Oh! HasTERT!

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Silly me. His name is “Hastert”. All along, I had been calling him “Hastur”…

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may I be the first to say :

Link???

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I assume he’s referring to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

Robin

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Yup. I’d been calling him “Dennis Hastur” and thinking his name was eerily approprite…

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well, gosh, that would have been good to know. ok, I’m ready then to comment on the OP:

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After being warned a couple of times about starting stupid, meaningless threads in the Pit, you should have learned.

Begin countdown.

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Homebrew maybe you’re getting Dogface mixed up with Golfersomenumberornother or somenumberorotherGolfer?

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Well, since it’s a stupid and meaningless thread, maybe we can use it to post stupid, meaningless things that Dennis Hastert has said so far this week.

I’ll start.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/102/wash/_Statement_of_Speaker_J_Dennis:.shtml

Well, golly, that was IMPORTANT, wasn’t it? Worthy of a whole entire press release.

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Yes, I believe I have. Sorry, Dogface. But this is inane also so you can see the source of confusion.

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Inane? Maybe. Funny? Hell yeah.

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Now I’m all confused. Isn’t there a poster name Hastur?

And isn’t it Tgolfer345324534563456 or something?

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Wow, there’s a Lott that Dogface doesn’t know.

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Part A - yes, there is a poster Hastur - which is who I thought the OP was talking about at first.

Part B. Shrug. I didn’t bother going back and looking up the user name. It didn’t matter to me. I’m sure that for said user, there’s deep and meaningful reasons for the “t” and the numbers and so on, but I gloss over it and just read it as "golfer somethin’ or other’.

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:rolleyes:

I love puns…:slight_smile:

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I believe Hastur is now Mockingbird

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So, then, is Dennis Hastert going to change his name to Dennis Mockingbert?

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Who or what is Hastur? (Besides the Doper-now-known-as-Mockingbird.)

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Hastur is one of the evil, inhuman elder gods from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, popularly known as the “Cthulhu Mythos.” Well, actually from one of his immitators; Lovecraft created one of the original “shared world” fantasies, allowing friends to borrow creatures and ideas freely from his short stories, and borrowing back from them in turn. Makes it a little hard to pin down who invented what, exactly. There’s a book, The Hastur Cycle, which collects the most important Hastur stories, starting with Ambrose Bierce, of all people. But it gives most of the credit for the eventual evolution of the character to (ironically enough) August Derleth.

Incidentally, I’d been wondering what happened to Hastur, and where this Mockingbird fellow came from all of the sudden. Now I know.

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Isn’t it ironic, or odd, or noteworthy, or whatever the word is, that Hastert the Unspeakable is the Speaker of the House?

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Hastur is now Mockingbird?!? Shit, I sure missed that memo.