Ebenezer and Snooch meet Cthulhu

On 2006-08-25, penned:
Yowie wrote:

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.


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.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2006-08-24, penned:
Takayuki wrote:

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.


Try

alt.religion.pastafarianism

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2006-08-25, Yowie wrote:

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

wrote:

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).

Helen Wheels wrote:
wrote:

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! Go on, Helen, do it! ;o)

--
Marina, 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

Helen Wheels wrote:

wrote:

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