Ebenezer and Snooch meet Cthulhu

Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group,
and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence

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I haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean, but I did see the Ebenezer
and Snooch cartoon, so I'll just picture him as a squid-like mop. :)

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I've been wondering this for years: how does one pronounce Cthulhu??
Phonetic spelling, please. For some reason, my brain has switched some
letters, so I always hear it in my head as "clue-thu".

Dan M...

I've assumed it was "k-too-loo".

Magic Mood Jeep©...

I believe (and DH is an HP Lovecraft fan) it's pronounced

Kuh thoo loo (Kuh rhymes with Duhm thoo and loo thymes with two)

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Thanks, both of you!

Next question: Who/what *is* Cthulhu??

I love E & S! Ebenezer is my favorite cartoon cat.

John F. Eldredge...

Actually, I meant to post this message to rec.arts.sf.composition.
Well, at least the cats are on-topic.

Takayuki...

Cats are definitely on topic, but I was wondering why Cthulhu would
also be on topic. But then, I was also wondering who would win if
Cthulhu and the Flying Spaghetti Monster got into a fight.

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Funny you should mention this... I just learned about the FSM last
night. Apparently it's a big net phenomenon, but I don't seem to travel
in the right circles, as I had never heard of it before now.

Enfilade...

Well, Cthulu is evil and the Flying Spaghetti Monster is good
(particularly if you are a pirate, since pirates are his chosen
people). The Flying Spaghetti Monster created this world and all in
it, whereas Cthulu is only one of the many Elder Gods and not even the
most senior of them. On the other hand, that means Cthulu has a posse
and the FSM doesn't (though the FSM has a lot of pirates, who could
certainly beat up the human Cthulu cultists).

I'm torn. Good is supposed to triumph over evil, but Lovecraft's Elder
Gods are so scary because they're less conventionally evil and more
just amorally powerful beyond all reason...they don't hate us, we just
look tasty, and our opinions on the matter are so infantismally minute
as to be unimportant.

(*looks aside at Nocturne. Nox-Sothoth, the Cat with a Thousand
Badnesses?*)