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Post #4050437

2026-07-24 00:58 UTC

@Dougfir@m.ai6yr.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @W6KME@mastodon.radio @larand@appdot.net @moira@mastodon.murkworks.net @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org "fight the fare increase, vote for george o'brian. get poor charlie off the MTA." fun trivia. the MTA song was based on "the train that never returned", which was based on "the ship that never returned", all 3 using the same melody.

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  • @mycotropic@beige.party 2026-07-24 01:26

    @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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