# DreadCthulhu's gone? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 3, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495 "2004-01-03T18:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/21 "2004-01-03T22:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by agiantdwarf \* > \*\*He joked in my thread about my brother’s attempted suicide. I won’t miss him. \*\* I remember that. One of the most disgusting comments I have ever witnessed on this board. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*So your brother has tried to kill himself twice, and hasn’t succeeded? He must feel like such a failure. > DUCKS AND RUNS \> \> \> > > Seriously, I am sorry and hope he gets better. \*\* What a fucking charmer. I can’t believe people found that dork amusing. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/22 "2004-01-03T23:08:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirrored Indigo Shadows \* > \*\* the serious conversation. \*\* 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/23 "2004-01-04T06:24:31Z")
I won’t miss him, not after how he joked in a thread I started, about how he stepped on a kitten and found it interesting watching it cough up blood. As others have said, good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/24 "2004-01-04T06:34:13Z")
Yep, that’s the one I remember as well, **Baker**. I suggested he exhibited traits of your run-of-the-mill psychopath, and was promptly jumped upon by a dozen posters. Being as it was quite early in my postings, I didn’t understand the unwritten “don’t attempt to diagnose insane posters” rule. So, I’ll rephrase: he’s not a psycho, just a fucking evil excuse for a human being. And good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/25 "2004-01-04T06:37:07Z")
He could be funny. But he was a jerk, and he insisted on being a jerk. That’s what got him banned. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/26 "2004-01-04T06:52:31Z")
Wow. Thank you Mods! He was one of my least favorite posters. He never had anything to add to a thread, he’d just pop in and say something about Cthulhu, or (worse), he’d simply type "1920’s style death-(insert topic of thread). I hated that crap! ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/27 "2004-01-04T07:39:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shijinn \* > \*\* > > and who’s gonna pick up the slack when tentacles are needed? … \*\* Whatever happen to the Cooler of Death? ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/28 "2004-01-04T09:27:11Z")
A guy who made a habit of posting about eating people’s pets called himself **DreadCthulhu**? More like **DreadALF**. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/29 "2004-01-04T14:05:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shijinn \* > **most of them seem to be in-character and weren’t meant to rile anyone up, after all, we’re talking about _Cthulhu_ right??** Um, no. That’s one of the (many) things that annoyed me about that poster. Cthulhu (in the books) was a vastly powerful inhuman creature, almost a force of nature little concerned with men and their lives (IIRC). But judging by **DreadCthulhu’s** behavior, Cthulhu was a not-terribly-bright 8 year old boy who liked to try to say things that shocked other people and who liked pulling wings off flies. It would be like having a poster named **Sauron** \* running around, popping into threads shrieking “I’m SAURON! YOU’RE A WEINER-HEAD! NANNY-NEENER-BOO-BOO!” and then, when people look at him funny, responding with “But I’m _Sauron_! Don’t you get it?” There is no obligation to take on the personna of your username, (and frankly, we’d rather you didn’t, thanks), but if you must, at least do it _right_. Fenris \*Yes, I know there is one. He doesn’t pretend he’s the “real” Sauron, and he’s a cool guy anyway so this doesn’t apply. ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/30 "2004-01-04T15:15:14Z")
C’mon Fenris, don’t make me put the Gleipnir back on you… No, I’m NOT going to put my hand in your mouth! As for DreadCthulhu, I couldn’t really take his schtick seriously. He lived in Idaho! A land-locked incarnation of the Great Cthulhu? I think not… ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/31 "2004-01-04T15:25:33Z")
Ah, but what about the frightful _geometries_ of those eldritch creatures, the _potatoes_? The _Necronomicon_ of the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, describes them as “full of eyes round about them, before and behind”… ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/32 "2004-01-04T16:36:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Already in Use \* > Ah, but what about the frightful _geometries_ of those eldritch creatures, the _potatoes_? The _Necronomicon_ of the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred, describes them as “full of eyes round about them, before and behind”… No, no, no. The Chthonians rule all things subterranean, including the vile potato. Their giant wormlike servants, the dholes, keep the soil mushy and non-Euclidean so the evil weed can prosper and produce it’s deadly fruits. They are not fit for human consumption, but the Quaylian Heretics have managed to keep the Truth from unsuspecting mankind. Fries, chips, mush… Mr. Potato Head, it’s all a big lie. And don’t get me started about tomatoes! Or as I call them: The Blood-Apples of Shub-Niggurath… ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/33 "2004-01-04T16:42:24Z")
eh, i thought more people might miss him. guess i’m wrong. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by \*\*Polycarp \*\* > … In the Pit thread dedicated to him and his insistence on role playing, the **Great and Terrible Lynn Bodoni** warned him that he was on thin ice. About six posts later, he did one of his “You’ll be eaten first” posts, and was shown the door. … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495/34 "2004-01-04T17:26:45Z")
Since he’s not here to defend himself, and since the questions regarding his sudden demise have been answered, this thread has served its purpose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dreadcthulhus-gone/222495.md?page=1)