c4countdown

Just saw this....was quite amusing to start off with then I fast forwarded the show a bit and found out it contained two of our very own c4cers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yxTKf8g ... re=related

Haha, just sounds like they're speaking Dutch or something. And the clock actually counts down, which kind of makes sense.

In this order, Carol actually laughs at the right place in the anecdotes!

Jon O'Neill wrote:In this order, Carol actually laughs at the right place in the anecdotes!

And Des's pronunciation of "Junaid" is almost correct!

First thread I saw that fit.

Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Yes. However CTHULHU isn't allowed on Apterous, so he'd be out of luck if he offered it.

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

Mark James wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

That's what I was thinking...

Mark James wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

Surely (and particularly given the title) most people would just see it as an amusing mash-up of Countdown and The Thing. The CTHULHU reference just adds another layer for those familiar with the Lovecraft universe; it makes as much sense with it as without it. Or am I being really stupid (which is hardly unknown) and missing something else?

Phil Reynolds wrote:The CTHULHU reference just adds another layer for those familiar with the Lovecraft universe

I have no idea what the Lovecraft universe is, but I know Cthulhu from South Park

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Mark James wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

Surely (and particularly given the title) most people would just see it as an amusing mash-up of Countdown and The Thing. The CTHULHU reference just adds another layer for those familiar with the Lovecraft universe; it makes as much sense with it as without it. Or am I being really stupid (which is hardly unknown) and missing something else?

I certainly enjoyed it as an amusing horror/Countdown mashup.

I asked eldest son (27 years old BTW, so not a child - relevant given the further references) about the significance of CTHULHU, and he said it was from the occult, and found me this link to a spoof Dr Seuss "For Beginning Readers" version of a Lovecraft book about CTHULHU. Clever the way the writer has mixed the 2 genres, but scary stuff - definitely not for kids or the easily disturbed.

http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/galle ... 4#/d4ba34e

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Mark James wrote:

Phil Reynolds wrote:Haha, very clever. Did anyone else spot the significance of the letters selection?

Aren't you supposed to, or it's not gonna make much sense?

Surely (and particularly given the title) most people would just see it as an amusing mash-up of Countdown and The Thing. The CTHULHU reference just adds another layer for those familiar with the Lovecraft universe; it makes as much sense with it as without it. Or am I being really stupid (which is hardly unknown) and missing something else?

Yeah, fair enough. I guess it made immediate sense to me what was going on because I had recognised Cthulhu (from South Park mainly but I'd seen the name crop up in a few things. Not overly familiar with Lovecraft) but that is just one layer as you say. It didn't make me think of the Thing at all though.

I think Cthulhu is perhaps more widely known that you realise Phil, particularly on the Internet. I'd heard of it and had no idea it was anything to do with Lovecraft.

Innis Carson wrote:I think Cthulhu is perhaps more widely known that you realise Phil, particularly on the Internet.

Probably true of a lot of things.