So I saw your comment, went to read the synopsis, and was nodding along like "Yeah, this good, what seemed weird?"...and then hit the line "Looking for the bathroom, Cash discovers a shackled half-horse, half-human hybrid who begs him for help."
I had lobstraganda at first but amended to lobstroganda due to the quoted sources being lobstrosities.
Well, I wasn't 100% sure of how King had spelled it so I searched duck duck go for "ded-a-chek" and the Dark Tower Wiki entry for Lobstrosities topped the list. Sound out of deference to the source material: lobstroganda.
Edit: it took far too much effort to make every single word small like that, so I totally lost track of what I was doing. So replace "crab" with... whatever you want:-).
Neal Asher's space operas are some of my favorite books. The Prador, the AI, Spatterjay, he even has a short story with terrifying carnivorous sheep in it!
60 Comments
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 189 pts · 1y
applebusch@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
Human is endoskeleton optimized crab. Arthropod crab is exoskeleton optimized crab.
bulwark@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 1y
Speak for your self.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 98 pts · 1y
anyone with extensive use of kitchen tongs has a primordial understanding of our clicky-clack fates
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
It's true. It's so satisfying to click those tongs, how can we NOT turn into crab?
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 1y
reincarnation + carcinisation = clickyclackclack
turnipjs@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
reincarcinisation (clickity clack, crusty comrade)
Etterra@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 77 pts · 1y
You say we're not crabs, but what do you call car culture and the main battle tank.
We're Hermit crabs!
danc4498@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
We’re cosplaying as crabs. We are no crabs.
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 1y
For reference, just in case you're actually a crab and have been living under a rock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 61 pts · 1y
Meanwhile the crabs on earth: "yo wtf??"
Etterra@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
Hey when they can build radio antennas then they can talk to the aliens. Until then they can go play at the beach.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Throw radios in the ocean?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
There's no shortage of batteries to power them.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Well yeah you have all those electric boats sinking
Agent641@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Which crabs do we choose to represent us?
Snow crabs? King crabs? The voice actor for Mr Krabs?
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Who is "us"? You got a crab in your pocket?
Hule@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Star Trek: TNG - Conspiracy
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
We are us
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Us
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The Kurgan would be a solid choice.
GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Are you sure it wasn't "Are you horses yet"?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1y
I just read the synopsis. Wtf did in just read?
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
It's an excellent movie, I would recommend watching it, even if the synopsis is insane.
dditty@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
It is an excellent movie, especially if you go into watching it knowing it's a satire. I went in blind and was totally blindsided
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Same, still loved it. The big reveal completely derailed my brain for a solid minute before I started cackling like a madman.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y
So I saw your comment, went to read the synopsis, and was nodding along like "Yeah, this good, what seemed weird?"...and then hit the line "Looking for the bathroom, Cash discovers a shackled half-horse, half-human hybrid who begs him for help."
...wtf?
Of course now I have to watch it
expr@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y
A synopsis for a great fucking movie.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I spent 20 years in call centers. I felt so much of this movie.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 34 pts · 1y
Suddenly another voice breaks through the silence:
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Ded-a-chek?
Mannimarco@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Dad-a-chum?
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Nice try, you two, but us crabs ain't falling for your lobstroganda
edit: spelling of lobstroganda
OpenStars@discuss.online · 3 pts · 1y
Wouldn't it be lobstraganda?
Or lasagna, I dunno. Just hurry up and become a crab already!?
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
I had lobstraganda at first but amended to lobstroganda due to the quoted sources being lobstrosities.
Well, I wasn't 100% sure of how King had spelled it so I searched duck duck go for "ded-a-chek" and the Dark Tower Wiki entry for Lobstrosities topped the list. Sound out of deference to the source material: lobstroganda.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y
Oh "lobstrosities" for sure
(becomeacrab)But I'm firm on the "lobstraganda"
(Idon'tcarejusthurryupandbecomeacrabalready!- it just makes too much sense, for uscrabsuh... gotta go, bye!lifeasacrabisawesome-areyoureallyreallysurethatyoudon'twanttojoinustodayalready?Edit: it took far too much effort to make every single word small like that, so I totally lost track of what I was doing. So replace "crab" with... whatever you want:-).
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 1y
Now that's how a short story is written!
immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1y
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Taste like crab
Talk like people
davidgro@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Could happen any time.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
Oh god oh fuck someone out in the black taught them to read
Etterra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Learning an alien language is what computers and experts are for. It's not easy, but it should be doable. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OpoWJbo7oM
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Crabs do evolve fairly often.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Let's remake StarTrek 4, The Voyage Home...but with crabs!
TotalFat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
That should be the title as well
refalo@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
Alternate plot line for the movie Contact
satanmat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
We have an over abundance of drawn butter.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y
"Negative. We are trains."
Feyd@programming.dev · 22 pts · 1y
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
Stiffneckedppl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Big badda boom
MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 1y
Multipass
Etterra@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
OpenStars@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y
I know what you mean. But still...
Not sure if disgusting or delicious.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Toot toot!
IronSightOS@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/24/the-time-machine/222/chapter-11/
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip · 4 pts · 1y
Do you want Prador? Because this is how you get Prador.
Note: You do not want Prador.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Neal Asher's space operas are some of my favorite books. The Prador, the AI, Spatterjay, he even has a short story with terrifying carnivorous sheep in it!
Maggoty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Maryland responds, "but wait! Where are you?"
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 1y
iamdisappoint@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y
I was recalling that Wells' "The Time Machine" has a crab like thing the main character encounters near the end...!
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 1y