# Suggest a filk for WorldCon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675 "2015-01-23T15:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675/21 "2015-02-13T00:12:30Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! > > I have an idea that I have always felt should be done at a con but I have no musical talent nor do I go to cons very much. But I had a desparate need to share it with someone and now here’s my chance. > > My Idea: > > **The Vulcan and the Wookie should be friends.** (or title along similar lines) > > Sung to the tune of the[Farmer and the Cowman should be friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5cwSBnyQU), with lyrics suggesting that Star wars fans and Trek fans should put aside their differences to and learn to get along (or not). Lots of opportunity for inside jokes and stage theatrics if you can get some cos-players to help out. Let’s see . . . “The Wookie likes to wield the Force, the Vulcan wants a power source, but that’s no reason why they can’t be friends . . .” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675/22 "2015-02-13T00:16:21Z")
"I’d like to say a word for the Wookie "His life is hard and rough I do determine "His fur from scalp to knees “Is a nest for lice and fleas --” “I sure am feelin’ sorry for the vermin!” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675/23 "2015-02-13T02:25:11Z")
Again, I don’t think you know anything about recent Worldcons, Amateur Barbarian. They are not turning into Comic-Con or Dragoncon. They mostly have somewhere between 4,000 and 7,000 attendees. They have a nice mix of ages in the attendees. They have a nice mix of literary and media events. Like the regional conventions (I’m mostly familiar with Balticon and Capclave), they serve to attract younger fans and get them interested in literary science fiction. If all non-literary events were banned from Worldcon, it would turn into a much older on average and a much smaller convention. The same is true of the regional conventions. If all non-literary events were banned from them, they would become much older on average and much smaller conventions. The Worldcon and the regional conventions would eventually die out. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675/24 "2015-02-13T03:27:27Z")
"I’d like to say a word for the Vulcan "With Surak’s way of logic he has gone far "He lives a quiet life “Free of hate and greed and strife --” “Jest don’t let one get near ya durin’ Pon-Farr!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675/25 "2015-02-16T23:32:13Z")
Anything of Kipling’s that Leslie Fish has set to music would be apropos. See [“Hymn to Breaking Strain.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEwxguHUi_U) (That’s an especially apt choice after a spaceship has blown up or something.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-filk-for-worldcon/710675.md?page=1)