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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

3d ago

I wouldn't touch it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33593917

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The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world

3d ago

I wouldn't touch it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShipGoo001
i appreciate the name's implication that someone expects to find more than 99 but less than 1000 other varieties of Ship Goo.
- Fun fact. La Brea means "The Tar" in english. So we basically call The La Brea Tar Pits "The the tar tar pits".
  
  This is both hilarious and extremely common.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_names
  This often occurs when a name from one language is imported into another and a standard descriptor is added on from the second language.
  
  Yar better be DOUBLY careful then!
  
  I hear it goes well with fish.
- It's really sad what happened to Bob La Brea High School.
  
  Rampaging Trilobites!!
Ah so this is the origin story of the goo from Stephen King's "The Raft".
I wonder how it gets out to Pennsylvania...
- Luckily, the ship is docked in Ohio, a place that doesn't exist. We think the pocket dimension can contain the goo.
  
  Ah well I'm glad the SCP has things handled! Right,time for lunch then?
In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 there is a quest where you have to banish some demons from a castle. During the quest one of the cooks asks Henry what the demons look like and one of the options is black sticky tar.
I always choose that one so that canonically Armus is in 15th century Bohemia.

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