Quote: Corcoran's mouth drew into a tight line. "Regrettably, my dear comrades, this situation calls for a less.... Thalian melody. I do hope you will pardon me, Buttercup, if I ask for the backing track for the intermezzo from 'Bohemian Rhapsody?'"''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
-Sure Thing, Captain!- the ship's AI chirped. -A little change never hurt anyone!-
The ship's speakers began the piano cue, and the Captain sang:
"I see a lit-tle Zwil-nik Squad-ron on the right!
Hard to PORT! Hard to PORT!
Activate our full thrus-ters!
Thunderbolts and lightning!
Others do our FIGHTING, please!
Mad evasion! (Mad evasion!)
Mad evasion! (Mad evasion!)
Mad evasion as you go!
Here we go-o-o-o!
We're just a tour ship and caught in a war zone!
(We're just a tour ship from a far fennish home!)
Spare us our lives from this monstrosity!
Here they come, there we go! Will they let us go?
(Dismal-ly, NO! They will not let us go!){LET US GO!}
(Dismal-ly, They will not let us go!){LET US GO!}
(Dismal-ly, They will not let us go!){LET US GO!}
(Will not let us go!)Let us go!
(Will not let us go!)Let us go!
No, no, no, etc.
Mamma mia! Mamma mia! They've got to let us go!
Dear BUT-tercup, we've got to get our Passengers free!
Get them free!
Get them FREEEE!"
The evasive maneuvers brought about by the song allowed the FeZigs to slip between the Pinafore and the pursuing Boskonians just as the backing music entered the "Wayne's World Headbang."
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll