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Is Harold Lauder a goon?
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Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth
Harold Lauder is a character from Stephen Kings The Stand. While rereading this book, I noticed he fit the profile of gooniness. Here is an excerpt from the Stephen King wiki:

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Bullied at home and at school, Harold is tall, yet overweight (6'1 and 240lbs) unhygienic and unpopular. He has black, greasy hair. He had a lot of acne, caused by eating junk food. He wears glasses. He is described by his sister as wearing the same boxer shorts until they stood on their own, due to their crustiness. She also describes that he masturbates in his pants. (He seems addicted to self pleasure). He had never experienced the pleasures of a woman. He finds an outlet in writing, writing strange stories in the 2nd POV and present tense and often affects a jaded, worldly attitude, when in reality he is merely immature and lacking in social graces; he overcompensates for his really low self-esteem by "acting out" in pompous, abrasive ways. He displays multiple symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome.
In addition to these characteristics, Harold also ruins his life and kills several people over petty revenge on a girl who was nice to him but not romantically interested. He also falls in love with a manipulative sociopath who uses him to get what she wants before abandoning him when he is no longer useful.

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Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

You've sure cracked this case Holmes

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
igot like half way through the stand but never finished it, I should it was prety good

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
M-O-O-N that spells IM GAY

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
no poo poo mycroft

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
My god! It's like the Rosetta Stone!

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Nooner posted:

igot like half way through the stand but never finished it, I should it was prety good

Get the audiobook of the uncut version. It's pretty good.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

Mycroft Holmes posted:

Get the audiobook of the uncut version. It's pretty good.

ehhh does it come in a more kosher version?

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Iron Prince posted:

ehhh does it come in a more kosher version?

Depends on how much you like gay rape.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Iron Prince posted:

ehhh does it come in a more kosher version?

oy gevalt!

ChrisHansen
Oct 28, 2014

Suck my damn balls.
Lipstick Apathy
Doesn't he paint their initials on the side of a barn and get a big ol chub?

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
I'll never tell. :ssh:

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



hello 'goons'

ChrisHansen
Oct 28, 2014

Suck my damn balls.
Lipstick Apathy
I really liked the trashcan man

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
He gets a girlfriend that wont let him actually gently caress her but it's okay if he jerks off to her, which he does, graphically described, thanks Steven King I needed a book that accurately describes my own sex life :smith:

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Flesh Forge posted:

He gets a girlfriend that wont let him actually gently caress her but it's okay if he jerks off to her, which he does, graphically described

I feel like between that and the cumming in the pants thing there's some fetish poo poo going on

but maybe my brain is just porn addled idk

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I remember reading It in 6th grade and everyone was really impressed because it was like 1,000 pages. Really it's been all downhill from there for me.

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Francine deserved to die for friendzoning Harold


she just used him for survival until Stu came to save her from an unattractive male

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

Ein cooler Typ posted:

Francine deserved to die for friendzoning Harold


she just used him for survival until Stu came to save her from an unattractive male

goons.txt

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
you could tell Fran had bad character because she was unmarried and pregnant

she probably deserved to be in Las Vegas rather than Boulder

Teriyaki Hairpiece
Dec 29, 2006

I'm nae the voice o' the darkened thistle, but th' darkened thistle cannae bear the sight o' our Bonnie Prince Bernie nae mair.
Not a goon. Harold Lauder lost weight and got things done. Some evil, some not.

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
I could lose weight too if there was a world-ending disaster and all the fast food restaurants closed and I was forced to walk across the entire country


as it is, current circumstances keep me fat

client
Aug 19, 2010

remember when stephen king explicitly went back and added a part to the stand where the trashcan man gets his butt raped with a drunk dude's gun? lol what the gently caress was that about

clam the FUCK down
Dec 20, 2013

Stephen King is weird.

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

client posted:

remember when stephen king explicitly went back and added a part to the stand where the trashcan man gets his butt raped with a drunk dude's gun? lol what the gently caress was that about


He didn't add it it was part of the original but the editor made him take it out

Also it pwns

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
iirc the butt gun rape was delivered by a very short elvis impersonator who was ultra fired up on meth and kept screaming

DON'T TELL ME

I'LL TELL YOU

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

William Stoner posted:

Stephen King is weird.

Not for a horror/fantasy/scifi author.

Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
if you don't want to read about people getting weird stuff up their butt why are you even reading Stephen King

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

OctoberBlues posted:

I remember reading It in 6th grade and everyone was really impressed because it was like 1,000 pages. Really it's been all downhill from there for me.

Yup.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Ein cooler Typ posted:

if you don't want to read about people getting weird stuff up their butt why are you even reading Stephen King

yeah there's the part of (I think) the first Dark Tower book where a guy is going to smuggle some dope for some gangsters and the biggest, grossest gangster has to "check his butthole for surveillance devices" so he hawks up a bunch of phlegm and snot on his fist and fists the guy's butthole

the "flecks of snot" (direct quote iirc) are so wonderfully described its like its your own butthole

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde

Flesh Forge posted:

He gets a girlfriend that wont let him actually gently caress her but it's okay if he jerks off to her, which he does, graphically described, thanks Steven King I needed a book that accurately describes my own sex life :smith:

my recollection is that he was allowed to stick it anywhere except the lady pocket because the devil needed her maidenhead intact

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
better than I remember it :shrug:

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
Also hailing from New York City, Susannah is an African-American (although as a woman of 1964, she prefers the term "Negro" over the term considered appropriate in Eddie's time, "Black") woman with two major afflictions: her legs below the knees were severed in a subway accident, and a childhood head injury left her with dual personalities, which Eddie incorrectly labels schizophrenia. She is "The Lady of Shadows", the second companion predicted by Walter to be drawn into Roland's world via the mysterious doors.

Initially, her dominant personality is that of Odetta Susannah Holmes, a well-mannered but priggish woman active in the civil rights movement. At times, however, she is taken over by Detta Susannah Walker—murderously psychotic, incredibly crafty, completely unbreakable—whom neither Eddie nor Roland can control. Roland manages to resolve these personalities by forcing her to look through the third door while he himself looks out of it, forcing her to see herself as she really is; thereafter, her personalities are integrated into a single, far more balanced individual, known as Susannah Dean, Eddie's wife, although they were never formally married. Susannah has access to the memories and personalities of both Holmes and Walker, and can call upon their skills and temperaments at will.

During the drawing of Jake, she submits to sex with the demon of the doorway in order to distract it and afterwards, she becomes pregnant. Susannah shares the experience of her pregnancy with a demon-turned-mortal named Mia, resulting in Susannah housing yet another personality in her mind. Mia takes over Susannah's body (and melds with it, giving her legs for a short while) and runs in it to yet another when of New York, this one circa 1999, to give birth to the demon child.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007

Flesh Forge posted:

Also hailing from New York City, Susannah is an African-American (although as a woman of 1964, she prefers the term "Negro" over the term considered appropriate in Eddie's time, "Black") woman with two major afflictions: her legs below the knees were severed in a subway accident, and a childhood head injury left her with dual personalities, which Eddie incorrectly labels schizophrenia. She is "The Lady of Shadows", the second companion predicted by Walter to be drawn into Roland's world via the mysterious doors.

Initially, her dominant personality is that of Odetta Susannah Holmes, a well-mannered but priggish woman active in the civil rights movement. At times, however, she is taken over by Detta Susannah Walker—murderously psychotic, incredibly crafty, completely unbreakable—whom neither Eddie nor Roland can control. Roland manages to resolve these personalities by forcing her to look through the third door while he himself looks out of it, forcing her to see herself as she really is; thereafter, her personalities are integrated into a single, far more balanced individual, known as Susannah Dean, Eddie's wife, although they were never formally married. Susannah has access to the memories and personalities of both Holmes and Walker, and can call upon their skills and temperaments at will.

During the drawing of Jake, she submits to sex with the demon of the doorway in order to distract it and afterwards, she becomes pregnant. Susannah shares the experience of her pregnancy with a demon-turned-mortal named Mia, resulting in Susannah housing yet another personality in her mind. Mia takes over Susannah's body (and melds with it, giving her legs for a short while) and runs in it to yet another when of New York, this one circa 1999, to give birth to the demon child.

i think we can all relate to that

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

I'm more of a Paul Sheldon, because I'm trapped in this loving place and can't leave

DOMDOM
Apr 28, 2007

Fun Shoe

Flesh Forge posted:

He gets a girlfriend that wont let him actually gently caress her but it's okay if he jerks off to her, which he does, graphically described, thanks Steven King I needed a book that accurately describes my own sex life :smith:
isn't she OK with anal though

DOMDOM
Apr 28, 2007

Fun Shoe
devil is cool with butt babies

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG
i ... i may be confusing the details with some relationships ive been in myself :blush:

DOMDOM
Apr 28, 2007

Fun Shoe
im the trash can man

the trash can man

trash man can

deus ex machina

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mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005
Nah, not smug enough.

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