Geo Holms' Loose Ferrets

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

So my dad was the assistant music editor on Tarzan, and idk if it was Bring Your Kid to Work Day or something but one day he did just that so there I was, this incredibly small 1st grader, in an absolutely cavernous recording studio with a full orchestra and a giant screen playing the scene they were taping the score for, and my little brain couldn't handle the big music and the big movie happening all at once so I started crying and it was the first time music ever brought me to tears and it was too much to take in so we stepped out of the studio and ran directly into Phil Collins, who looked to me very much like my dad, and in my delicate emotional state I became immediately convinced that my dad had been copied and nobody had told me so I started crying harder, and Phil Collins said something that was probably meant to be calming but it was with a British accent so I thought there was a copy of my dad in every country and I absolutely lost it at the notion that other kids would get to have my dad, and my dad ended up having to carry me back to the car.

I had vague plans to be cheeky and try my hand at a full Dragon Bash rewrite, but there's remarkably little work to be done because the verses focus on the bashers boasting about how their enemy ain't all that and they can take 'em together, not dwelling on the dragon-ness of it all. It would really just be a matter of pronoun massaging (it -> they) and a few key noun (creature, lizard, beast) replacements to pull it just far enough out of its original context. You can even leave stuff like "minions" intact and it scans fine.