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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:00 pm
by JJ Burke
that happens to a lot of guys
i've heard
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:12 pm
by Eternities End
Jesus Prime wrote:He couldn't stand up straight, you know.
Thats what he wants you to think
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:15 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Jesus Prime wrote:Three lefts.
Well, that explains my inability to follow pirate treasure maps.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:20 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Eternities End wrote:Man I bet Lovecarft could kick all our asses in hand to hand combat...
He was the founder of Shambling Horror Kung Fu you know.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:32 pm
by krakenten
Yeah, like the guy who thought up Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath had no mental difficulties whatever.
His subconcious must have been a dungheap!
"When you walk into the restaurant,
Down the Innsmouth Road,
And your brain is full of isopods,
And mutant nematodes......."
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:58 pm
by Jesus Prime
E.A. Lovecraft wrote:Jesus Prime wrote:Three lefts.
Well, that explains my inability to follow pirate treasure maps.
I've explained this before. It's under the 'X'.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:02 pm
by Eternities End
Wrong...thats were the fake treasure is...the real tresures always under the Y
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:20 pm
by odin2
But the REALLY good stuff is under the Z.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:30 pm
by Eternities End
Yah but how often do you find one of those?
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:09 pm
by JJ Burke
you usually have to go through 25 other ones before you get there
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:41 pm
by krakenten
Sex was pretty well repressed as a topic in HPL's time-at least in the pulps he wrote for.
There were magazines like "Spicy Detective" that had mildly erotic content, Howard and Leiber used s/m themes fairly tastefully, but c'mon, how you gonna get much sex in a story about Azathoth?
HPL was something of a recluse-a solitary and self-contained man, his mother was a dominating and devouring sort of smotherer, he had a lukewarm marriage, and do remember, his father died of syphlis, mad as a march hare.
That alone might have made him shy of sex.
As for racism-ever read Kipling?
The dark skinned villians of the Lovecraft canon have much to do with the somewhat mysterious lives led by people of color in those segregated days.
Also by the exotic cachet of orientals-they were a total mystery to whites then-Dashiell Hammett wrote of them sometimes, and wasn't friendly, either.
Filipinos, Hawiians, Maylays, Hindus and especially any sort of half-caste were usually found in the docklands-which were not nice neighborhoods.
The man is dead, let's not dig him up and chastise him, ok?
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:48 pm
by JJ Burke
you're absolutely right krak..
to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:00 am
by Hodgson
JJ Burke wrote:you're absolutely right krak..
to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?
What'll you take for the sausage grinder? I have 3 thumbtacks and a dusty shoelace.
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:11 am
by Jesus Prime
JJ Burke wrote:you're absolutely right krak..
to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?
Well, I already have a shovel...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:44 am
by krakenten
My friend Hannibal Lecter wants them all, I'll send him over to your house for them....