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(Reuters) Interesting Lovecraft was right: Octopuses have common Antarctic ancestor. All hail Cthulhu   (reuters.com) divider line 135
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Tabatha Static 2008-11-09 06:21:29 PM  
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Anaxphone [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 06:35:04 PM  
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Cagey B [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 06:52:57 PM  
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Raw_fishFood 2008-11-09 07:23:24 PM  
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Xaxor [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 08:17:56 PM  
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TheRameres 2008-11-09 08:35:42 PM  
In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

 
Falcon Hunter 2008-11-09 08:35:56 PM  
This will be fun.

Returning later for pix of fun.

 
Krymson Tyde 2008-11-09 08:38:42 PM  
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Ow My Balls 2008-11-09 08:38:52 PM  
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Octupussessessssses

 
Echo35 2008-11-09 08:39:55 PM  
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

\\Boy spell check had fun with that...

 
A stranger in the Alps 2008-11-09 08:42:00 PM  
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Don't Tongue the Reaper! 2008-11-09 08:42:28 PM  
The BBC article (new window) has pictures. The pink one is cute!

 
Klippoklondike 2008-11-09 08:42:31 PM  
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Hmoob 2008-11-09 08:43:44 PM  
Octopi. What are octopuses?

 
some swedish girl 2008-11-09 08:44:14 PM  
What's a lovecraft?

 
theorellior 2008-11-09 08:44:29 PM  
FTA: Octopuses apparently spread around the world after Antarctica became covered with a continent-wide ice sheet more than 30 million years ago, a shift that helped create oxygen-rich ocean currents flowing north, a report said.

For some reason, I think this is just awesome.

 
Alchemist93 2008-11-09 08:44:33 PM  
TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

I'd say it's a fairly good place to start. I've always drifted aimlessly with Lovecraft's work, never really sticking to any kind of order when jumping from story to story. I'd say just get a nice thick collection and skip around.

 
Kali-Yuga 2008-11-09 08:45:19 PM  
lolthulhu.com

 
theorellior 2008-11-09 08:45:29 PM  
Vote Cthulhu! Why bother with the lesser evil?

 
cynicalMFer 2008-11-09 08:48:04 PM  
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altinos 2008-11-09 08:49:03 PM  
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

 
Doc Batarang 2008-11-09 08:50:38 PM  
Hmoob: Octopi. What are octopuses?

Oh you don't get a banana! The only correct plural of octopus is octopuses.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 08:50:44 PM  
some swedish girl: What's a lovecraft?

A tv show from the 1970s where a lot of washed up actors go on a cruise every week and hook up.

 
Nickelback 2008-11-09 08:50:46 PM  
Hmoob: Octopi. What are octopuses?

Careful. the Great Old Ones have little use for proper conjugation.

 
altinos 2008-11-09 08:50:57 PM  
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kuzo 2008-11-09 08:52:48 PM  
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LongCthulhu has arisen

 
LawrencePerson 2008-11-09 08:54:10 PM  
In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

It's not bad. If you can, pick up the trade paperback Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, which conatins the majority of his best work. IIRC, the Library of America volume is also pretty good.

Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

 
LevelHead 2008-11-09 08:54:20 PM  
Fowler's Modern English Usage states that "the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses", and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopi

GAD

 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 08:54:51 PM  
TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

The Call of Cthulhu.

 
Hmoob 2008-11-09 08:55:12 PM  
Doc Batarang: Oh you don't get a banana! The only correct plural of octopus is octopuses.

It's OK. I don't like bananae anyway.

 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 08:55:28 PM  
LawrencePerson: Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

Awwww, hell no! I love Dream-Quest!

 
WFern 2008-11-09 08:56:38 PM  
Tabatha Static : [food]

Inaccurate as the first part of that is on evolutionary terms, I laughed all the same.

Alchemist93: TheRameres: In the middle of reading Mountains of Madness now. Is that a good starting point for the Cthulhu Mythos? Not sure what to read next.

I'd say it's a fairly good place to start. I've always drifted aimlessly with Lovecraft's work, never really sticking to any kind of order when jumping from story to story. I'd say just get a nice thick collection and skip around.


I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

 
BattleFrenchie28 2008-11-09 09:02:24 PM  
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Sanity Shattering Bathuhlu!

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Senescent Dawn 2008-11-09 09:02:48 PM  
WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

 
theorellior 2008-11-09 09:04:15 PM  
LawrencePerson: Avoid the Dusney dreamlands stuff (Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, etc.).

I agree with this statement. I was unimpressed with that book.

 
Alchemist93 2008-11-09 09:04:20 PM  
WFern:

I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

"Rats In The Walls" was the first Lovecraft story I ever read. It had a similar effect on me at the time.

 
attackingpencil 2008-11-09 09:06:56 PM  
WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

That story + Pickman's Model + the one where the guy cuts the dudes feet off for the coffin (I have this hollow wooden thing that I had to walk on near my house, at night and drunk, whoa) scared the hell out of me when I first read them way back when.

 
Somacandra [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 09:07:03 PM  
Senescent Dawn:
The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.


Personal Fave: "The Colour Out Of Space"

 
seveword 2008-11-09 09:07:12 PM  
Lovecraft is the only writer I've ever read that actually creeped me out and gave me the heebie-jeebies. Most modern 'horror' writers try and pull 'scary things' out of their asses, and they just end up being stupid.

 
Ixly 2008-11-09 09:08:44 PM  
Senescent Dawn: WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.


And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.

 
Senescent Dawn 2008-11-09 09:09:31 PM  
Somacandra: Personal Fave: "The Colour Out Of Space"

I almost forgot about that one! Yes, that's right up there.

 
Xenomech 2008-11-09 09:19:21 PM  
Ixly: And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.

...all tucked away under gambrel roofs...

 
t3knomanser 2008-11-09 09:22:07 PM  
All this stuff and nobody pointed out that it's the Old Ones and the Shoggoths that come from Antarctica, and they aren't Cthonic? For shame!

 
Fano 2008-11-09 09:22:40 PM  
Hounds of Tindalos cannot be far behind.


/Looks nervously around for the sign of Hastur

 
Fano 2008-11-09 09:24:01 PM  
We've had several Cthulhu threads in the last couple weeks, maybe the stars are right.

/for a greenlight

 
Nefarious 2008-11-09 09:25:35 PM  
The eco-drive commercial doesn't seem like comedy this season.

 
Nefarious 2008-11-09 09:26:23 PM  
oops

 
Jonny.the.Q 2008-11-09 09:30:05 PM  
Ixly: Senescent Dawn: WFern: I bought an anthology a while back which started with The Rats in the Walls. I'd never been so creeped out.

The Rats in the Walls is his finest story, in my opinion. Real, true horror. At the Mountains of Madness is a great starting point, since it touches on most parts of the Mythos. Other ones of special mention, if you want a Lovecraft intro, are The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, Pickman's Model, and Dreams in the Witch House.

And don't forget to watch all the Re-Animator movies. They really capture the antediluvian, eldritch, cyclopean nature of his ichoric narrative.


Yeah.. Ixly's messing with you. Just watch the first one. The second one when you're drunk. The third one when you wanna jerk off to that cute chick that in it.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-11-09 09:30:33 PM  
Well damn it, where were all of you last week??? I thought the Elder Gods were supposed to win the election!

 
I Voted Cthulhu 2008-11-09 09:31:12 PM  
t3knomanser: All this stuff and nobody pointed out that it's the Old Ones and the Shoggoths that come from Antarctica, and they aren't Cthonic? For shame!

Sorry, I was in the can.

 
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