Comments | maradydd: Happy 119th birthday, Uncle Howie!

maradydd

Happy 119th birthday, Uncle Howie!

Aug 20, 2009 20:51

We will worship Great Cthulhu,
From Calais to Honolulu,
If you're not there, watch on Hulu!
And that's good enough for me.

(alternate third line: "You and me and Mr. Sulu")

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jrtom August 20 2009, 20:11:34 UTC

My version of this (which doesn't rhyme quite as well)

"We will worship Great Cthulhu
Though we know we're quite a fool to
Still we make of it a rule to
And that's good enough for me."

:)

morbid_curious August 21 2009, 00:56:23 UTC

The third line is a bit rich, considering if you're not in North America you can't watch Hulu at all because the service is geolocked. Still, happy birthday to him, and if you'll allow me to take slight liberties with the rhythm:

Ia, ia Great Cthulhu
From R'lyeh you will awake to
Eat our souls and we who worship you
Will be eaten last of all!

maradydd August 21 2009, 01:03:08 UTC

In my experience, it works just fine through a proxy. ssh port forwarding for the win. :)

allonymist August 21 2009, 01:39:59 UTC

We make offerings to Glaaki
'Cause he helps us win at hockey,
Brings us madness, brings us Pocky,
And that's good enough for me!

maradydd August 21 2009, 01:59:40 UTC

We divine for great Tsathoggua
Using entrails, cards and ba gua
Air, earth, fire, wood and agua
And that's good enough for me!

allonymist August 21 2009, 01:45:24 UTC

And one of seborn's:

We give sacrifice to Odin
Even though he's quite forbodin'
'Cause we're bored, and 'cause we're snowed in
And that's good enough for me.

And another of mine, more on Lovecraft:

It's not hard to worship Dagon
You don't have to be Carl Sagan:
He accepted Ronald Reagan,
And that's good enough for me!

allonymist August 21 2009, 01:56:05 UTC

A joint effort:

Praise to He Who Must Go Nameless!
No, I'm not an ignoramus:
Those who say it just go squamous.
And that's good enough for me.

maradydd August 21 2009, 02:02:09 UTC

Not mine, but a classic:

Of the Old Ones none is vaster,
Great Cthulhu's not his master;
I refer, of course, to *mumble*
And that's good enough for me!

allonymist August 21 2009, 02:09:29 UTC

Amusingly, the tradition that mentioning the big H makes him show up appears nowhere in the regular Cthulhu mythos stories. It seems to have originated in an early edition of the D&D "Deities and Demigods" supplement.