The Thing That Dok Built

[Cainad (dec.)]

I find it kind of amusing that, towards the end of all that, I started looking up work and power conversions and shit like that, in a futile attempt to restore rational thinking in my mind after all that mad cackling.


Tears were spilling off of my face and onto my keyboard that day. Good times.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I find it kind of amusing that, towards the end of all that, I started looking up work and power conversions and shit like that, in a futile attempt to restore rational thinking in my mind after all that mad cackling.


Tears were spilling off of my face and onto my keyboard that day. Good times.

Likewise here, my throat and cheeks was sore from laughter

[Freeky]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

[BadBeast]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

I'm surprised you ever got over it. That kind of thing can have you waking up in a cold sweat 30 years later.

[Freeky]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

I'm surprised you ever got over it. That kind of thing can have you waking up in a cold sweat 30 years later.

Well, this IS Tucson. There's always something far more awful just around the next corner.

[Dysnomia]

I just nearly peed myself.   


I also kinda want one...

[BadBeast]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

I'm surprised you ever got over it. That kind of thing can have you waking up in a cold sweat 30 years later.

Well, this IS Tucson. There's always something far more awful just around the next corner.

So what are the origins of Tuscon? Why did people settle there in the first place?

[Freeky]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

I'm surprised you ever got over it. That kind of thing can have you waking up in a cold sweat 30 years later.

Well, this IS Tucson. There's always something far more awful just around the next corner.

So what are the origins of Tuscon? Why did people settle there in the first place?

Dok would be able to tell you better than I could.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

If it's anything like Texas, we sent a bunch of gringos into a part of Mexico to overthrow the local government and become part of the US

[BadBeast]

If it's anything like Texas, we sent a bunch of gringos into a part of Mexico to overthrow the local government and become part of the US

Was that Davy Crockett, and the Alamo?

[Payne]

Tucson is merely the logical progression which includes amongst many others: Persepolis (one of many concurrent), Carthage (rebuilt several times before we finally got them to "fuckin' stop it already"), Moslem Jerusalem, Paris or London or Madrid or Berlin (depending on where your loyaltys lay at any given time), Moscow and Beijing.

Tucson is all of these. And worse. And very much less.

It is a requirement, an eternal constant. It must always exist, and each must be greater than the last.

Alexander never left Persepolis, he carried it on his back - leaving him broken. Carthage only finally fell when Rome was sacked, and its screams were both the birthing yelp and the lullaby of Imperial Rome. All the others are still with us, tearing shit up.

There is no terminus on the Lost Highway. There are only service stations.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, that was pretty hilarious, once I got over it.

I'm surprised you ever got over it. That kind of thing can have you waking up in a cold sweat 30 years later.

Well, this IS Tucson. There's always something far more awful just around the next corner.

So what are the origins of Tuscon? Why did people settle there in the first place?

Tucson has always existed. 

In fact, Tucson is the only place that exists.  If you try to drive out on I-10, you wind up driving in the other side, like in Pac Man.  Rumors exist of "other cities", but that's fantasy on the level of unicorns and fairies.  I mean, WHY would there be anywhere else?  Everything is here.

[BadBeast]

It's one of those Cities in America that no-one (here) has ever been to.  I know plenty of people who have been to America, even spent a year or two there, travelling around, New York, Detroit, Boston, Seattle, Vegas, LA, San Francisco, New Orleans, Dallas, even Orlando,  but no-one ever seems to have Tuscon on their ''Places I saw in Amerca'' stoplist. The only person I can think of who ever went there, was fictional and in a Beatles song. (And even then, he spent the rest of the song trying to get back)

Maybe, as suggested in this thread, it really is Mythical, like Shangri-La, or Moorcock's Tanelorn, only instead of being the City that wanderers spend lifetimes trying to discover it's whereabouts, Tuscon kind of sucks people in, without them realising quite where they are, then they spend eternity stuck there, trying to get out. A bit like Swindon, but without the year round cloud cover.
And it's name is an anagram of  ''So, Cunt''!
Not that that means anything, I'm sure it's a lovely place to live. But nowI just can't get the ''PacMan'' analogy out of my head. With Dok running round munching Cactus buttons, pretending to let those ghosts hunt him down, then getting his Horrorup on, and chewing the bastards to shreds. Sweet.    

[Doktor Howl]

It's one of those Cities in America that no-one (here) has ever been to.  I know plenty of people who have been to America, even spent a year or two there, travelling around, New York, Detroit, Boston, Seattle, Vegas, LA, San Francisco, New Orleans, Dallas, even Orlando,  but no-one ever seems to have Tuscon on their ''Places I saw in Amerca'' stoplist. The only person I can think of who ever went there, was fictional and in a Beatles song. (And even then, he spent the rest of the song trying to get back)

That's because if people come here, they stay here.

And it's name is an anagram of  ''So, Cunt''!

POST OF THE YEAR.

[BadBeast]

It's one of those Cities in America that no-one (here) has ever been to.  I know plenty of people who have been to America, even spent a year or two there, travelling around, New York, Detroit, Boston, Seattle, Vegas, LA, San Francisco, New Orleans, Dallas, even Orlando,  but no-one ever seems to have Tuscon on their ''Places I saw in Amerca'' stoplist. The only person I can think of who ever went there, was fictional and in a Beatles song. (And even then, he spent the rest of the song trying to get back)

That's because if people come here, they stay here.

And it's name is an anagram of  ''So, Cunt''!

POST OF THE YEAR.