# Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat \[of the Woods\] with a Thousand Young! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868 "2005-08-20T07:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/1 "2005-08-20T07:55:33Z")
Today is the birthday of [h. p. lovecraft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft), August 20, 1890 ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/2 "2005-08-20T08:10:14Z")
Cthulhu fthagn! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/3 "2005-08-20T08:31:30Z")
I suspect that means the end of the world will be exactly 7 years from today, in 2012 ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/4 "2005-08-20T08:33:23Z")
By the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred! I did not know this…My birthday’s the 21st. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/5 "2005-08-20T09:40:05Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I suspect that means the end of the world will be exactly 7 years from today, in 2012 Oooh. You’ve got the 122-year span that masonic conspiracy folks love, the Mayan eschaton of 2012, _and_ the next transit of Venus (with its implied additional “122.”) Nice. I call “dibs” on being eaten first. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/6 "2005-08-20T11:23:38Z")
I sent him a gift. (Or was I the only the one who knew he’d lived on, moving from body to body after faked his own death…) ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/7 "2005-08-20T12:26:21Z")
I’ll be sure to perform indescribable rituals (as laid out in the hideous and forbidden Necronomicon) on top of a mountain at midnight on this full moon night in honour of our macabre master. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/8 "2005-08-20T12:27:24Z")
Last year for his birthday, I was devoured by an invisible monster in the marketplace. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/9 "2005-08-20T16:06:42Z")
No wonder I was awakened at 2 in the morning, drencehed in a cold sweat, with half-remembered dreams of an eldritch, cyclopean horror above the noisome, squamous masses slogging blindly in a ruined city. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/10 "2005-08-20T16:45:36Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > No wonder I was awakened at 2 in the morning, drencehed in a cold sweat, with half-remembered dreams of an eldritch, cyclopean horror above the noisome, squamous masses slogging blindly in a ruined city. You were at my wedding? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/11 "2005-08-20T17:45:21Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Last year for his birthday, I was devoured by an invisible monster in the marketplace. Devoured? ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/12 "2005-08-20T17:47:02Z")
> [@Gerome](#): > > I’ll be sure to perform indescribable rituals (as laid out in the hideous and forbidden Necronomicon) on top of a mountain at midnight on this full moon night in honour of our macabre master. If you got the Necronomican from the library, please return it. It’s months overdue and other people are waiting for it. Like me. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/13 "2005-08-20T18:24:44Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Devoured? He got better. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/14 "2005-08-20T18:54:09Z")
In shadow haunted Innsmouth, on the ebon, sullen Miskatonic River, the squat, scaly citizens huddle in fear neath the ivy-bedecked walls of the only steeple crowned structure in this benighted hamlet. They are impelled there by the eldritch heritage that lurks in their cold, sluggish blood. Their gravelly voices whisper ia a horrid unison: Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dread overlord, happy birthday to you. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/15 "2005-08-20T20:02:42Z")
What phase of the Moon is it, tonight? No _special_ reason to ask…just askin. Also, can anybody give me a lift to Providence? And the load of a spade? No _special_ reason. Just askin. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/16 "2005-08-20T20:19:06Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > What phase of the Moon is it, tonight? > > No _special_ reason to ask…just askin. > > Also, can anybody give me a lift to Providence? And the load of a spade? > No _special_ reason. > > Just askin. Good question. That reminds me…I need to get some more silver bullets. My stocks are running low lately. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/17 "2005-08-21T04:32:37Z")
I survived for one more year. Last night I heard the antediluvian Old Ones whispering softly in the walls of my house, where the angles are wrong. Unable to sleep due to the half-seen, half-guessed visions of Old Ones, I chased them away by singing “Pack Up Your Troubles In An Old Kit Bag” by Erich Zann. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/18 "2005-08-21T06:49:18Z")
> [@marque elf](#): > > In shadow haunted Innsmouth, on the ebon, sullen Miskatonic River, the squat, scaly citizens huddle in fear neath the ivy-bedecked walls of the only steeple crowned structure in this benighted hamlet. They are impelled there by the eldritch heritage that lurks in their cold, sluggish blood. Their gravelly voices whisper ia a horrid unison: > > Happy birthday to you, > Happy birthday to you, > Happy birthday dread overlord, > happy birthday to you. That was hysterical. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ia-ia-shub-niggurath-the-black-goat-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young/317868/19 "2005-08-21T11:50:57Z")
Send more ice, please.