some boomers.
-- Bob
While the mystery vigilante was at best very difficult to trackwith most of her sensors, visual scanning usually had noproblems, and Minerva watched the encounter with great interest.A standard combat boomer had appeared on a typical rampagethrough Tinsel City while the Knight Sabers were engaged in acommissioned job on the other side of MegaTokyo. A few minuteslater, the vigilante's motorcycle roared out of an alleyway,startling the first few AD Police to respond, and gaining theboomer's full attention. To her surprise, he somersaulted off the moving cycle and engaged the cyberdroid while the bike parked itself a safe distance away.Only seconds into the fight it was clear to Minerva that the vigilante was easily holding his own, and actually wearing the boomer down, even without the use of his strange matter-energy powers. But when a second boomer appeared from the shadows of an abandoned building, it looked like the battle might turn against him. Minerva considered a moment, then grinned. It didn't matter whoever and whatever he was -- she liked the vigilante. A little aid from her wouldn't hurt. She sent the command. Miles below, in MegaTokyo, a combat boomer slowly stalked up tothe young man while he was engrossed in slowly dismembering thefirst cyberdroid. As the boomer shielded its eyes and preparedto strike, there was a haze of blue light and soft, almostmusical sound some meters above its head. Moments later, theboomer suddenly and unexpectedly terminated function with thesounds of overstressed metal and ruptured pseudo-organics. Ashort distance away, many of the best of AD Police stood stock-still, poleaxed looks upon their faces.At the sudden, loud noise, the vigilante almost seemed toflicker, blurring from his position facing the disabled boomer toa defensive posture facing the now-dead second. A moment laterhe relaxed and cautiously approached. Disbelieving, he ran hisfingers over the lettering that read "ACME" and then, laughinguproariously, collapsed over the anvil which had smashed theboomer utterly.The AD Police forces on the scene milled about uncomfortably. While it was a perfect opportunity to arrest the vigilante, each of them had had at least one encounter with MegaTokyo's previous metahuman inhabitants. They all knew the futility of trying to take one into custody; no one felt like risking the possibility of embarrassment or worse.Finally, he stood, raising his arms to the sky and lookingupward. "" he called out in English, stilllaughing, ""In orbit, Minerva blushed.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I found a fan dub of the first ep of the live Sailor Moon on bittorrent last night. I watched maybe five minutes -- including the opening credits -- then stopped and deleted it. It's not awful, but it's not worth downloading either. My advice to anyone who sees this listed somewhere is to skip it.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.