Favorite Lovecraft Story (Final poll)

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Poll ended at Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:56 pm

The Call of Cthulhu
6
50%
Nyarlathotep
3
25%
The Whisperer in Darkness
3
25%
 
Total votes: 12

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Nikola Tesla was WAY better then the band!!
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i read some of his book.. mechanical genius rivaled only by self-admiration
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odin2 wrote:Nikola Tesla was WAY better then the band!!
Your Damn Right He Was!
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odin2 wrote:Nikola Tesla was WAY better then the band!!
Pfft . . . that guy couldn't even play a kazoo. It was just rotating-magnetic-fields this and high-Q-helical-resonators that, and blah blah blah.
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He did actually play the electric kazoo right up until that unfortunate saliva incident in Copenhagen while on tour.
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I heared he could sing...that was off corse till Edison sabotaged his indirect current generator and got 1000volts to his nutsack...
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but westinghouse was a bad influence on edison. westinghouse first gave edison the idea of electrified woodwinds: at a high-brow party in north carolina, a thunderstorm gathered and lightning struck westinghouse's dog on the great balcony of an old plantation estate. the dog was playing 'when the saints go marching in,' along with a hired hillybilly jug band, upon an instrument called the caninophone devised for the pet by close family friend tom edison, for little beatrice westinghouse's 10th birthday. the date itself escapes me
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But could the caninophone do this?


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