# Cthulu voters: will you choose Nylarthotep or Yog Sothhoth (or McCain) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654 "2008-04-24T07:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/21 "2008-04-24T15:48:50Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Fuck it, I’m marking my ballot with the [Yellow Sign.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Sign) [/QUOTE] You’re going to pee on yours too, huh? I thought I was the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/22 "2008-04-24T15:58:49Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Nice Op **FinnAgain** , but why are we in the Pit? [/QUOTE] Good point. I’ll move this unspeakable thing to the MPSIMS dimension. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/23 "2008-04-24T16:16:45Z")
I thought Lampoon threads belong in the Pit? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/24 "2008-04-24T16:27:33Z")
That’s the first I’ve heard of it, but I’ll ask around. Or, you know, you could just start insulting each other and _make_ me put it back. Save me the trouble of writing an email. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/25 "2008-04-24T16:28:10Z")
Yog Sothhoth, tentacles down. Mmm… foamy… ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/26 "2008-04-24T16:32:57Z")
Why choose a lesser evil? I’m voting for Nyarlathotep. I like his more personal campaign style. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/27 "2008-04-24T16:40:29Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] I thought Lampoon threads belong in the Pit? [/QUOTE] They do, but this one is indirect and playful enough that it seems like it’ll probably do better here. If an argument breaks out between Cthulu and Clinton supporters, we can always move it back. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/28 "2008-04-24T16:52:38Z")
**It takes a village** called Innsmouth full of half-human, half-amphibious fishmen from the depths of the ocean to raise up a hellish nightmare-inducing thing called a Shoggoth! Hillary says that while visiting R’yleh, she had to dodge the slime-dripping tentacles of a primordial Elder God, but photos depicted her calmly strolling among the non-euclidean structures. Obama says the stars are right for change…for the dark, awful, madness-inducing change of the Elder Gods returning from their long slumber! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/29 "2008-04-24T17:04:24Z")
Hah, Clinton hasn’t even managed to eat her own offspring yet. What kind of Elder God is that? And that Obama creature has allowed, what what what, two of his spawn to survive? These things don’t even stand up to the basic autopaedophagic test. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/30 "2008-04-24T17:07:14Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] If an argument breaks out between Cthulu and Clinton supporters, we can always move it back. [/QUOTE] Change “health care” to “death” in her campaign platform and I don’t think they’d have much to argue about. Obama’s black pastor hates America - but Obama’s Black Priest is not nearly vile enough, and his ceremonies are deficient in their unholiness! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/31 "2008-04-24T17:11:45Z")
Me, I’ll vote for whoever (whatever ?) will promise to keep the Hounds of Tindalos off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/32 "2008-04-24T17:26:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Me, I’ll vote for whoever (whatever ?) will promise to keep the Hounds of Tindalos off my lawn. Sign: **Curb Your House of Tindalos Violators will be Damned to the Full Extent of Total Chaos** Music by Erich Zann ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/33 "2008-04-24T18:16:09Z")
[Vote Cthulhu](http://photobucket.com/image/vote%20cthulhu/species_0001/VoteCthulhu2008.jpg?o=9) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/34 "2008-04-24T18:28:55Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] [Vote Cthulhu](http://photobucket.com/image/vote%20cthulhu/species_0001/VoteCthulhu2008.jpg?o=9) [/QUOTE] Nice try, but 3 hours late. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/35 "2008-04-24T18:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Nice Op **FinnAgain** , but why are we in the Pit? [/QUOTE] Thanks… and yeah… I wrote this out of annoyance and frustration, and since the Pit seems to be the place for parody threads, as well as for general bitching/venting, it seemed like a good thing to do. Once the Democratic bickering is over with, we can look forward to months, and months, and months of Republican-Democrat bickering, and then, whee, several more years of it, until we do it all over again. It’s been something that’s been gnawing at me (like Pickman’s models), but the latest “blah blah supporters, would you vote for blah blah”, the inceasant stream of “handicap this or that” threads, the tendency of some Dopers to jump down your throat and attempt to pull out your liver if you say anything negative about their preferred candidate (let alone have the nerve to say something positive about the other candidate), and all the rest have just made me hit my saturation point. I needed to vent some. **John** pretty much expressed the situation that I half-expect to see every time I open GD after not reading it for a little bit. [QUOTE=John Mace] Yeah, but can anyone “handicap” each voting district in every state as we approach each primary? Let’s stick a fork in Cthulu 18 times!! [/QUOTE] P.S. Almost everybody who’s responded so far has shown the characteristic Doper wit and sense of humor, I’ve gotten more than a chuckle or two from reading the responses. I tip my hat to you all. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/36 "2008-04-24T18:35:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] Nice try, but 3 hours late. [/QUOTE] Shit, I didn’t even see your link. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/37 "2008-04-24T18:46:46Z")
[QUOTE=FinnAgain] …the tendency of some Dopers to jump down your throat and attempt to pull out your liver … [/QUOTE] Hey, all I had in the fridge were some fava beans, and I needed a main course item. What do you expect me to eat with them, ham? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/38 "2008-04-24T19:05:40Z")
Pfffft. Liver theft. And people scoffed when I said this would be a natural consequence of liver registration. What’s with you elitist, limousine-Cthulucrats and your organ thieving, anyways? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/39 "2008-04-24T19:58:35Z")
[QUOTE=Pleonast] Hah, Clinton hasn’t even managed to eat her own offspring yet. What kind of Elder God is that? And that Obama creature has allowed, what what what, two of his spawn to survive? These things don’t even stand up to the basic autopaedophagic test. [/QUOTE] To the best of my knowledge, she actually has consumed most of her spawn. Can you prove she did not? The one you see is not a true spawn, but a slight modified fission clone, prepared to continue her reign of terror for another hundred years or a hundred thousand of their plans go correctly. She slipped once I tell ya, I saw the tentacle horror that is Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654/40 "2008-04-24T20:20:21Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] Don’t blame me. I voted for Hastur. [/QUOTE] Yeah, you and two other people. Waitaminute…shouldn’t that have been enough? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cthulu-voters-will-you-choose-nylarthotep-or-yog-sothhoth-or-mccain/446654.md?page=3)