Post by @mycotropic@beige.party

2026-07-24 01:26 UTC

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @Dougfir@m.ai6yr.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @W6KME@mastodon.radio @larand@appdot.net @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org I had a revelation moment with that song. My mom and dad put my siblings and I to bed when we were little to a record player playing one side of an LP every night. Either a musical, Tom Lehrer or The Kingston Trio (we didn't have a lot of records). I memorized every song on all of those records before I was 12 and still know them. When I was 24 or so I moved to Boston, discovered that Scollay Square Station was now Government Center but then remembered the lyrics; "Charlie's wife goes down to the Scollay Square station every day at quarter past two and through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich as the train goes a rumblin' through!" And it occurred to me that she could have just handed him a T coin so that he could come home...... Wait..... OHHHhhHH! SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO COME HOME!!!!!! Friggin revelation that!

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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-24 01:28

@mycotropic@beige.party @Dougfir@m.ai6yr.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @W6KME@mastodon.radio @larand@appdot.net @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org much like great cartoons (like rocky and bullwinkle), folk songs can have a content level suitable for kids but an underlying joke for the adults in the room. there are slews of "fun" interpretations you can make for "puff the magic dragon". ;)

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@timoj@mastodon.online 2026-07-24 02:29

@mycotropic@beige.party @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @Dougfir@m.ai6yr.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @W6KME@mastodon.radio @larand@appdot.net @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org A real downside to the Charles River nowadays is how clean it is and how the nearby city jail is now a luxury hotel. Really confuses the kids at Fenway when Dirty Water comes on

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