# I'm so stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675 "2014-07-08T23:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/1 "2014-07-08T23:30:28Z")
Not only am I completely stuck in both my projects at work, but I just found out that HP Lovecraft and HR Pufnstuf are _two completely different things_! ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/2 "2014-07-08T23:52:54Z")
Who or what is HP Lovecraft? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/3 "2014-07-08T23:57:46Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > Not only am I completely stuck in both my projects at work, but I just found out that HP Lovecraft and HR Pufnstuf are _two completely different things_! Not so different after all. Think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/4 "2014-07-09T00:03:56Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Not so different after all. Think about it. Just different aspects of the same eldritch horror. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/5 "2014-07-09T00:39:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Just different aspects of the same eldritch horror. [Verily.](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHJUrcVdJk) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/6 "2014-07-09T01:07:14Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Who or what is HP Lovecraft? Hewlett Packard used to sell small boats to amusement parks for use as a transport for paying customers for the Tunnel of Love. They were called HP Lovecraft. The idea was that your sweetie would get really scared and hang on tight to you. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/7 "2014-07-09T01:21:33Z")
OK, cheers Second Stone,I think I’m just going to tiptoe quietly backwards out of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/8 "2014-07-09T01:26:00Z")
Really, I thought it was Hewlett Packard’s softcore porn game with blocky graphics… ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/9 "2014-07-09T17:43:48Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > [Verily.](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHJUrcVdJk) Oh. My. God. _ **NOW** _ I’ve seen everything. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/10 "2014-07-09T18:17:39Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Who or what is HP Lovecraft? Intergenerational discontinuity. I know, but I never heard of the other guy. Civilization will fall, when Intergenerational discontinuity makes it impossible for two generations to communicate with each other, and all wheels will need to be reinvented over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/11 "2014-07-09T18:25:52Z")
Oh, wait. I thought H. P. Lovecraft was the ground-breaking horror-fiction writer who died in 1937, whose books we avidly read when I was in college in the 1950s as the only legitimate representatives of that emerging genre. (besides maybe Edgar Allen Poe). If that’s not who you were talking about, then I’ve never heard of EITHER of them. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/12 "2014-07-09T18:47:28Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Really, I thought it was Hewlett Packard’s softcore porn game with blocky graphics… Never got the retro aesthetic, myself. I think that’s the real reason the guy got canned. Still better than the sequel, which will probably be an online Java game. If you don’t get our jokes, [[COLOR=White] **Google** ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hurd) is your friend.[/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/13 "2014-07-09T19:33:53Z")
Now that I think about it, HR Pufnstuf (TV kids show puppet) was created by the brothers Krofft, so HR Pufnstuf + Krofft = HR Pufnkrofft -\> HP Lovecraft. Easy. Also, just about anything you could say about HP Lovecraft could easily also pertain to HR Pufnstuf, which, even as a child, I thought was pretty psychedelic for a kids show. I only really remember Pufnstuf and Witchiepoo, but there could easily have been a Cthuldlu character. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/14 "2014-07-09T19:41:24Z")
Perhaps the Sheriff had a Hound…? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/15 "2014-07-09T19:45:18Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Oh. My. God. _ **NOW** _ I’ve seen everything. Are you[sure?](https://www.google.com/search?q=cowthulhu&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS586US587&tbm=isch&imgil=YP8WDGpyMugvaM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcSwVH4NcGOTuQwh40WFSKwN6fgC0yQ_F3Y5uucVbFVb5dAwylvW%253B450%253B552%253BaYCLQ_LOq2q6ZM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fmercuryinrain.blogspot.com%25252F2008%25252F07%25252Fsigh.html&source=iu&usg=__q9GHcHMOvF-1UJgj3ai8ooN2zLg%3D&sa=X&ei=J5u9U6-KOOfmsAShwoHIDQ&ved=0CCcQ9QEwAw&biw=1072&bih=353#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=YP8WDGpyMugvaM%253A%3BaYCLQ_LOq2q6ZM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi24.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fc5%252Ffrozensawdust%252FCowthulhu-1.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmercuryinrain.blogspot.com%252F2008%252F07%252Fsigh.html%3B450%3B552) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-stupid/692675/16 "2014-07-09T19:46:32Z")
I think the answer is the San Francisco store that sold sex toys with extra durability and features like steel reinforcement, teflon coatings, ruggedized grips and heat-resistant materials. They’re known in the trade as High-Performance Love Crafts.