Oolite Bulletins

Very repetitious, crashing in the wall,
Very repetitious, just can't dock at all,
Jameson with a cargo, made it through at last,
Seven pods of textiles, I ditched to save my ass

When you're docking with things no computers at hand,
Then your scuppered,
Match rotation so they say

Very repetitious, jump-drive when you can
Mass-locks are a problem, got no change of plan,
When I meet some pirates, it could all go wrong,
GalCop come and save me, I won't last for long

When you're shootin' at things but you find you're out manned,
Then you're scuppered,
Altercation doesn't pay, yeh, yeh

Very repetitious, happens every day,
Make it to the station, if I have my way,
Come into the aegis, get another chance,
Just can't seem to line up, I'm crapping my pants

When you're effort it brings nothin' but empty hands,
Then you're scuppered,
Commiseration by the way, oh, oh, oh

Stations say:
You can now dock in
But I can't help heading a course not true
Shall I pray?
Lord Giles let me in
When I can't help flying into my doom?

Everybody knows
The thing that I need
Docking, so it shows
It can be made easy
Take my plans,
Take my whole darn crew
If I can't dock we're in a right old stew

Everybody knows
Credits that I need
Shipyard to propose
Computers fit for me
Take my glands,
Take my left arm, too
If I could dock making some credits too
For I need help docking can be so cruel

Yo, savvy traders around this world
There are pirates you know they're after all you boys and girls
All your 'condas, your boas, escort mambas too
Well they're about to go down when they catch right up with you

You can fire from your rear like you don't care
Glide past the pirates I'm just a scavenger
One shield bank, two shield banks, both shield banks quick, mamba
Come on, eject, give me lots to earn

Scoop up (Up, up), cos that's the way
Hear a distress call I've got to get it underway
Scoop up (Up, up), what others earned
No matter what the cargo, inject before I'm burned

Now all you sucker hunters who wanna try
There's got to be a bounty and you know the bounty's high
You think your saving my rear and you're no fool
For fighting my attackers, my 'special gratitude'

You're heroic, I'm a cynic, I make my plans
Too bad there's not much cargo in that Fer de Lance
Just one chance, Fer de Lance, no big thanks from me, hunter
Come on, eject, give me lots to earn

Scoop up (Up, up), cos that's the way
Hear a distress call I've got to get it underway, ow

Loading up, armed to the teeth
Get in line, Fer de Lances
Met resistance, now I'm back with the fleet
Just a frog in his asp 'gainst the hive

So many mines it happens so fast
You need injectors for glory
Don't lose your ship in the streams of the blast
And you might take down three maybe five

I'm a furball survivor
In the space lanes I fight
Jumping in anarchies and states feudal
And the fastest of flyers
Can't escape from the fight
Be it insects or lobsters or birds, even tigers

Space is space: mostly no heat
Freeze your nuts, if you've any
Pray to your gods you've got a heated seat
For the will 'gainst the chill to survive

I'm a deep space suvivor
'gainst the chill of the night
Heating up with sun skimming solar fire
Cos the toughest of fighters
Keeps his nuts from frostbite
Be it rodent, humanoid, human, even tigers

Scooping up, gather my crop
Had the guts, got the booty
Yes maintenance, cost me more than I've got
Just a frog forty kids to provide

I'm a fam'ly provider
Forty kids and the wife
Earning up to salaries of my rivals
But unless I'm MacGyver
Fixing engines with tights
I'd rather be a lizard or man, or a tiger...

Redspear wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:51 pm

Nicely done hoqllnq

Redspear wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:53 am

Young frog, there's no need to feel down.

hoqllnq wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:55 pm

This frog's got cargo runs to do

Redspear wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:44 pm

Just a frog in his asp 'gainst the hive

hoqllnq wrote:

I like the idea that when species is not specified or not relevant, you just assume frog.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Magnificent work, gentlemen! Kudos!

hoqllnq wrote:

"Assassin" (Pronounced 'assasseen' I guess? ... It rhymes with 'Billy Jean' )

This cobra's mine
Gonna fly tonight
Launch into space
My maiden flight
This ship is new
Got a good deal
But I think you'll find
Needs weapons still
Come on, come on,
Hyperspace me
All right...

"I'm killing you
On count of three
Eject your goods"
He said to me...
I'm telling you
My credit drought
Makes this here game
Tough with no doubt

Well this cobra when I'm in it
It can leave me feeling blue
When my pulse laser does nothing
To station can't get through...

And now I'm dead, I'm dead - come on
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - you know it
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - come on, you know
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
"So commander won't you press space right now
Just to tell you once again",
Who's dead...

I made it out
The pirate throng
They'd a blew me up
Before too long,
Then scannin' eyes
Present me a sight
This blip comes up:
The station light
Can't make the leap?
You're not a man
No 'puters owned
Well I'll be damned

Well they say there's nothing to it
You just have to line up true
But my friend that don't mean nothing
When station it hits you...

And now I'm dead, I'm dead - come on
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - you know it
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - you know it, you know
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
"So commander won't you press space right now
(So commander won't you press space right now)
Just to tell you once again",
(Just to tell you once again)
Who's dead...


I can try again tomorrow
Contract to some other place
Find assassins they be waitin'
And blow me into space

And then I'm dead, I'm dead - come on
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - you know it
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
You know I'm dead, I'm dead - you know it, you know
(Dead, dead - really, really dead)
Woo! Woo! Woo!
(And the whole world has to answer right now
Just to tell you once again...)
Who's dead...

I made it through Zateteis
Somehow I made it through
Didn't know the cost it was
Credits quite a few

Ship was beat incomplete
Goods I had, they were destroyed too
But you fixed the steel
Yeah, you made the steel
Shiny and new

Like a Jameson
Fighting for the very first time
Like a Jameson
Eject cargo
Most the time

Gonna head to the station, buoy
My ship is pretty fast
This tradin's all I do
Equipment it needs cash

I ship wine most the time
Profit's strong, and that don't get old
Though I should try out
Yeah, I should try out
Furs or so I'm told

Like a Jameson
Trading for the very first time
Like a Jameson
Buying food and
Liquor/wines

Oooh, oooh, oooh

Get in line and dock fine
It's a chore each an ev'ry time
'Cause you may just be
Yeah, you may just be
A smear on the side

Like a Jameson
Docking for the very first time
Like a Jameson
Match rotation
Up with mine...

Redspear wrote:

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

Diziet Sma wrote:

Magnificent work, gentlemen! Kudos!

Redspear wrote:

I Kill Jameson

Redspear wrote:

I confess I may have had Weird Al Yankovich's version in the back of my mind somewhere...