“Do You Wanna Take The Hugos?”
To the tune of “Do you want to build a snowman?”
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Brad
Larry?
Do you wanna take the Hugos?
Come on let’s change the game.
I’m tired of those liberals
Like criminals
Who steal our rightful fame!
This used to be our genre
But now it’s not.
They make all the puppies cry.
Do you wanna take the Hugos?
(And also puff up both our egos…)
Larry
Release the puppies!
Brad
Do you wanna take the Hugos?
And fuel our social justice hate?
I think this backlash is long overdue.
We should start talking to
Vox Day and Gamergate.
(It’s about ethics!)
We’ll rally our bloc voters
To support our slate
The day of the pups is nigh…
Brad
Larry?
Please, I’m feeling picked on.
The CHORFs are challenging our Facts.
It’s like they don’t know we’re the victims here,
Trapped by our fear of leftist mob attacks.
They’ll toss us in their gulag,
And vote No Award.
Look at my puppy tears!
Do you wanna take the Hugos?
Matthew Thyer
May 16, 2015 @ 12:29 pm
You may be asked to sing this at WorldCon, just FYI.
celestineangel
May 16, 2015 @ 12:33 pm
Bwhahaha, I HOPE you’re asked to sing this at WorldCon and that someone videos it because that would be great in so many ways.
Tina Smith Gower
May 16, 2015 @ 2:44 pm
This has FILK open mic written all over it.
ganymeder
May 16, 2015 @ 4:36 pm
LOL, this is HILARIOUS. 😀
Sally
May 16, 2015 @ 7:41 pm
Instant classic filk.
If you don’t sing it in Spokane, other people will.
Jim C. Hines
May 16, 2015 @ 8:24 pm
Honestly, I wouldn’t be comfortable singing this at WorldCon. Partly because I’m not that comfortable singing, period. But also because it’s one thing to ridicule the ridiculous here on the blog. But the actual WorldCon should, in my opinion, be free of all this puppy nonsense as much as possible, if that makes sense?
Matthew Thyer
May 17, 2015 @ 12:37 am
I guess I can understand that POV Jim. I won’t ask you to sing it, promise! Friday afternoon, while getting the grocery shopping done my youngest and I were traversing the isles singing the alphabet song. We sounded awful. At the end of it he broke into a chorus of “My Dad is fat, my Dad is fat” just to ham it up. I could hear people snickering on the far side of both isles.
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Jessica
May 18, 2015 @ 12:51 am
Posted elseblog, and reposted here because ego. Or something.
Cue Tina Turner:
Out of the ruins, out from the wreckage
Can’t make the same mistakes this time
We are the Right Wing, the old generation
We are the ones they left behind
And they wonder when we are ever gonna change?
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains
Do you wanna steal the Hogos?
Just manipulate the votes now.
All we want is life beyond the Hugo Show
Looking for something we can rely on
There’s got to be something better out there.
Mmmm, Spaceships and heroes, their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
And they wonder when we are ever gonna change?
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains.
All the children say,
Do you wanna steal the Hogos?
Just manipulate the votes now.
All we want is life beyond the Hugo Show
So what do we do with our lives?
We leave only a mark.
Will our story shine like a light,
Or end in the dark?
Give it all or nothing!
Do you wanna steal the Hogos?
Just manipulate the votes now.
All we want is life beyond the Hugo Show
All the children say,
Do you wanna steal the Hogos?
Just manipulate the votes now.
All we want is life beyond the Hugo Show
Jonathan Olfert
May 18, 2015 @ 9:52 am
On one level I know this shouldn’t happen at WorldCon.
On another level I know it needs to.
Cat Sittingstill
May 18, 2015 @ 11:44 am
This shouldn’t happen at this WorldCon. WorldCon itself I think needs to be as neutral as possible.
But there’s no reason other cons couldn’t have Puppy theme filks. Because I’ve got one song done and one in progress…
Stephen A. Watkins
May 18, 2015 @ 2:44 pm
Four out of four puppy-paw-thumbs-up.
Matthew Foster
May 18, 2015 @ 5:13 pm
I think it is naive to think Sad-Rabies tracks won’t already be all over WorldCon. That is about the least neutral place possible this year. I’ve been keeping up on Pup blogs. They have no intention of playing nice. Far better to sing the song (at least metaphorically) and celebrate both the good, and what’s gone very very wrong, than to leave it be, and let the Pups take over.
Jim C. Hines
May 18, 2015 @ 5:42 pm
I’m not sure which blogs you’ve been reading. I’ve mostly been avoiding them at this point. But my sense is that a lot of the pups are, forgive me, more bark than bite. I’m not saying people are wrong to be worried, but even if they do decide to try to crap all over Worldcon, that doesn’t mean I want to do the same.
This is just me speaking for myself and my own comfort zone.
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