Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

King Crumsob haha

In the Hole of the Moping Crum

gah, just mixed up KC and Grieg again, lol

King Crumsbob (cos he is, by all or many accounts)

i know that a surprising percentage of trucks are trans, but this is the first time i've seen a _4chan_ trans truck

(less surprising are the number of truckers who are... _gender non-conforming_)

king crywank

― scanner darkly

what's with "crywank", anyway? "tearjerker" not a good enough word?

borrowed from the “Artists You've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their name” thread

ain't going to that thread but i do hope there is a band called the crywankers now

Chris Martin side project

Boys Don't Crywank

It's My Party And I'll Crywank If I Want To

I'm so lonesome I could stop this now

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/35/590x/secondary/The-original-Cry-video-806579.jpg?r=1686998680160

https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a1244984697_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a0802444472_16.jpg https://www.kuntandthegang.co.uk/images/shop/a2132824978_16.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3BzzNUyBRE

Wankin' on Bobo

ha if hunt3r wont go the thread, then the thread-- oh no!

Wankin' on Bobo

― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin)

everybody remembers the album as being called "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstein", but all the copies of the album clearly say "The Clones of Dr. Wankenstain". This is an example of the "Mandela Effect", which has in turn led to widespread conspiracy theories about alternate timelines.

To me, though, it's all about the pronunciation of "Wankenstain" on the iconic title track:

We love to wank you, Wankenstain! Your wank is the best!
Take my body, give it the mind to wank with the rest.

It's spelled "Wankenstain", but it's prounced "stein", not "stain".

That's not to say that we're not in some fucked-up alternate timeline, or that there might not be some timeline where it's spelled "Wankenstein". I've always thought of it as "Wankenstain". I mean, there's a pun there, right? That's the whole point.

Further notes:

Various online sources give the lyrics to the second line as "Wank my body and give it the mind...", however, the official lyrics, as found in the 1996 Parliament/Wankadelic box set "Give Up the Wank: Tear the Roof off the Wanker" confirm that the lyrics do in fact go "Take my body, give it the mind...". Another argument against the so-called "Mandela Effect" is that we sometimes _misremember things_. If our memories were to be trusted, the lyrics to all of Parliament/Wankadelic's songs would just be a load of wanks.

It's also of note that Parliament's use of "Wankenstain" to refer to the doctor accords with the terminology used by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel _Wankenstein_ - and note here that Shelley _does_ refer to the novel as "Wankenstein" and not "Wankenstain", another probably reason for the confusion. The "Wankenstain" pun just wouldn't have worked in Shelley's day - although "wank" to refer to masturbation was well-attested by this point, the use of "wankstain" to refer to the discharge produced by masturbation had not come into widespread use yet.

Shelley, it is often noted by pedants, used the term "Wankenstein" exclusively to refer to Doctor Victor von Wankenstein. However, it is equally incorrect to refer to "Wankenstein's Monster". It is hardly credible to refer what Shelley consistently refers to as "the Creature" as a "monster" - based on context clues within Shelley's original novel, it is unlikely to be more than nine inches - hardly what I would call "monstrous" proportions! Why, I've taken...

Ahem.

In any event, understanding of Shelley's work has perhaps suffered a little bit from later adaptations, adaptations which significantly alter her source material. In particular, the visual appearance of the creature in James Whale's iconic 1931 film bears no resemblance whatsoever to the creature in Shelley's book. In addition, the behavior of Whale's creature is entirely different. While in Whale's movie, the creature makes no more than guttural outbursts, in the original novel, the creature is intelligent and articulate. I'm certainly sympathetic to the transmasculine contemporary reading of "Wankenstein", but it's not one that's necessarily reflective of Shelley herself.

Indeed, "Wankenstein" is one of those works of art which has engendered (no pun intended) both transmasculine _and_ transfeminine readings. Unlike with other works to garner such interpretations such as "The Addams Family" and "The Legend of Zelda", transmasculine and transfeminine meanings accrue to different versions of the work. The transmasculine reading primarily takes as its source material the film by James Whale, a cisgender homosexual man. In contrast, the transfeminine reading, as expressed in the seminal "trans studies" essay "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" (take a shot), takes as its origin the original novel written by Mary Shelley, a cisgender heterosexual woman (making allowances for the fact that both "cisgender" and "heterosexual" are anachronistic terms when applied to Shelley's era.)

Don't kill us, we'll kill you

this is another anachronism but I'm pretty sure shelley was "bi" by today's standards (presumably still "cis" although the book does give me pause)

Pete or Percy B?

pete but I'm illiterate

I meant mary though

that's what i get for not doing my research lol

also i have no idea when "wank" and "wankstain" are first attested in the english language, i made that up

_is_ pete shelley bisexual? i don't actually care but i'm asking anyway

Yep.

yes I think he even used the word

(as for mary she was passionately in love with the men she was devoted to and very good friends with the women because that's how historical evidence works)

if wankstain was actually coined by one of that crowd it would probably be byron - mary could be gross but that kind of gross seems more in his wheelhouse

Byron loved his choirboys.

"the"

what is Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing from 2:25 here? No looking it up, just what do you hear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkD0hDi9ZIo

this train
don't pull no wiggas
uh uh
this train!

(admittedly, this doesn't make the rhyme work in the end)

"yeah, this is a clean train"

(no worries, friends. flagging myself. cheers.)

"this train don't pull no winkers"

it's a bit garbled. she probably got momentarily distracted and her mouth couldn't catch up with the lyric. that's common enough, but once you get to the rhyme with "whiskey drinkers" it makes sense if you imagine men salaciously winking at young women & them winking back.

I thought it might be "pull no anchors", as in people unwilling to commit?

come on now. there's no way it's anything but "wankers"

misheard lyrics is where ilx is a viking

your mum

lol

heartbreaking that that wasn't the first response

Agree.

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— law dog, esq. (@ggooooddddoogg) November 2, 2023

when AIP released the film in the US they referred to him as "The Smog Monster".

Red Motorcycle Football Club?

first you eat the albatross, then you eat the rich.

*explaining to the wife that you will now stop washing the dishes or yourself for the rest of your life as you monitor the internet for posts that offend humanity*

fp

just post the Twitter links

Agreed, if you’re gonna have a schtickt, may as well own it and let the haters hate

if you show up to a protest with an american flag you are also a fascist so