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Arbitrary Number posted:hosed Out Of Existence By My Own Genus by Chuck Tingle
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Jan 23, 2019 04:24
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Does he take requests?
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Jan 23, 2019 06:03
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does he take requests? Yes, but only in the butt.
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Jan 23, 2019 06:24
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MariusLecter posted:Yes, but only in the butt. i say what what
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Jan 23, 2019 13:19
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MariusLecter posted:Yes, but only in the butt. I thought requests took him in the butt
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Jan 27, 2019 02:10
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Mark Carwardine got shagged by a rare  10 years ago on the 15th.
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Jan 30, 2019 05:08
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Slippery posted:I thought requests took him in the butt Pounded In the Butt by a Reader's Request to Get Pounded in the Butt in a Book About my Handsome Doctor who is a Bicycle Shaped like a T-Rex in a Dress
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Jan 30, 2019 05:44
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The wikipedia article on leaf insects/walking leaves had me briefly questioning my sanity when I read that they weren't found outside of Asia and Australia. I knew I'd seen them multiple times in... Missouri? Did I imagine that? Did I see them in a zoo at some point and construct a false memory? What the gently caress? Yeah, what I saw were katydids—and despite looking like leaves, they're not "leaf insects." I didn't even know the word "katydid" referred to a specific family of insect—I thought it was a regional term for any kind of cricket/grasshopper. Rollersnake has a new favorite as of 10:46 on Jan 30, 2019 |
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Jan 30, 2019 10:41
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Rollersnake posted:The wikipedia article on leaf insects/walking leaves had me briefly questioning my sanity when I read that they weren't found outside of Asia and Australia. I knew I'd seen them multiple times in... Missouri? Did I imagine that? Did I see them in a zoo at some point and construct a false memory? What the gently caress? The Leaf Insect article is peak Wiki-sperg - article titled after the scientific name rather than it's common name, a couple of vague paragraphs giving little info, a long list of sub-species that don't even have their own articles, and all the references are to academic papers hidden behind a paywall. A good 50% of the insect articles are like that. There's a guy who adds dozens of articles per week that are just lists of moth species, or lists of lists of moth species. Want to know all the moth species sorted by county in rural Moldova? Well he's either written that list or is planning to.
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Jan 30, 2019 11:55
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To be fair there's so many bug species in existence that we don't even have an educated guess as to the number. You can probably make an entire biology career just studying bugs in a single county.
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Jan 30, 2019 11:56
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Questionable entomology itt
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Jan 30, 2019 12:25
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Sweevo posted:The Leaf Insect article is peak Wiki-sperg - article titled after the scientific name rather than it's common name, a couple of vague paragraphs giving little info, a long list of sub-species that don't even have their own articles, and all the references are to academic papers hidden behind a paywall. And we want to cure autism?
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Jan 30, 2019 12:57
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Sweevo posted:The Leaf Insect article is peak Wiki-sperg - article titled after the scientific name rather than it's common name, a couple of vague paragraphs giving little info, a long list of sub-species that don't even have their own articles, and all the references are to academic papers hidden behind a paywall. You know how it is with Wikipedia.
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Jan 30, 2019 13:07
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bony tony posted:You know how it is with Wikipedia. Leaf Insects In Popular Culture...
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Jan 30, 2019 14:47
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The family Phylliidae (Japanese: コノハムシ科 Hepburn: Kono hamushika) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves,
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Jan 30, 2019 15:11
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bony tony posted:You know how it is with Wikipedia. No, I DON'T know how it is with Wikipedia! Why ain't you fuckin tell me how it is with Wikipedia, bony tony? Cause THAT'S neat!
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Jan 30, 2019 15:32
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I'm glad you got the reference. May I give you a commodore?
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Jan 30, 2019 19:05
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bony tony posted:I'm glad you got the reference. May I give you a commodore? If you give me a commodore, I am sure it would be the finest commodore ever received by any man.
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Jan 30, 2019 20:33
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ToxicSlurpee posted:To be fair there's so many bug species in existence that we don't even have an educated guess as to the number. You can probably make an entire biology career just studying bugs in a single county. This problem is being solved as we speak though and soon we'll have a definitive answer on the number of bugs. It will be zero as we've destroyed the environment
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Jan 31, 2019 00:11
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jobson groeth posted:This problem is being solved as we speak though and soon we'll have a definitive answer on the number of bugs. It will be zero as we've destroyed the environment Cockroaches are bugs and they'll be fine. 
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Jan 31, 2019 00:22
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Cockroaches are bugs and they'll be fine. Cockroaches are incredibly climate sensitive and would mostly die outside of the tropics without our nice warm damp buildings to live in.
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Jan 31, 2019 00:35
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Lack of warmth? Oh, I think they’ll be just fine
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Jan 31, 2019 01:03
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Pounded In the Butt by a Reader's Request to Get Pounded in the Butt in a Book About my Handsome Doctor who is a Bicycle Shaped like a T-Rex in a Dress I just don't see how it's physically possible to pound out (lol) that much writing that quickly; I'm sure the quality is eehhh and like others have said the purchase is maybe ironic, but be that as it may he still has to string x words together I bet he has a flowchart with major beats and a ton of stock paragraphs he can just swap in and out of the narrative with different positions, verbs etc mlmp
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Jan 31, 2019 01:12
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Slippery posted:I just don't see how it's physically possible to pound out (lol) that much writing that quickly; I'm sure the quality is eehhh and like others have said the purchase is maybe ironic, but be that as it may he still has to string x words together If you're curious about the writing and don't want to spend even ironic money, you could check out the podcast. I think the secret is that the books are just very very short.
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Jan 31, 2019 06:59
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Organza Quiz posted:If you're curious about the writing and don't want to spend even ironic money, you could check out the podcast. I think the secret is that the books are just very very short. cool, thanks! honestly I had assumed the books were a couple hundred pages or whatever Pounded in the butt by a novella I had originally assumed was a full fledged novel
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Jan 31, 2019 10:21
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I've never read one but I think somebody posted here at one point that they're all a typo-riddled mess that was obviously edited to make it even more nonsensical and weird but it works. They're all pretty short books but really, the titles and covers are hilarious so Chuck Tingle is bringing laughter an joy to a lot of people. The guy is a treasure.
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Jan 31, 2019 10:23
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Excuse me, that’s Hugo-nominated author Dr. Chuck Tingle to you pal
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Jan 31, 2019 23:56
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christmas boots posted:Excuse me, that’s Hugo-nominated author Dr. Chuck Tingle to you pal Is Chuck Tingle the guy whose son posted on reddit or somewhere basically saying his dad is super autistic and writing the books is some sort of weird coping mechanism or some such? I'm well aware I could be conflating this with any number of weird-rear end internet stories but I thought it was something like that.
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Feb 1, 2019 00:04
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Someone came forward claiming to be his son, but AFAIK there wasn't much proof. He also claimed that he edited the books for publication which seriously undermines the claim imo.
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Feb 1, 2019 00:19
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Cockroaches are bugs and they'll be fine. You mean bats.
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Feb 1, 2019 00:37
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christmas boots posted:Excuse me, that’s Hugo-nominated author Dr. Chuck Tingle to you pal Two time Hugo nominee at that!
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Feb 1, 2019 01:58
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Today I learned that chipotle are just dried jalapeño's 
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Feb 3, 2019 21:08
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DC Comics’ name is derived from Detective Comics.
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Feb 3, 2019 21:15
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jobson groeth posted:Today I learned that chipotle are just dried jalapeño's Same but with ancho and poblano
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Feb 3, 2019 23:44
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Dr Christmas posted:DC Comics’ name is derived from Detective Comics. Shaking my SMDH head at this in IRL life.
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Feb 4, 2019 05:23
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It was only a year or so ago I figured out that when Marvel editors refer to the Distinguished Competition, they're not just being gracious in their word choice.
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Feb 4, 2019 05:47
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Phy posted:It was only a year or so ago I figured out that when Marvel editors refer to the Distinguished Competition, they're not just being gracious in their word choice. Back in the day they used to call it Brand Echh (after "Brand X")
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Feb 4, 2019 05:50
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"Sit" is short for "Situate" as in telling someone to 'sit' is short for 'situate yourself'.
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Feb 13, 2019 20:08
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MariusLecter posted:"Sit" is short for "Situate" as in telling someone to 'sit' is short for 'situate yourself'. Lol, I don't believe you.
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christmas boots posted:Someone came forward claiming to be his son, but AFAIK there wasn't much proof. He also claimed that he edited the books for publication which seriously undermines the claim imo. Chuck Tingle says his son edits his books and handles the publishing side of it. Pretty sure he confirmed it on Twitter.
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