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Apologies to those who are seeing this more than once, but it's too awesome not to post about. Vladimir Putin answers a few of the Russian public's most burning questions:
Asked about the possible awakening of the giant mythical octopus Cthulhu, the fourth-most popular question among the more than 150,000 sent to Putin, he said that he believed something more serious was behind the question. Cthulhu was invented by novelist H.P. Lovecraft and was said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Putin said he viewed mysterious forces with suspicion and advised those who took them seriously to read the Bible, Koran or other religious books.
(emphasis mine, we'll pass over the reference to a "giant mythical octopus"...)
Let me just rephrase that for clarity and awesomeness: The fourth most popular question that Russia wants to its president to address is nothing more or less than "What about Cthulhu?" I'm not sure if this is made more or less awesome by the fact that Cthulhu is evidently an item of slightly less concern to the citizens of Russia than that giant Border Patrol robots. God bless the Russians, I say.
Asked about the possible awakening of the giant mythical octopus Cthulhu, the fourth-most popular question among the more than 150,000 sent to Putin, he said that he believed something more serious was behind the question. Cthulhu was invented by novelist H.P. Lovecraft and was said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Putin said he viewed mysterious forces with suspicion and advised those who took them seriously to read the Bible, Koran or other religious books.
(emphasis mine, we'll pass over the reference to a "giant mythical octopus"...)
Let me just rephrase that for clarity and awesomeness: The fourth most popular question that Russia wants to its president to address is nothing more or less than "What about Cthulhu?" I'm not sure if this is made more or less awesome by the fact that Cthulhu is evidently an item of slightly less concern to the citizens of Russia than that giant Border Patrol robots. God bless the Russians, I say.