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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2007, 02:21:07 pm »
Thumbs down, no wonder it's from France.

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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2007, 02:50:28 pm »
Perhaps it's only funny if you're familiar with Lovecraft's work, so let me explain the joke a bit.

Cthulhu is imprisoned on earth, dead but dreaming, etc. The proper incantation can bring Him back, and part of that incantation is what the analyst reads. Obviously, he read the dangerous parts of it, and summed Cthulhu.

And by the way, it's not from France, it's on a French Web site. The site it's originally from is actually Japanese. If you're going to make racist jokes, at least make them right.

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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2007, 02:12:06 am »
Hahahaha.

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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2007, 04:45:27 pm »
Haha, okay at first I didn't get it because I don't read Lovecraft, but after you explained it it's rather funny.  Haha.
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Silhouette a lone existence;
A leafless oak grasping at eternity.


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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2007, 08:59:16 pm »
Haha, that's awesome.  :)
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2007, 11:48:49 pm »
Perhaps it's only funny if you're familiar with Lovecraft's work, so let me explain the joke a bit.

Cthulhu is imprisoned on earth, dead but dreaming, etc. The proper incantation can bring Him back, and part of that incantation is what the analyst reads. Obviously, he read the dangerous parts of it, and summed Cthulhu.

And by the way, it's not from France, it's on a French Web site. The site it's originally from is actually Japanese. If you're going to make racist jokes, at least make them right.

If I understand correctly from what I've heard, the incantation is "Cthulhu." By saying his name, AKA, the call of Cthulhu, you summon him. And he kills everyone. That's a big reason everyone associates with naming the song "The Call of Ktulu", besides the obvious reason that Ktulu is a valid spelling.

But of course, I've got to be wrong, so what am I wrong about? :P

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
« Last Edit: June 14, 2007, 04:30:28 am by Joe[x86/64] »
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: A Symantec employee's biggest fear...
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2007, 06:13:23 am »
If I understand correctly from what I've heard, the incantation is "Cthulhu." By saying his name, AKA, the call of Cthulhu, you summon him. And he kills everyone. That's a big reason everyone associates with naming the song "The Call of Ktulu", besides the obvious reason that Ktulu is a valid spelling.

But of course, I've got to be wrong, so what am I wrong about? :P

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
No, the summoning of Cthulhu is a longish ritual. The spelling of his name, "Cthulhu" is phoenetic, so "Ktulu" isn't invalid, although it's never spelled like that in Lovecraft's stories.

That line translates from R'lyehian to, "In his house in R'lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming"