Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

I think I pulled something laughing at that. Feels like something that would happen to me.

trichy wrote:

I just coughed and sneezed at the same time, generating a sound that's an odd mix of a shotgun blast and an armadillo being crushed under a giant sack stuffed with toasters. This resulted in my corgi, which had been asleep on my lap while I worked, exploding into the air in a terrified puff of fur and flailing limbs. She bicycle-kicked my monitor off my desk, which, while unharmed, scared the cat, who screeched, clawed my foot, and ran headfirst into my bookcase. In an attempt to catch the flailing corgi, I falcon-punched my coffee mug across the room, sending scalding coffee all over the carpet.

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Oh, how I loved that game.

trichy wrote:

I just coughed and sneezed at the same time, generating a sound that's an odd mix of a shotgun blast and an armadillo being crushed under a giant sack stuffed with toasters. This resulted in my corgi, which had been asleep on my lap while I worked, exploding into the air in a terrified puff of fur and flailing limbs. She bicycle-kicked my monitor off my desk, which, while unharmed, scared the cat, who screeched, clawed my foot, and ran headfirst into my bookcase. In an attempt to catch the flailing corgi, I falcon-punched my coffee mug across the room, sending scalding coffee all over the carpet.

And after all that you still didn't get the Babel Fish into your ear?

Hey, want to lose some sleep? This creepy thread from r/nosleep talks about an episode of Full House that many remember but apparent never existed. It's... fun. Let's call it that. Although it does make me start thinking about how unreliable our memories are.

I remember buying a novel on Nostradamus as a kid. The front cover of the book states "Would you believe that America will have its first woman president in 2004?" I somehow remembered the prediction throughout the years. When Bush won a second term in 2004, I thought that the prediction was wrong after all. Then I took a trip back home and decided to look at the book again. To my surprise, the front cover changed the year from 2004 to 2008. That was, of course, before 2008, so I couldn't verify whether the prediction was right.

I never saw the book again since, after my parents renovated the house. I half expect that if I do see it again, the front cover statement will change "woman" to 'black."

Thirteenth wrote:

Hey, want to lose some sleep? This creepy thread from r/nosleep talks about an episode of Full House that many remember but apparent never existed. It's... fun. Let's call it that.

WHO IS THEY

Gravey wrote:
Thirteenth wrote:

Hey, want to lose some sleep? This creepy thread from r/nosleep talks about an episode of Full House that many remember but apparent never existed. It's... fun. Let's call it that.

WHO IS THEY

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That's not even mildly-disturbing pasta

Stengah wrote:

That's not even mildly-disturbing pasta

It didn't work for me either.

I have a few childhood "memories" of my own that I know aren't true... but the story as written doesn't take very long to go from kinda interesting to just plain implausible (what about that episode would have called for a cover-up? It sounds to me like just one "Very Special Episode" of many, if anything a little late to that game).

It strikes me as one of many instances in which people make creepypasta combining a narrative structure with a premise that can't support that structure. Which I guess points up the idiosyncratic nature of horror.

Stengah wrote:

That's not even mildly-disturbing pasta

That describes pretty much everything that gets posted on r/nosleep.

Our memories are terrible, and it's super easy to create false memories. Pick a show people watched back when they were kids so their memories are already pretty hazy, describe a completely ordinary sitcom plot (that was definitely used in other shows if not Full House), and of course some people are going to "remember" seeing it.

Remember that one episode of Full House where everyone went to the park and they started throwing a frisbee for Comet but then Danny threw the frisbee too hard and it got stuck in a tree? And then Uncle Joey threw his shoe at the frisbee to knock it down and his shoe got stuck in the tree too? I just made all of that up, so I know it's not real, and I'm still picturing it all in my head right now as if I actually remember watching it. Some of you probably are too. Our brains are dumb.

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

muttonchop wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

Yeah, George Lucas is brilliant at naming things. No way would he ever do something like that.

Spoiler:

Fall Of The Empire: How Inner Turmoil Brought Down LucasArts

A similar situation arose with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed’s protagonist, Starkiller. “[That name] was only supposed to be a nickname or call sign, not a proper name from the beginning,” a former LucasArts employee says. The development team hoped that Lucas would give Vader’s apprentice a Darth moniker, which at the time, was something that didn’t happen often.

“The team threw a Hail Mary to George, saying the game would have more credibility if the apprentice had a ‘Darth’ title,” a Force Unleashed team member says. Lucas agreed that this situation made sense for Sith royalty, and offered up two Darth titles for the team to choose from. “He threw out ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’ There was a pregnant pause in the room after that. People waiting for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never comes, and he just moved on to another point.”

Vanity Fair: So, do we know what the words The Last Jedi allude to?

Kathleen Kennedy: Why in the world do you think I would tell you that?

I’ll tell you why. Back in 1998, I interviewed George Lucas for V.F. ahead of The Phantom Menace, and I asked, “Who or what is the phantom menace?” And he nonchalantly said, “Oh, it’s Darth Sidious.”

muttonchop wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

Did you know it's actually spelled "wookaie"? I could have sworn I remember it being "wookiee". Mind. Blown.

Gremlin wrote:
muttonchop wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

Yeah, George Lucas is brilliant at naming things. No way would he ever do something like that.

It takes a unique talent to come up with names like Kit Fisto and Elan Sleazebaggano.

muttonchop wrote:
Gremlin wrote:
muttonchop wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

Yeah, George Lucas is brilliant at naming things. No way would he ever do something like that.

It takes a unique talent to come up with names like Kit Fisto and Elan Sleazebaggano.

Hey, at least he never made a film whose main character "Luke S." is clearly named after himself.

Gremlin wrote:
muttonchop wrote:
Gremlin wrote:
muttonchop wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

I'm just glad that I can't find any evidence that The Star Wars Holiday Special existed. That was one helluva mass hallucination.

I mean that one was never even remotely plausible. A wookiee named Lumpy? No way.

Yeah, George Lucas is brilliant at naming things. No way would he ever do something like that.

It takes a unique talent to come up with names like Kit Fisto and Elan Sleazebaggano.

Hey, at least he never made a film whose main character "Luke S." is clearly named after himself.

Holy smokes. I never saw that before.

I just wish the re-release of the first movie (the one that added the Episode IV stuff) hadn't have changed his name. Starkiller is a much cooler name than Skywalker, but I guess they wanted to have a more kid-friendly lead.

Listen, I appreciate that, as a guest in my home, you want to help out. I really do. But if you load my dishwasher wrong, I will cut you!!

Serengeti wrote:

Listen, I appreciate that, as a guest in my home, you want to help out. I really do. But if you load my dishwasher wrong, I will cut you!!

When I load someone else's dishwasher, I make sure to put all the sharp knives in it, but I also make sure to put them in point up, for the double-whammy sin that also cuts them before they can cut me.

You evil maniac!

Serengeti wrote:

You evil maniac!

Go big AND go home.

The biggest tragedy of being deleted from history a la "Back to the Future" is that all of your friends will suddenly have horribly positioned photographs.

So if you or someone in your family is terrible at positioning in photographs, does that mean that your family members are being disappeared out of time?

Demyx wrote:

So if you or someone in your family is terrible at positioning in photographs, does that mean that your family members are being disappeared out of time?

Only if they were really tall family members, if the photos my sister-in-law frames are any indication.

Demyx wrote:

So if you or someone in your family is terrible at positioning in photographs, does that mean that your family members are being disappeared out of time?

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I figure that if you weren't there, the photo would have been framed differently. What if as you began to fade from time, you saw not just a photo without you in it but a photo with someone else in your place? Because your parents didn't have you, they had a sibling you never knew. Do you allow yourself to not exist in order for them to be born and thrive? What if they seem happy in that photo, while you know that you were not? Do you become obsessed with who they are, who they could have been, what they would have done at the events in your life that you think still would have happened to them?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I figure that if you weren't there, the photo would have been framed differently. What if as you began to fade from time, you saw not just a photo without you in it but a photo with someone else in your place? Because your parents didn't have you, they had a sibling you never knew. Do you allow yourself to not exist in order for them to be born and thrive? What if they seem happy in that photo, while you know that you were not? Do you become obsessed with who they are, who they could have been, what they would have done at the events in your life that you think still would have happened to them?

Nah. I'm pretty dope.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I figure that if you weren't there, the photo would have been framed differently. What if as you began to fade from time, you saw not just a photo without you in it but a photo with someone else in your place? Because your parents didn't have you, they had a sibling you never knew. Do you allow yourself to not exist in order for them to be born and thrive? What if they seem happy in that photo, while you know that you were not? Do you become obsessed with who they are, who they could have been, what they would have done at the events in your life that you think still would have happened to them?

That's a ST:DS9 episode!

Sitting in the Foxborough Stadium parking lot, for the U2 show starting soon.

Saw them at home in DC this past Tuesday, but my wife is the Uber Fan that shuttled us up north.

I'm more of a Radiohead guy myself.

1. I grew up in Boston, so visiting family made it all worth while.

2. If I have to hear One one more time I'm gonna go nuts! :p

Good times. (They're okay for the most part.)