Where Did CHTULU Come From?

[rucky]

What's the story??? It's funny & sounds like an inside joke I should've known about by now but it's been around so long I've just been acting like I'm in on it. Kinda like when somebody remembers your name and keeps using it and you forgot theirs but it's too late to ask what their name is.

So I'm askin.

[Dookus]

1. the stories of H.P. Lovecraft n/t

[rucky]

4. okay, but how did the Chtulu for Prez thing come about?

I even saw a bumper sticker.

"Why settle for a lesser evil?" (heh).

[Fenris]

5. Cthulhu is evil

He will devour your soul.

[rucky]

9. Does Cthulhu hate our freedom?

and love terr?

[Fenris]

10. Cthulhu hates all.

Freedom and terror, these words are meaningless.

[rucky]

15. More evil than..............................................THIS?:

EEEEEVVVVIIIILLLLL! evil

[alvis]

13. Vote for the Greater of Two Evils!

http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/plush_cthulhu.html

[rucky]

14. EVIL! I have seen PURE EVIL!

and it's cuddly!

I wonder if they sell crib sets & diaper stackers. I've got a great idea for the baby room. Wonder if my wife will mind?

[alvis]

16. Evil Plush and Cuddly!

Ok paraphrasing Buckaroo Banzai ( Evil. Pure and simple from the eighth dimension.)

:)

[Westegg]

21. The deuce you say...

...If it was a snake it would've bit me.

[DoNotRefill]

24. Do they still have "Summer Fun Cthulhu"?

He's PRECIOUS! Especially the Hawaiian shirt, orange swim trunks, flip-flops, and straw hat. I've got one sitting on my mantel, along with the Eeyore with a H&K PS-1 sniper-rifle.

[Fenris]

2. Lovecraftian Mythology

[Delano]

3. Spelling- in case you want to google

"Cthulhu" not "Chtulu".

[rucky]

6. Google sez: Did you mean Cthulhu?

we both goofed. not like it's something we learned for the SATs

[Delano]

11. I Spelled it right the first time! And you can't prove that I didn't!!!!

Those "edited on" remarks are there for something else! Yeah, really! I never mipsplel!

:silly:

[Dookus]

7. well..

to be accurate, it's "want" and "Cthulhu"

[Failure]

8. A Metallica song from "ride the lightining" nt

[jus_the_facts]

12. H.P.Lovecraft.....

......I hold his short stories in high regard! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[derby378]

17. Got introduced to Lovecraft fiction in high school

I still have four hardbound volumes of his stuff on my bookshelf. Great stuff.

If you can't wrap your brain around a Riemann sphere, however, don't even think of visiting sunken R'lyeh. It's all non-Euclidean geometry. You'll go batty trying to figure out the angles.

[jus_the_facts]

18. This quote from 'Call of Cthulhu seems almost prophetic now....

...."The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ~H.P.Lovecraft~ The Call of Cthulhu

...from Black Seas of Infinity-The Best of H.P.Lovecraft selected by Andrew Wheeler

[Canuckistanian]

19. Obligatory "Hello Cthulhu" pic here

[0rganism]

20. If you haven't yet read the gospel of St. Lovecraft, get thee to a library

You'll find mostly short stories and novellas, but there are a few full length books. H.P. Lovecraft is the true missing link between 19th and mid-to-late 20th century horror writers. The influence of Bram Stoker pales by comparison. ;)

[Bride of Cthulhu]

22. H.P. Lovecraft

there is none more evil than Cthulhu.

[Bridget Burke]

23. A little-known episode is revealed....