The other joke and meme thread

[Erestor Arcamen]

Use this thread for jokes and memes that do NOT relate to Tolkien.

Keep things appropriate or we'll have to sick Grond on you

 

[grendel]

OK, what movie is that from?
(And I know you know the answer ....because you just know "old stuff" like that 😉)

I'm going to guess "The Incredible Shrinking Man"...?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Deimos]

I'm going to guess "The Incredible Shrinking Man"...?

I was seriously asking... I didn't know, tho' I did think it might be The Incredible Shrinking Man (TISM) .
Aaaannnnnd......you are right; it is from TISM ( I had to look it up.)
The Movie is based on a story by Richard Matheson...yep THE Richard Matheson. He also wrote the screenplay
Anyone familiar with the Original Twilight Zone TV Series knows the name Richard Matheson.
He is living in a dollhouse when the cat scene occurs. (The character Scott Carey is living in the doll house, not Richard Matheson 🙄😁)

 

[Deimos]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

Most amazing piece of text I have ever read in my life!!

I think my favorite part is "he hatcheth from an egg and he then be a tadpole."

 

[Ashley]

"A frogge ben a wee beest with four legges"
"He hath longis and gylles both"
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

 

[Deimos]

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OK...so a bit a of a long tangent here... (maybe the mods can move it to a more appropriate forum)
Edit: probably belongs in the TRIVIA forum....bet me if it doesn't 😁😉.

The name Hugo Gernsback rung a bell, so I decided to look him up.
The following are excerpts from the Wikipedia entry Hugo Gernsback.
"For more fascinating details go to Wikipedia" 😁

First off, I'm ashamed to say I didn't immediately recognize the name as belonging to the original publisher of Amazing Stories. (1926).
It was "the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction."

"His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".

That bit of info about the Hugo awards.... never knew that either.

"In 1925, he founded radio station WRNY, which was broadcast from the 18th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. In 1928, WRNY aired some of the first television broadcasts. ... Gernsback was an entrepreneur in the electronics industry... helping to popularize amateur "wireless". "

In SF "Gernsback provided a forum for the modern genre of science fiction in 1926 by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories....His idea of a perfect science fiction story was "75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science".

Scientific accuracy in the stories was important so he set up a panel of experts——"all reputable professionals from universities, museums, and institutes"—to pass judgment on the accuracy of the science.
"He also encouraged his writers to elaborate on the scientific details... comment on the impossibilities in each other's stories, and even offered his readers prize money for identifying scientific errors. He also played an important role in starting science fiction fandom, by organizing the Science Fiction League."

Gernsback also wasn't the most honest person....he paid his writers barely a pittance , or maybe didn't pay them at all.
HP Lovecraft called him "Hugo the Rat".
The Wikipedia article goes into some detail about that less than attractive side of his character.

Still, he was a visionary, and he had a lot of patents; 80 by the time he died (1967) at age 83.
Among them:
A new method for manufacturing dry cell batteries, a combined electric hair brush and comb...
A device which converted audio into electrical impulses that could be detected by humans. He advocated this device as a method for allowing the deaf to experience music.
Patents related to Incandescent Lamp..., Luminous Electric Mirror, Transmitter, Postal Card, ...Submersible Amusement Device, ... Apparatus for Landing Flying Machines, Tuned Telephone Receiver... Electrically Operated Fountain,... Radio Horn, Variable Condenser... Telephone Receiver, ...Code Learner's Instrument.

 

[Deimos]

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

 

[Deimos]

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Amanita phalloides (Death Cap mushroom, among others... tho' it is not the one in the pic...)

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Vorondil]

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I stood before the slumbering beast; and awoke it with my challenge:

Quick as a bolt of lightning the beast struck, and took me in its terrible jaws. Its fetid breath stinking of death, and stale cat biscuits almost overpowered me, but I withstood the stench and the crushing teeth. With all my strength I thrust my sword through the roof of its mouth.

The beast was dead. No longer would the defenceless peasants need to fear the beast's rending talons.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Deimos]

 

[Deimos]

The "Uncanny Valley" of food ...

 

[Erestor Arcamen]