Great Old Ones!

[khwaihemm]

http://io9.com/5904547/mystery-cactus+like-fossil-named-godzillus-found-unlike-any-other-lifeform

Giant mystery cactus-like fossil discovered!

They don't say whether it was tough, leathery, but still extremely flexible, so we can only assume that it was ...

[LambethWarp]

Good find! Are you the commentator who wrote:

It's like a cactus, and unlike anything on Earth? I'm glad it wasn't found in Antarctica . . . F'thangthfully.

?

[Bob Lovecraft]

Well, there goes the continent...

Bob

[Clangador]

Those zany scientists are always finding something new. 

[Bob Lovecraft]

Those zany scientists are always finding something new. 

Then digging it up and letting it run rampant all over the pace killing, and reveling, and finding new ways to howl!

Bob

[T. Kelly Lee]

Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

I suppose that's really the poster quote for recruiting cultists.  I mean seriously, how can you argue with that.  In my office, anyway, we're pretty low on the shouting, killing, reveling, and enjoying.  Though we do have a monthly birthday party.  Sometimes someone even brings beer. 

[Clangador]

Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

I suppose that's really the poster quote for recruiting cultists.  I mean seriously, how can you argue with that.  In my office, anyway, we're pretty low on the shouting, killing, reveling, and enjoying.  Though we do have a monthly birthday party.  Sometimes someone even brings beer. 

Is there cake?

[Inner Prop]

What did Franklin say?  "One who is willing to sacrifice a holocaust of ecstasy for a little freedom deserves neither"  Something like that.

[Bob Lovecraft]

What did Franklin say?  "One who is willing to sacrifice a holocaust of ecstasy for a little freedom deserves neither"  Something like that.

Yeah... that rings a bell.

Bob

[T. Kelly Lee]

So, apparently Cthulhu was real.  Damn it. Let me be the first to praise him.  I'm going to begin reveling and enjoying myself as soon as possible. 

http://io9.com/5848192/giant-prehistoric-krakens-may-have-sculpted-self%20portraits-using-ichthyosaur-bones

From the story:

"For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over a fossil collection of nine Triassic icthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) discovered in Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse from a poisonous plankton bloom or had become stranded in shallow water.

But recent geological analysis of the fossil site indicates that the park was deep underwater when these shonisaurs swam the prehistoric seas. So why were their bones laid in such a bizarre pattern? A new theory suggests that a 100-foot-long cephalopod arranged these bones as a self-portrait after drowning the reptiles."

[Bob Lovecraft]

Well, that kind of puts that whole "Buzz-saw toothed shark" thing in perspective a bit, doesn't it?

Bob