Worship the colossal squid, puny humans!!!

**martin** · 15-09-2005, 06:45 AM

Not me, squire, but he's ace

**Woebot** · 15-09-2005, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by confucius

that is all very nice and dandy... but great Mr. Sothoth, the funniest bunniest of all them all, do you have anything to say regarding Cthulhu the Great Collosal Squid God???

(I bet Yoghurt is one of the other regulars here under a different alias... matt? hmmm...)

i know who the yog is. i discovered the grisly fact from matching his IP address. but it aint me!

agatha christie style i can reveal that the yog is lurking among us on this very thread!

**Melchior** · 15-09-2005, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by WOEBOT

agatha christie style i can reveal that the yog is lurking among us on this very thread!

Presumably you mean in his original poster guise, rather than his Black Dairy Product With A Thousand Sons guise?

**magic pendulum** · 15-09-2005, 09:24 AM

did you know Lovecraft had an intense loathing for seafood?

**rewch** · 15-09-2005, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by WOEBOT

i know who the yog is. i discovered the grisly fact from matching his IP address. but it aint me!

agatha christie style i can reveal that the yog is lurking among us on this very thread!

who is it? oh... go on... tell us... or is it going to be un-agatha christie-style/more like real life & we'll never know?

**zhao** · 15-09-2005, 03:03 PM

ah ha. I knew it. my hunter instincts told me that something was amiss when the elusive Yog turned up with such swiftness... AS IF HE WERE HERE ALL ALONG. and it didn't take a master of deductive reasoning (not that I'm not one) to conclude that he is indeed the misleading alternate guise of someone else whom we all (think we) know and trust.

it's not martin... not matt... pretty sure it's not Mr. Eden (hope I'm not making a deadly mistake here. but my spider sense tells me Eden is OK). it would be too perfect if it was Melchior... hmmm...

thus far I can see 3 posibilities: Yog -

A. consults a middle english dictionary each time before he posts
B. is some sort of dodgy scholar of history
C. is a Dungeons and Dragons roll playing freak
(like this guy: http://www.viceland.com/issues/v12n6...e_dark_001.php )

does anyone you guys know fit any of these descriptions?

**michael** · 15-09-2005, 09:41 PM

Role players with an interest in history?? Seems unlikely.

Happy to leave the mystery alone, I reckon.

I've found a great fact sheet on the giant and colossal squids. In there the giant squid does have the huge luminescent eyes, whereas the colossal squid (the one in that BBC article) does not. See fig. 8 for an example.

Don't forget to look at fig. 4 for the BARBED TENTACLE CLUBS OF THE COLOSSAL SQUID!!

**Melchior** · 16-09-2005, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by confucius

A. consults a middle english dictionary each time before he posts
B. is some sort of dodgy scholar of history
C. is a Dungeons and Dragons roll playing freak

Holy shit. It's not actually me, as my sense of humour doesn't run that way but I've just finished my MA in history and ... I am a current roleplayer.

There, it's out and I've said it.

I've never done an alt on a board, but maybe I should start?

**rewch** · 16-09-2005, 03:24 PM

found i squid text whatever you call it ;-=

found 1 smiley

& in a fit of boredom/inspiration made one:

**john eden** · 16-09-2005, 03:48 PM

I love you, Rewch - may you find your reward in colossal squid heaven!

**mms** · 16-09-2005, 03:55 PM

i reckn its luka

**rewch** · 16-09-2005, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by john eden

I love you, Rewch - may you find your reward in colossal squid heaven!

why thank you... certainly looking foward to the great cephalopod hunting grounds in the sky... (suppose that should be sea)... don't know how to get the powers that be to ?include? it