hexwren posted:

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Music video [edit]
No one knows who the girl is in the music video.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

No one knows who the girl is in the music video.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Chapman was given the nickname "Appleseed" pejoratively for his highly unusual practice of planting trees from seed. Apples grown from seed are most often small and poorly flavored. Back when the frontier only extended as far west as the state of Indiana, that worked fine for Johnny Appleseed, since the apples from his trees were used principally for making hard cider. Also the pioneers didn't have any other choice in suppliers.

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Writers influenced by Dunsany

H. P. Lovecraft was much impressed by Dunsany after seeing him on a speaking tour of the United States. His "Dream Cycle" stories, his dark pseudo-history of how the universe came to be, and his god Azathoth all clearly show Dunsany's influence. He once wrote: "There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany' pieces – but alas – where are my Lovecraft pieces?"[39]
Robert E. Howard placed Dunsany in a list of his favourite poets in a 1932 letter to Lovecraft.[40]
Clark Ashton Smith was a fan of Dunsany's work, which had some influence on his fantasy stories.[41]
J. R. R. Tolkien, according to John D. Rateliff's report,[42] presented Clyde S. Kilby with a copy of The Book of Wonder as a preparation for his auxiliary role in compiling and developing The Silmarillion in the 1960s.[43] Tolkien's letters and divulged notes made allusions to two stories found in the volume, "Chu-Bu and Sheemish" and "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller."[44] Dale J. Nelson has argued in Tolkien Studies 01 that Tolkien may have been inspired by another of The Book of Wonder tales, "The Hoard of the Gibbelins," while writing a poem, "The Mewlips", included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.[45]
Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film-maker, cited Dunsany as an influence;[citation needed] He dedicated his book The Hollow Ones to him among other "old-school horror/fantasy writers".[46]
Neil Gaiman expressed admiration for Dunsany and wrote an introduction to a collection of his stories. Some commentators have seen links between The King of Elfland's Daughter and Gaiman's Stardust (book and film). This is seemingly supported by a comment of Gaiman's quoted in The Neil Gaiman Reader.[citation needed]
Jorge Luis Borges included Dunsany's short story "The Idle City" in Antología de la Literatura Fantástica (1940, revised 1976). He also, in his essay "Kafka and His Precursors," included Dunsany's story "Carcassonne" as one text that presaged or paralleled Franz Kafka's themes.[47]
Donald Wandrei, in a 7 February 1927 letter to H. P. Lovecraft, listed Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter among his collection of "weird books" that Wandrei had read.[48]
Talbot Mundy much admired Dunsany's "plays and fantasy", according to his biographer, Brian Taves.[49]
Cyril M. Kornbluth, an avid Dunsany reader as a young man, mentions him in a short fantasy story, "Mr. Packer Goes to Hell" (1941).[50]
Arthur C. Clarke enjoyed Dunsany's work and corresponded with him between 1944 and 1956. The letters are collected in Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence. Clarke also edited and allowed the use of an early essay as an introduction to a volume of The Collected Jorkens. The essay acknowledges the link between Jorkens and Tales from the White Hart.
Manly Wade Wellman esteemed Dunsany's fiction.[51]
Margaret St. Clair was an admirer of Dunsany's work. Her story "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951) is a sequel to Dunsany's "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles".[52]
Evangeline Walton stated in an interview that Dunsany inspired her to write fantasy.[53]
Jack Vance was a keen reader of Dunsany's work as a child.[54]
Michael Moorcock was influenced by Dunsany.[55]
Peter S. Beagle cites Dunsany as an influence and wrote an introduction to one of the recent reprint editions.
David Eddings once named Lord Dunsany as his personal favourite fantasy writer and recommended him to aspiring authors.[56]
Gene Wolfe used a Dunsany poem to open his 2004 work The Knight.[57]
Fletcher Pratt's 1948 novel The Well of the Unicorn was written as a sequel to Dunsany's play King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior.
Ursula K. Le Guin, in an essay on style in fantasy, "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie", called Dunsany the "First Terrible Fate that Awaiteth Unwary Beginners in Fantasy", alluding to a common practice among young writers at the time to attempt to write in Lord Dunsany's style.[58]
M. J. Engh has acknowledged Dunsany as an influence.[59]
Welleran Poltarnees, author of numerous non-fantasy "blessing books" employing turn-of-the-century artwork, uses a pen name based on two of Lord Dunsany's famous stories.[60]
Gary Myers's 1975 short story collection The House of the Worm is a double pastiche of Dunsany and Lovecraft.[61]
Álvaro Cunqueiro acknowledged the influence of Lord Dunsany on his work and wrote him an epitaph included in "Herba de aquí e de acolá".

Mescal posted:

In the 2020s, a restaurateur in Amman began selling single servings of mansaf in cups. While some customers find it convenient, others find that it demeans the prestige and honor associated with it.[17][18]

FMguru posted:

this entry made me laugh because it was clearly meticulously assembled by some superfan of early fantasy writer lord dunsany who wanted everyone to know just how influential dunsany was

thats a pretty impressive murderers row of 20th century fantasy writers

Improbable Lobster posted:

The series' name, SMILF, is a play on the term "MILF", with the "S" standing for "single",[2] or "Southie" (a nickname for South Boston), or both.[3]

Paladinus posted:

Not to be confused with SSMILF.

goblin week posted:

The game received generally negative reviews, with critics disputing the game's portrayal of Hitler as having two testicles,

prefect posted:

is it "sex with hitler"? i know i saw something named that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_with_Hitler posted:

The game received generally negative reviews, with critics disputing the game's portrayal of Hitler as having two testicles, as well as deeming it poorly animated and un-erotic.

Captain Hygiene posted:

In November 2012, Danish and Czech researchers reported that the prosthesis was actually made of brass after chemically analyzing a small bone sample from the nose from the body exhumed in 2010.[15] The prostheses made of gold and silver were mostly worn for special occasions, rather than everyday wear.

Captain Hygiene posted:

In November 2012, Danish and Czech researchers reported that the prosthesis was actually made of brass after chemically analyzing a small bone sample from the nose from the body exhumed in 2010.[15] The prostheses made of gold and silver were mostly worn for special occasions, rather than everyday wear.

prefect posted:

Among other things, the moose was proposed to be used in postal distribution, and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry.