Amusing Out of Context Note

[autographedcat]

This morning at work, I was scanning through our tickets report to see if there were any open issues of interest to me, and the following notation on one of the workorders made me giggle uncontrollably for reasons that would probably not immediately make sense to anyone else in the office. A co-worker, indicating he was going to contact a customer to coordinate work on his cable modem plant, wrote:

"I am going to be getting with Charlie on MTA configs and upgrades later today."

Will he ever return?

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[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

http://www.mit.edu/~jdreed/t/charlie.html

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[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it makes much more sense now. I've never heard, or heard of, the song before this.

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[bardling.livejournal.com]

Not just me, then. Thanks for asking. :)

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[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of help.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I was thinking that I was introduced to the song via filk. But thinking about it it's possible that I heard it via filkers -- American ones in the SCA before I encountered the UK filk community. So perhaps it's not as well known over here as I'd thought.

I seem to remember at least one filk of it in something like the NESFA Hymnal, but again that's probably not very well known over here. Something to dig out and do in a circle, I think...

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[annonynous.livejournal.com]

I did a quick look through the Old and New Testaments but couldn't find anything. But then it's late, I'm tired and I only looked at titles beginning with Charlie.

The was, however, a rather long (12 verse) filk of it presented by the Boston In '98 Bid at the Conadian A masquerade as a skit. It won a number of ribbons and deserved every one of them, IMHO. It's title was "Charlie On The UFO", and it tells the story of Charlie's rise (fall?) from neo-fan to the pinnacle of SMOF-dom, World Con chair.

Ann O.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

The Boston one (of which I seem to remember seeing a part of the lyrics, I wasn't at the bid) was a bit late.

But I suspect that I was thinking of Fred Small's "Sergei in the Milky Way", which was probably sung (when I heard it) by a filker (it came out in 1992).

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[annonynous.livejournal.com]

The Kingston Trio had a fairly big hit (at least in the US) in the late '60s (?) with a version of it that cleaned up some of the political references. As a aging folkie, that's where I know the song from. Later generations or folks across The Puddle may well not have heard it.

Ann O.

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[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Which was why quite a few people were amused when Charlie Stross asked on rasfc for directions around Boston before the last Noreascon. Someone suggested the MBTA.