# That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479 "2006-08-20T19:53:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **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:** [August 22, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/21 "2006-08-22T11:43:40Z")
I just watched **The Call of Cthulhu** last night. Very good flick, especially considering the limitations of the budget – it actually _helped_ when the effects weren’t good, because it made it look more “period”. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/22 "2006-08-22T15:25:52Z")
Good to know this! I hastur go out and celebrate! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/23 "2006-08-22T16:16:50Z")
[QUOTE=pesch] …and the Library of America saw fit [to preserve your words.](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931082723/102-5148006-1684941?v=glance&n=283155) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Amazon’s Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)] curvilinear hieroglyphs, greenish soapstones, tarry stickiness, twilight abysses, nameless scent, spiky image, shunned house, twilit grotto, elder things, membraneous wings, attic laboratory, hill noises, fishy odour, domed hills, buzzing voice, scientific zeal, frantic note, lurking fear, blasted heath, captive mind, slanting wall, frantic letter, grocery boy [/quote] And that was just in the first paragraph! ---
**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 22, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/24 "2006-08-22T16:18:52Z")
[QUOTE= Amazon’s Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)] curvilinear hieroglyphs, greenish soapstones, tarry stickiness, twilight abysses, nameless scent, spiky image, shunned house, twilit grotto, elder things, membraneous wings, attic laboratory, hill noises, fishy odour, domed hills, buzzing voice, scientific zeal, frantic note, lurking fear, blasted heath, captive mind, slanting wall, frantic letter, grocery boy] [/QUOTE] “Grocery boy”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/25 "2006-08-22T16:51:27Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] “Grocery boy”? 😕 [/QUOTE] You’ve never seen one shambling, like at the end of its break? ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/26 "2006-08-22T17:13:13Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Not exactly. [Only](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/) [two](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/) really good ones. The others were unspeakable eldritch necrophagous blasphemous abominations from the deepest tenebrous crevices of elder night, and not in a **good** way, either! [/QUOTE] But were they nacreous, fungous, and/or flabby? I want to say I love you all, this is making me laugh like a lunatic - especially the dreaded Cruller Out of Space. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/27 "2006-08-22T17:58:22Z")
I was going to post to this thread, but then I was driven mad simply by looking at the OP… ---
**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:** [August 22, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/28 "2006-08-22T18:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > “Grocery boy”? Shame on you! For that, go reread “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and underline all the scenes in which the grocery boy appears. Nobody recalls the work of Lovecraft’s cousin, H.P. Thirtyfivecraft, and his near-miss horror stories: \*\*The Colorado Space The Stumbler in Darkness Pac Man’s Model The Doom that Came from Sarnoff The Strange Case of C.K. Dexter Haven The Mall of Cthulhu Insulation in the Walls The Dunwitch Humor \*\* ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/29 "2006-08-22T20:25:28Z")
What is it about HPL threads that produces the funniest writing on the SDMB? I should set up an alert, so that I get an email notifying me whenever a post includes the words “eldritch” or “fhtagn”. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/30 "2006-08-22T20:35:20Z")
**Adam West – Career Re-Animator At the Mountains of Mudness** ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/31 "2006-08-22T22:23:06Z")
When one of my students speaks of Lovecraft, I _know_ the kid’s reading level just jumped to “11th grade.” And I teach in a middle school. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/32 "2006-08-22T22:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=Master Wang-Ka] When one of my students speaks of Lovecraft, I _know_ the kid’s reading level just jumped to “11th grade.” And I teach in a middle school. [/QUOTE] So, speaking figuratively, one could say they’ve learned to walk when they ought to crawl? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/33 "2006-08-23T02:38:45Z")
If “The Mall of Cthluhu” doesn’t inspire someone to write it, I’ll have to do it myself. Let’s see, where did I put that Incantation of Horrifying, Mind-Numbing Peril? ---
**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 23, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/34 "2006-08-23T13:16:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] So, speaking figuratively, one could say they’ve learned to walk when they ought to crawl? [/QUOTE] If it’s Lovecraft they’ve been reading, the correct word _could_ be _“slithering”_. but perhaps I digress. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479/35 "2006-08-23T16:55:51Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] Am I the only one who thought this would be about the Metallica classic “The Thing That Should Not Be”? (Yes, I know the song’s based on Lovecraft.) [/QUOTE] I thought of that right after thinking of the cover of Iron Maiden’s _Live After Death_. \m/:mad:\m/ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-is-not-dead-which-can-eternal-lie-and-with-strange-aeons-even-death-may-die/369479.md?page=1)