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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2006Ebenezer and Snooch meet Cthulhu
Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group, and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence of web cartoons starting with http://www.twolumps.net/d/20060814.html.  SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group, >and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence >of web cartoons starting with http://www.twolumps.net/d/20060814.html. Actually, I meant to post this message to rec.arts.sf.composition. Well, at least the cats are on-topic. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >>Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group, >>and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence >>of web cartoons starting with http://www.twolumps.net/d/20060814.html. > >Actually, I meant to post this message to rec.arts.sf.composition. >Well, at least the cats are on-topic. Cats are definitely on topic, but I was wondering why Cthulhu would also be on topic. But then, I was also wondering who would win if Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster got into a fight. > Cats are definitely on topic, but I was wondering why Cthulhu would > also be on topic. But then, I was also wondering who would win if > Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster got into a fight. Funny you should mention this... I just learned about the FSM last night. Apparently it's a big net phenomenon, but I don't seem to travel in the right circles, as I had never heard of it before now. Joyce > > Cats are definitely on topic, but I was wondering why Cthulhu > > would also be on topic. But then, I was also wondering who would [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > night. Apparently it's a big net phenomenon, but I don't seem to > travel in the right circles, as I had never heard of it before now. Try alt.religion.pastafarianism Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > Cats are definitely on topic, but I was wondering why Cthulhu would > also be on topic. But then, I was also wondering who would win if > Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster got into a fight. Well, Cthulu is evil and the Flying Spaghetti Monster is good (particularly if you are a pirate, since pirates are his chosen people). The Flying Spaghetti Monster created this world and all in it, whereas Cthulu is only one of the many Elder Gods and not even the most senior of them. On the other hand, that means Cthulu has a posse and the FSM doesn't (though the FSM has a lot of pirates, who could certainly beat up the human Cthulu cultists). I'm torn. Good is supposed to triumph over evil, but Lovecraft's Elder Gods are so scary because they're less conventionally evil and more just amorally powerful beyond all reason...they don't hate us, we just look tasty, and our opinions on the matter are so infantismally minute as to be unimportant. (*looks aside at Nocturne. Nox-Sothoth, the Cat with a Thousand Badnesses?*) --Fil > Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group, > and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence > of web cartoons starting with http://www.twolumps.net/d/20060814.html. I've been wondering this for years: how does one pronounce Cthulhu?? Phonetic spelling, please. For some reason, my brain has switched some letters, so I always hear it in my head as "clue-thu". I love E & S! Ebenezer is my favorite cartoon cat. Joyce > I've been wondering this for years: how does one pronounce Cthulhu?? > Phonetic spelling, please. For some reason, my brain has switched some > letters, so I always hear it in my head as "clue-thu". I've assumed it was "k-too-loo". >> I've been wondering this for years: how does one pronounce Cthulhu?? >> Phonetic spelling, please. For some reason, my brain has switched >> some letters, so I always hear it in my head as "clue-thu". > > I've assumed it was "k-too-loo". I believe (and DH is an HP Lovecraft fan) it's pronounced Kuh thoo loo (Kuh rhymes with Duhm thoo and loo thymes with two) "Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: > >> I've been wondering this for years: how does one pronounce Cthulhu?? > >> Phonetic spelling, please. For some reason, my brain has switched > >> some letters, so I always hear it in my head as "clue-thu". > > > > I've assumed it was "k-too-loo". > I believe (and DH is an HP Lovecraft fan) it's pronounced > Kuh thoo loo (Kuh rhymes with Duhm thoo and loo thymes with two) Thanks, both of you! Next question: Who/what *is* Cthulhu?? Joyce >"Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Joyce Cthuhlu is, appropriately enough, an extremely nasty chthonic deity (chthonic = of or relating to the underworld) invented by H. P. Lovecraft (1890- ), a hugely popular fantasy/horror writer. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >>"Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >(chthonic = of or relating to the underworld) invented by H. P. >Lovecraft (1890- ), a hugely popular fantasy/horror writer. Whoops, I accidentally mouseclicked before I could fill in the death date. Lovecraft's lifespan was 1890-1937. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > >>"Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: > >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Whoops, I accidentally mouseclicked before I could fill in the death > date. Lovecraft's lifespan was 1890-1937. H.P. Lovecraft wrote lots of really "B Grade Hammer Horror Style" horror stories. The language he uses, IMHO, all rather campy and faux-gothic, which is what gives it its appeal. All very 'overacted' and 'dark and mysterious'. I love it. He also had a phobia about penguins. DH & I figured he must have had a bad experience at Catholic school with nuns :-) My involvement and fandom of Cthulu came first through the role-playing games based on the Cthulu mythos. It was a percentage-based roleplaying system and was therefore easier to understand than the complicated (at the time) AD&D or Rolemaster systems, and fitted nicely with general horror themes, which the other roleplaying systems didn't generally tough (the tended to be strongly either high fantasy or straight science fiction). That I played Cthulu with a bunch of sick twisted people who, like me, enjoy really campy Z-grade shclock horror meant that most of our Cthulu games were horror-comedies (like Evil Dead) rather than straight horror, and as such, we as a group very much appreciated when Cthulu himself was made into a plushie toy. Now thats what irony is all about :-) Speaking of which, I have an idea for a Convention roleplaying game (ie, 3 hours long, not a campaign) based in Cthulu-world. Wish I had time to write it properly, let alone time to actually play it. Sigh. When did I become oneof those boring grown ups???? Yowie > My involvement and fandom of Cthulu came first through the role-playing > games based on the Cthulu mythos. A-ha! That explains it. I've been hearing about Cthulhu for years, and he seems to be fairly well-known all over the place. But I don't think that Lovecraft has that amount of mainstream appeal or familiarity, so when someone else answered that Cthulhu was a Lovecraft creation, it puzzled me that a character from one of his books could be so well-known, to the point that I've seen CTHULHU graffiti on buildings. But ah, I get it - it's also a *role-playing game*. Lots and lots more people do that than read Lovecraft. So now it all makes sense. > we as a group very much appreciated when Cthulu himself was made into a > plushie toy. LOL!! Yowie, perhaps you would also enjoy these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ Joyce - who neither reads Lovecraft, nor (after a couple of failed attempts) plays RPGs, but figures that the latter is far more popular than the former > > My involvement and fandom of Cthulu came first through the role-playing > > games based on the Cthulu mythos. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > LOL!! Yowie, perhaps you would also enjoy these: > http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ Tease! If I had a million dollars, that site would get quite a bit richer! Yowie (I am *such* a geek grrl) > > My involvement and fandom of Cthulu came first through the > > role-playing games based on the Cthulu mythos. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > But ah, I get it - it's also a *role-playing game*. Lots and lots > more people do that than read Lovecraft. So now it all makes sense. Maybe, maybe ... I don't read Lovecraft, never read one of his stories about Cthulhu, but I somehow acquired a general sense of the concept in my teen years. I suspect it came from reading a lot of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which tends to have a fair number of columns by writers, and of course writers tend to be fairly familiar with influential works by other writers ... my guess is I learned about Cthulhu indirectly somewhere in there. Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > LOL!! Yowie, perhaps you would also enjoy these: > http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ > > Joyce - who neither reads Lovecraft, nor (after a couple of failed attempts) > plays RPGs, but figures that the latter is far more popular than the former I'm SO tempted to sneak a link to this into my employers' web site (I work for a school of public health). >> LOL!! Yowie, perhaps you would also enjoy these: >> http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I'm SO tempted to sneak a link to this into my employers' web site > (I work for a school of public health). LOL! Go on, Helen, do it! ;o) SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > > LOL!! Yowie, perhaps you would also enjoy these: > > http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/ > > > > Joyce - who neither reads Lovecraft, nor (after a couple of failed attempts) > > plays RPGs, but figures that the latter is far more popular than the former > I'm SO tempted to sneak a link to this into my employers' web site > (I work for a school of public health). Or maybe you should just buy a couple to have around the office... :) Joyce > we as a group very much appreciated when Cthulu himself was made into a > plushie toy. Now thats what irony is all about :-) My older son went to Romania with an archaeological team to dig a Neolithic site and a Roman Empire site. He took a plush Cthulu with him... when he was done with the dig, he bummed around Europe for a couple of weeks. We got a series of travelogue pics of Plush Cthulu at Heathrow, Plush Cthulu in Iasa, Plush Cthulu at the Eifel Tower... Katrina SignatureHistory: special people in special places at special times Anthropology: everyone else the rest of the time -KWorley, 1997 >> we as a group very much appreciated when Cthulu himself was made into a >> plushie toy. Now thats what irony is all about :-) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Katrina Like a Traveling Gnome, except creepier. I think. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > He also had a phobia about penguins. DH & I figured he must > have had a bad experience at Catholic school with nuns :-) H. P. L.'s personal life was stranger than his fiction. He was fond of cats, though. Bud > Whoops, I accidentally mouseclicked before I could fill in the death > date. Lovecraft's lifespan was 1890-1937. Hehehe. And here was me thinking he was undead. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> Whoops, I accidentally mouseclicked before I could fill in the death >> date. Lovecraft's lifespan was 1890-1937. > >Hehehe. And here was me thinking he was undead. Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww! LOL Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >"Magic Mood Jeep?" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Next question: Who/what *is* Cthulhu?? H. P. Lovecraft was an American horror/science fiction author active in the early 20th century. A number of his stories share a common setting, where the Earth was once ruled by a set of horrific deities known as the Great Old Ones (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos). They are now in a deep sleep, but human followers are seeking to bring them back to full activity, which would not be a good thing for humanity. Cthulhu is one of these deities, described as having a face like a squid (think of the Davie Jones character in the recent _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movie). Various other writers have written stories in this same setting, and expanded upon it (not always in ways compatible with each other). Lovecraft's writing is a bit of an acquired taste, being rather on the "purple prose" side (overly florid descriptions). SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Cthulhu is > one of these deities, described as having a face like a squid (think > of the Davie Jones character in the recent _Pirates of the Caribbean_ > movie). I haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean, but I did see the Ebenezer and Snooch cartoon, so I'll just picture him as a squid-like mop. :) Thanks, Joyce |
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