I’ve been rereading my electrobook version of The Complete H. P. Lovecraft, and just realized that there’s a groaner at the center of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In TSOI, the coastal town of Innsmouth is being covertly taken over by fishmen from the deeps.
The only hotel in town is The Gilman. :smack::rolleyes::dubious:
That Howard, what a card!
By any chance did it cost a fin per night to stay there?
aaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh
I’ll sojourn there for the halibut
That’s near Cape Cod, aye?
I was going to add some more fish puns but I think I’ll take care of everything at once by posting a link to this song.
cover blown, goes looking for new material
Was the hotel run by Ethel Merman?
That woman had sole.
“You’ll be swell, you’ll be great!
I’ll eat this whole fish on a plate!”
Maybe, in the Lovecraft story, the fishmen attack from the deeps after she sells her sole to the devil.
Wouldn’t that be the devil ray?
Devil Ray plays the piano at the hotel.
Geez, it was like I dropped a torch into a field of dry grass…:dubious:
Stay away from the Devil’s Reefer he sells, though. That stuff left me feeling squamous and rugose for three days.
Devil ray told me he’s going trolling by the local school. I didn’t like the imbrications.
You didn’t realize that your thread title could be read as an imperative?
You are all going straight to shell for these puns.
At the end of the movie version of the story, the camera pans to a wall at the hotel covered with framed photos of Ethel Merman singing and performing down the years. The camera slowly zooms in on one old black-and-white photo with the following caption: “Ethel Merman sings with… Devil Ray & The Fishmen.” The credits roll.
Speaking of which, the drama dept. is putting on a production of Porgy and Bass.
We should dolphinitely scale back on the fish puns. You all should walk the plankton.