# Geology or Lovecraft? You decide. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808 "2018-06-26T23:44:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [June 27, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/21 "2018-06-27T15:48:52Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > It’s a camel? Don’t get your frogs and toads (batrachians) mixed up with your Bactrian camels. It’s easy to make a frog go through the Eye of a Needle. If you use a blender first. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/22 "2018-06-27T15:59:48Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > Such alarmism. the article is just about a Supervolcano, the sort that would destroy all life on Earth. > > I bet you’re all relieved now. No eldritch horror. Just the end of life forever in the midst of ashes and fire. That would certainly produce a noisome miasma. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/23 "2018-06-27T17:08:20Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > That would certainly produce a noisome miasma. A mephitic one at that. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/24 "2018-06-28T23:50:37Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Hideously blasphemous! > > (Am I the only one who thinks Lovecraft tries too hard? I think he’d be pitted for his writing style if he posted here) From my entry in the legendary [If LotR Had Been Written By Someone Else!?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=138905) thread: > [@jayjay](#): > > If I were to tell you the true story behind the unmaking of that ring…that ring!..you would think me mad. Horrors such as are scribed in ancient tomes of eldritch evil cannot compare to the terror…the cruel, cold, braincrushing terror!..that we felt in the lair of that foul spirit which raimed itself in arachnid form, that vile scavenger, that horrid arcane leech lingering at the border’s of Sauron’s Black Land… > > -The Ring-Journal of an Anonymous Hobbit, by H.P. Lovecraft ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/25 "2018-06-29T03:41:46Z")
And then there was the [Marmite Horror](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534691)… ---
**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:** [June 29, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/26 "2018-06-29T12:36:19Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > And then there was the [Marmite Horror](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534691)… Excellent. I’d missed that one. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/27 "2018-06-29T12:39:53Z")
Me too! I hope that is listed somewhere with the rest of the board classics. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808/28 "2018-06-29T21:49:34Z")
It is. I was the one who submitted it to Threadspotting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geology-or-lovecraft-you-decide/816808.md?page=1)