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From: mgrossman@hamp.hampshire.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: News Flash! Lost vikings...Gnoph-Keh ruins!
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:55:54 GMT
Organization: Hampshire College
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	Last night I was watching one of those "In Search of..." programs from
the seventies (narrated by Leonard Nimoy) and I believe I discovered something
of great importance to mythos observers.  The program was called "Lost Vikings"
and was about the fate of a viking colony in Greenland that had been founded by
Eric the Red in about 900 AD, and had existed for a while, and then had lost 
contact with Iceland (the nearest outpost of viking civilization).  When 
Greenland was rediscovered, the colony had vanished, leaving only thier
buildings.  When the church graveyard was excavated, archeologists discovered 
the skeletons of "cripples, dwarves, and other degenerate products of incest".
And of course, we all know what happens in those little, isolated, incestuos
communities, don't we?  One possible origin for those devil worshipping 
Eskimos.  What was the real reason Eric the Red was exiled from Iceland?

	But there's more.  Apparently, in the northern region of Greenland 
archeologists had discovered the ruins of a huge longhouse, surrounded by 
smaller foundations for permanent tents of caribou hide, and enormous beacons.
The guy on the program claimed these were built by vikings, but I think they
probably had a much older and more sinister origin.  There are three possible 
candidates: the men of Lomar, the Hyperboreans, and the "hairy cannibal Gnoph-
Kehs".  I think we can rule out Lomar, simply because they didn't live in 
longhouses;  they were city builders.  The Hyperboreans, according to Robert
E. Howards "The Hyborian Age" were skilled in stonework as well, and lived
in walled compounds, so they probably aren't the ones either.  That leaves the
Gnoph-Kehs.  A caribou skin-roofed longhouse (actually how do we know it was
caribou skin anyway?  They were cannibals...) was probably the best they could
do.  So we now have direct archeological evidence of a mythos race.  Probably
the "beacons" were altars of some type.  It's all very exciting, and I look
forward eagerly to further revalations from the frozen north...
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: Supercalifrajalisticexpialidocious
Reply-To: uphrrmk@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:15:00 GMT

I've had some folks asking me for the 'Supercalifrajalisticexpialodocious
Incantation Song' and now that I'm back, I will gladly post it.  Enjoy!!!


Chorus:Supercalifrajalisticexpialidocious;
       If you say it loud enough, you'll call upon Cthulhu!
       We know Julie Andrews is Cthulhu's Great High Priestess,
       Supercalifrajalisticexpialidocious!

       (disgusting Elder God noises of your choice)

       It started on a saturday
       When I was just a lad;
       I was watching "Loony Tunes"
       With acn e that was bad;
       Then Daffy started writhing
       Just like he was possessed,
       Choked out this tune,tore off his head
       And made an awful mess!

       (Chorus)

       I set off in a rowboat
       To find the Elder God;
       I found his pal, Yog-Sothoth,
       Who was just an ugly sod.
       He chewed up all my crew-mates,
       My captain, and my dog;
       And then he burped, excused himself
       and drank up all my Blog*.

*(1 can lemonade, 1 can orange juice, 1 can limeade, 4 cans vodka or 151 rum,
1/2 can of grenadine juice.  Serve at Minicon.)

       (Chorus)

       When I finally found Cthulhu,
       He was perched upon a throne,
       Tentacles a-wavin'
       Letting out a ghastly moan.
       It seems that he had heartburn
       from wolfing down Ed Meese,
       I gave him Pepto-Bismol, his burblings to decrease.

       (Chorus)

       I found that I was lucky,
       for some did what I did,
       And STILL ended up as Sushi
       to the gialt, bat-winged squid.
       And some he blackened Cajun-Style
       and others he ate raw;
       Cthulhu shoveled thousands 
       in the Squirming, wriggling maw!!!

       (Chorus)

       So if you call the Elder God
       Bring cattle four or five.
       'cos if he gets enough to eat
       He may leave you alive.
       But if the Squid wants seconds, 
       it really is a shame;
       For then you have to call upon He Who Must Not Be Named!!!
       (You mean HASTUUR?)

       (Chorus)

       We worship Julie andrews,
       We wear long robes and pray;
       We watch "The Sound of Music" nearly every single day!
       We chant to "Mary Poppins"
       And Boo at Dick Van Dyke.
       ('Cos he's the only Elder God we never really liked!!!!)

       (Chorus)

                                     Imagine Cthulhu with a Happy Helmet!!!
                                      (Shudder!)

                                       La Mort.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:35:54 EST
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Do you believe...(Nope)
 <C14nAF.KG2@news.iastate.edu> <105718@netnews.upenn.edu>
 <1993Jan20.173348.5447@athena.mit.edu>
 <1993Jan20.141640.1@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> <93022.123547DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>

 OKAY THEN, it was a pathetic joke.

 you had your chance!
From: vocilka@cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Vocilka)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: ess-tset
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:22:32 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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cwynne@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Colin J. Wynne) writes:

[Various thoughts about the use of 'ess-tset' (actually written as sz if you
don't have it on your typewriter) deleted.]

And now the definite truth about the use of the sz ;).

1) sz is written in a _medial sound_ after a long vowel or
a double-vowel (i.e. two vowels, such as ie,eu,..).

2) sz is written in the _final sound_ of all root syllables having a ss or sz
in the medial sound.

>Thus, unauBrechliche is perfectly acceptable.  As for the meaning of the
Sorry, no. It is only 'unaussprechliche'.
>word, lautsprechen is more closely translated as 'to pronounce'.  Now, I
'lautsprechen' does not exist, you mean 'aussprechen'.
>saw the name 'Unaussprechliche Kulten' before I read their translation of
>it, and I had taken it to mean something closer to "unmentionable cults"
>than eithe unnamable or unpronouncable or anything else.
The meaning of 'unaussprechlich' is unutterable or unspeakable, unmentionable
translates into 'unaussprechbar'.
The German title of the book would be 'Unaussprechbare Kulte'. 

-frank
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From: bourp00@DMI.USherb.CA (PIERRE BOURBONNAIS)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: History of Lovecraft
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:04:17 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique

I noticed there was a lot of talk about FAQ, and LOVECRAFT vision of
horror, and beleiving in supernatural, etc.

I have written an history of HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT at home, a while
ago. It's in french, but if it interest anyone out there, I could trans-
late it. It could help for a FAQ about LOVECRAFT.

Aboout the MYTHOS, there is only a little in my history. Maybe you
could had some more. I'm specialized in LOVECRAFT in general, not in
CTHULHU only.

Also, with this history of LOVECRAFT, I wrote an essay, really short, on
LOVECRAFTIAN horror, its principles, its aspects. I also talk about
how LOVECRAFT visualized all of his stories, etc.

If it interest any of you, e-mail me please, or leave a note on the
newsgroup. If there are enough reponses, I'll mail it next week or
so, depending on the time I take translating it.

Have a good all of you.

Pierre BOURP00@DMI.USHERB.CA :^)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:27:29 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <7wJ1XB1w165w@shakala.com> melchar@shakala.com (Barbara Haddad) writes:

>> >How about giving it a Cthulhu Mythos name. You can call it Yog-Sothoth,
>> >which means that when you go outside to call it, you can excuse yourself
>> >with, "Excuse me, I have to go and invoke Yog-Sothoth." If you train it
>> >to respond to "Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin" you'll raise some eyebrows.
>> 
>> A friend of mine has a son named "Bevin John Nyarlathotep Dunlevy".
>> 
>> (I don't like using strange names personally. My cat is named "0x1B".
>> Nice, standard, ASCII name.)
>> 
>        How about 'Snyarlathotep'?

Not Cthulhoid names, but:

A friend of mine has twin cats called Hiss and Fiend.  If they were mine
I would have called them "cat:instantiation no.1" and "cat:instantiation
no.2".  I mentioned this to a friend of mine and he said he would have
named them "0" and "1".  I think I prefer that naming scheme....

ObCthulhu: (plagiarised from Abdul Alhazred's Boffo Book)

See the goatherd.
The goatherd is out in the fields.
His goat has run away.
See him calling:
"Here goat!  Here goat!"
 
See the 1000 black candles.....

(maybe it'd look good on a t-shirt).
From: crisper@cats.ucsc.edu (Daniel Curtis Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Abdul al-Hazred's Big Boffo Book of Daemons.
Date: 21 Jan 1993 09:11:48 GMT
Organization: The Armory, Santa Cruz
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In article <sprooney.727436334@unix1.tcd.ie> sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney) writes:
>
>Abdul al-Hazred's Big Boffo Book of Daemons.
>
>	by Jay Mackley.
>
  [contents deleted to protect your sanity]
>
>
>-- Just thought you might appreciate it.
> SOisnm

Looks similar to the hand-printed text I accquired from a certain rare
 bookseller in London last year: a 1725 edition of the Little Golden
 Goblin Books primer on the Elder Gods. My favorite verse was

See R'lyeh
See R'lyeh rise
Rise, R'lyeh, rise
Yaaaaiiiiigh!

	--The Elder Dan
From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:19:43 -0600
Organization: Spiders From Mars net
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sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes:

>How about giving it a Cthulhu Mythos name. You can call it Yog-Sothoth,
>which means that when you go outside to call it, you can excuse yourself
>with, "Excuse me, I have to go and invoke Yog-Sothoth." If you train it
>to respond to "Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin" you'll raise some eyebrows.

A friend of mine has a son named "Bevin John Nyarlathotep Dunlevy".

(I don't like using strange names personally. My cat is named "0x1B".
Nice, standard, ASCII name.)


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Xref: sparky alt.horror.cthulhu:1159 alt.discordia:769 alt.religion.kibology:6033
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 00:15:20 EST
From: <IO01255@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.discordia,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: What the world needs


In article <1993Jan25.021718.24697@fuug.fi>, an2192@anon.penet.fi (Lee Harvey
Oswald Smith) says:
>I have been thinking, and have come up with the answer to the question of
>what the world needs.
>It's  (wait for it.....)
>
>
>                        STUFFED SHOGGOTHS !!!!!
>
>That's right, soft toy _things_. Hideous, loathsome elder abominations that
>you can hug when you go to bed. (The deluxe models can go "Tekeli-Li" when
>you squeeze them)
>Now, at last, one would be able to honestly answer the question, "Have you
>hugged your shoggoth today" in the affirmative.

ACTUALLY, I have seen an ad for soft, adorable (???) stuffed Cthulhu's!
The are hand made by some twisted soul that'll make the horror from the
deep in any color that you wish. (they reccomend deep green or purple
though)  Just think... Every night as you go to bed, you can havesoft
Cthulhu nestled beside your head.  (It'd feel better than the lead
figurine of the Great One that I sleep next to now...)
IA! IA!CTHULHU FTHAGN!    ..............Viking
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: szetlan@brahms.udel.edu (Scott David Zetlan)
Subject: Re: The Golden Bough
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:08:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.092055.21242@ugle.unit.no> tore.skogseth@avh.unit.no (Tore Skogseth) writes:
>For all CoC-players: If you need inspiration to write a scenario, you should
>read The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. It describes magic rituals and
>beliefs in cultures all over the world. If you need rituals, they are sometimes
>tthoroughly describe, and there is a register with references to all sorts of
>rituals in the back of the book... Human sacrifice? You got it!
>
>Tore


Actually, I have found that the best scenarios are the ones that don't contain
too much magic at all.  Elaborate rituals are nice, but my feeling about the
true Lovecraftian horror is that it is based on the fact that what seems ordinary is usually not so, that the horror of this world lies not in the unknown bu in the piecing together of separate pieces of the known.

Inspiration for my CoC scenarios has always  come from everyday occurrences, things that happen on the news, or  just plain boring, humdrum events.  I enjoy scaring the stuffings out of my investigators by making the neighborhood into a den of horror, and believe me, they will never look at their hometowns in the same way.

Look around: the greatest horror lies in what you think you already know.

	Scott
From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: HP Lovecraft - Band of the 60's
Date: 26 Jan 1993 02:19:36 -0600
Organization: Spiders From Mars net
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tnielson@kirk (THORIN NIELSON) writes:

>But one interesting thing my Dad owns is two LPs by a band called
>
>HP LOVECRAFT!!!
>
>Some of it is rather cool, some of it is rather stupid, but it is all  
>probaly rather rare because I never see any other releases of their  
>albums.

Ah - but is it as rare as the album I have by a French jazz band
named "Yog Sothoth"?? (Fantastic album, BTW.)

While we're on the subject.... there's a Vangelis album with Cthulhu
on the cover. It's called "The Dragon" and Mr. Cth rising out of the
waters, with R'lyeh behind him, is unmistakable.


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From: bourp00@DMI.USherb.CA (PIERRE BOURBONNAIS)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 27 Jan 93 04:04:22 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique

>sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
>
>>How about giving it a Cthulhu Mythos name. You can call it Yog-Sothoth,
>>which means that when you go outside to call it, you can excuse yourself
>>with, "Excuse me, I have to go and invoke Yog-Sothoth." If you train it
>>to respond to "Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin" you'll raise some eyebrows.
>
Well, if I had a cat, I would surely name him IRANON, from LOVECRAFT best
story: THE QUEST OF IRANON.
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu,alt.discordia,alt.religion.kibology
From: C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Re: What the world needs
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia, U.S.A.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:23:58 GMT
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In article <1993Jan25.021718.24697@fuug.fi>
an2192@anon.penet.fi (Lee Harvey Oswald Smith) writes:
 
>I have been thinking, and have come up with the answer to the question of
>what the world needs.
>
>It's  (wait for it.....)
>
>
>                        STUFFED SHOGGOTHS !!!!!
>
>That's right, soft toy _things_. Hideous, loathsome elder abominations that
>you can hug when you go to bed. (The deluxe models can go "Tekeli-Li" when
>you squeeze them)
>
>Now, at last, one would be able to honestly answer the question, "Have you
>hugged your shoggoth today" in the affirmative.
 
Hmm, that's not a bad idea. Oddly enough, it almost exists. You can order
stuffed toy Cthulhu dolls from The Unspeakable Oath. Sort of like Cabbage
Patch Cthulhus. You can stick your finger in their mouth and they'll
dangle there.
 
Rev
From: 6500njk@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Nicholas Kibre)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: horror music
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:00:48 GMT
Distribution: alt.horror.cthulhu

Those whose musical tastes tend towards a classical bent might
Sibelius' Fourth Symphony.  I will quote briefly from the text
included with my CD:

"The opening bars of the Adagio first movement are to be played,
in Sibelius' words, "Hard, like destiny." The movement's main theme,
and the generative theme of the entire work, the strange tritone motif,
rises as if looming up out of the darkness; it hangs weightless in
space..."

"Once again, in place of the tonic-dominant relationship, Sibelius
employs the tritone.  The classical, mischieviously aggressive
games Sibelius plays in the movement are tempered with strains of
the gloom and spectral quality most often associated with Gothic
romance."

A genuinely creepy piece of music.  Find out why they call
tritones demonic....

--
Das ist nicht todt, was Zeit nicht kann verderben; 
Nach fremden Altern kann der Tod selbst sterben. 
   -- Nach der Nekronomikonuebersetzung von Olaus Wormius
6500njk@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu --- Nicholas Kibre
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
From: buehler@sybil.mit.edu (Royce Buehler)
Subject: Re: Do you believe... (Was Re: Where's Arkham?)
Originator: buehler@sybil
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:52:38 GMT


In article <1jsr0jINN2oo@lynx.unm.edu> chumbach@carina.unm.edu (Charles S. Humbach) writes:
 >In article <1993Jan20.173348.5447@athena.mit.edu> centry@athena.mit.edu (Jae H Nam) writes:
 >>So much for my dumb theory. :) Thanks for all of the replies.
 >>It seems the general consensus is that Arkham is Salem.
 >>
 >    How could Arkham, a river city be Salem, a port city. Besides
 >H.P. mentions Salem in his stories.

For example, Dreams in the Witch House tells us in so many words that the 
previous owner of the witch house had fled from Salem to Arkham for 
safe haven.

A further clue comes from Color Out of Space, which begins "West of Arkham,
the hills rise wild..." This means Arkham must be placed in central or
western Massachusetts rather than in the relatively flat east.

The town of Amherst, which does have a small river as well as a university,
could therefore be a candidate. If, though, as a previous poster plausibly 
suggested, the town-eating reservoir in that story was the Quabbin,
Amherst would be too far west. Arkham would then lie among the woodsy,
unfrequented back roads between Quabbin Reservoir and Worcester. This
is the one region of the state where you could deposit *several* ominous
hamlets without having them come to anyone's attention for decades. 
-- 
Royce Buehler	buehler@space.mit.edu	(617)-253-9766
	Many things do not happen as they ought.
	Most things do not happen at all.
	It is for the conscientious historian to correct these defects.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:35:47 EST
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Do you believe...(Nope)
 <C14nAF.KG2@news.iastate.edu> <105718@netnews.upenn.edu>
 <1993Jan20.173348.5447@athena.mit.edu>
 <1993Jan20.141640.1@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>

>The weirdest thing I've ever seen was this huge silvery saucer moving silently
>over my hometown.  I literally did not belive my eyes.  The sun was glaring
>off it strongly and I kept blinking and shaking my head waiting for the
>saucer to resolve itself into something that made sense.  The saucer flew
>behind a building, which I ran around to get another look at the flying
>object.
>
>It was finally close enough to make out the silver plane that was flying by.
>
>It had been flying at just the right angle to where I was standing so that the
>wings lined up with the fusalage and the reflected sunlight washed out the
>details.  The plane was far enough away that I didn't hear the engine noise,  d
>an
>was flying low enough that my sence of perspective taged it as close and as
>large as the building it appeared to be hovering over.  If I had been standing
>a few yards in any direction from the spot I was, none of these factors would
>have been properly lined up to give the unshakeable impression of an alien
>spacecraft.
>
    Actually, this was probably a secret Air Force test flight
    of some kind.

>I went through a phase where I tried to find the Necronomicon or "forbiden"
>books of dark secrets.  But I found 99% of the stuff out there to be as boring
>as day old snot.  New Age Hippie wannabe crystal healing and unreadable (but
>cool looking) mideval blackletter treatisies on roots that cure the auge.
>
>And the other 1% ?  I wouldn't do you the diservice of telling you and deny
>you
>the thrill of the hunt.  And besides, anyone not stable enough to have the
>patients to find that elusive 1%, I'd rather they not be reading *those*
>books.

  It's not a question of stability/instability ; for me at least, it's
 a question of having the time.  I don't.  For the next year and a half,
 I'll have something pressing to accomplish about all the time, and
 after that, I'll be working, probably a lot.  Why don't you just
 forget the thrill of the hunt, and then use a spoiler message of some
 sort?  I'd like to know what's out there, assuming this is not just
 a joke.


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From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac N. Truder)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Help me name my cat
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:41:46 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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 > >I think HPL had a cat named Bubastis, though. (WATCHMEN, anyone?)
 >                                 ^^
 >                 And I thought Alan Moore just made it up.
 >                 Should have known better :-)

Bubastis was one name for the Ancient Egyptian cat-god(dess?).
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From: d91-noa@tekn.hj.se (ANDERS NORDSTRM)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Cthulhu pictures
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:28:07 GMT
Organization: H|gskolan i J|nk|ping

Greetings

Is there anyone who knows of ANY cthulhu-related pictures (gif,tif,jpg,pcx,
wpg,bmp) ??? It would be really nice to download a few Lovecraftian horrors 
to my HD...

Thanks in advance

Anders Nordstrom
d91-noa@tekn.hj.se


PS  In Sweden (where I live), the CoC is by far more popular than D&D.
From: chumbach@carina.unm.edu (Charles S. Humbach)
Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Do you believe... (Was Re: Where's Arkham?)
Date: 24 Jan 1993 01:22:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <1993Jan20.173348.5447@athena.mit.edu> centry@athena.mit.edu (Jae H Nam) writes:
>So much for my dumb theory. :) Thanks for all of the replies.
>It seems the general consensus is that Arkham is Salem.
>
    How could Arkham, a river city be Salem, a port city. Besides
H.P. mentions Salem in his stories.