I went to the Worldcon L4 in '24(TTTO "The Liar".)
And I was the firstest Trufan in the door!
At that point of LaGrange
The gravity's mighty strange
You can drink a quart of Tully1 and have some more!2
- BBC News - Trojan asteroid seen in Earth's orbit by Wise telescope
- Earth/'s Trojan asteroid : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
(Don't nobody tell Bill about this, he gets downright irrational on the topic of filkers...)
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1. Tullamore Dew whisky. Very popular with filksingers.2. IIRC, the original went thusly:
I went to the Worldcon L5 in '05
And I was the firstest Trufan to arrive!
At that point of LaGrange
The gravity's mighty strange
You can drink a quart of Tully and survive!
I could be wrong, I haven't done any filking in 20 years, +/-.
Then again, we're talking filk music here, so who cares if I'm wrong?
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