This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
What Do You Mean They're Not On Drugs? launched as What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?: From YKTTW
Duckluck: "Ksht, this is officer Duckluck from the name patrol calling to report another stinker. We're getting confirmed reports of over-length, difficulty working it into a sentence, and a total lack of catchiness! We need backup here! Oh no, is that a missing apostrophe? Holy — officer down, officer down!"
Sorry, for some reason I thought my gripes about names would sound better coming from a Red Shirt. Seriously though, can we come up with something shorter?
Daibhid C: Does anyone recall which fantasy/sf author said something along the lines of "No, the scary part is that I can come up with stuff like this sober"?
There used to be a node at Everything Two called "The belief that any good author must have been on drugs", or something along those lines. Did it get nuked or something? —Document N
Sir Lemming: Made some changes to the entry on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". Mainly, I removed the "Nobody believes them" part, since most Beatles fans do believe the song isn't an intentional reference to LSD. I also added other pertinent information about the issue in what I think is a fairly concise way.
Sluimers: Why is it that so many think people have no imagination? Is it so hard to think of whacky stuff?
- I always figured it was due to stoners. Stoners have this (completely unjustified) idea that they're clever and funny as hell, so therefore anything clever must be the work of other stoners.
Prfnoff: I thought this was amusing, though written more like a troll post than an example. It was on Mushroom Samba, but of course wouldn't be an example of that, and we already have the game listed here.
- There was some platformer back in the 80's that featured the main character consuming mushrooms; whereupon he would immediately believe himself to have grown gigantic like Alice, or, if it was a green mushroom, that he could survive an additional death! Then there was the dreamlike imagery of winged turtles and walking mushrooms with angry little faces. In fact, there were faces, or at least eyes, on just about everything: mushrooms, stars, clouds; the hills themselves, even, in the sequels I think were made.
macroscopic: Whoa, I probably should've looked here first. I replaced the old entry with this since that one was kind of nattery and drifted on and off topic anyway.
