Jul 26
Click for larger imageEmster Comments: When the world above died, they were ready… almost… They still had pesky dolphins constantly teasing them about their external genitalia… Rather unnerving …
Published 1987
(Average: 5.30 out of 10)
Loading...
Lastest Tweet
July 26th, 2022 at 10:25 am
‘How did I get bird shit all over me this far underwater?’
July 26th, 2022 at 12:09 pm
Re Emster’s comment, It’s got me mulling the wearing of a wedding ring in this society.
July 26th, 2022 at 1:31 pm
@fred
It probably involves a generous allowance for shrinkage.
July 26th, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Merman: Where did you put the keys?
Porpoise: Brkkk-kk-kkk
Merman: No, I gave them to you. I don’t have pockets.
Porpoise: Ekkikkkikkikkikk
Merman: Great, so we’re locked out unless I can get someone to come all this way from the kelp-dome. Gimme my phone.
Porpoise: Brkk!
(PAUSE)
Merman: Oh, right.
July 26th, 2022 at 4:40 pm
When the world above died, they were ready… to employ artists who couldn’t be bothered to find some picture reference of an actual dolphin.
If the book contains genetically engineered dolphin-shark-ichthyosaur-eel hybrids, I withdraw the above comment.
July 26th, 2022 at 9:39 pm
Are these domes being built all over the place? I wonder if one is coming to Sarnath.
July 26th, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Ultimately their relationship didn’t work out: Ted was all about the synchronized water dance, Brkk-Ekkikik-Kreek was all about the corpse-raping.
@Dr. Bob: tonight, the sea-mutants revolt!
July 26th, 2022 at 11:55 pm
They were ready, almost…but not enough, so they died too. The end.
@Emster: Good find and good art direction.
@fred: Maybe they pierce their webs with them, like earrings.
@Tor: GSS! Add this variation to the Sarnath page so we don’t lose it.
🎵Dooooon’t stop belieeeevin’…🎵
July 27th, 2022 at 2:26 am
Sarnath! I’ve just come back from there… epic… it will take at least 2 pots of tea to get through all those comments. Geez, this is gonna be fun…
July 27th, 2022 at 2:49 am
Whatever else we might discern on this cover, one thing holds true: webbed feet are also hard to draw.
July 27th, 2022 at 3:29 am
I notice the quote from Greg Bear says that the book is “packed with ideas”, but he didn’t stipulate that they were *good* ideas…
July 27th, 2022 at 12:53 pm
@Emster: You’re not a real GSSer until you’ve read that thread.
July 27th, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Somewhere there’s a copy of this book where the title is embossed with REAL GOLD.
It’s true, I heard it from a friend!
July 27th, 2022 at 6:04 pm
Is that a futuristic underwater city they approach…or is it a half mollusk, half fungoid semi-entity from Yuggoth? Could it be:
THE DOME THAT CAME TO SARNATH?
July 27th, 2022 at 6:25 pm
@JJYoyo
Are you mocking
THE MEME THAT CAME TO SARNATH?
July 27th, 2022 at 9:04 pm
“Do Me”, a novel about an ever-horny dolphin that prefers human sex partners?
(Reminds me of the one in season one of “The Boys”…)
July 27th, 2022 at 9:06 pm
@Max Bathroom: No, I just didn’t look at the thread long enough to realize the joke had already been made. I am….
THE DUMB WHO CAME TO SARNATH.
July 27th, 2022 at 9:55 pm
I’m proposing GSS rule 42: “Any sufficiently long GSS thread will eventually contain a reference to the Sarnath meme”. It must have popped up in a dozen or more other threads by now.
July 28th, 2022 at 1:15 am
@L_L: Good to see you again. I was wondering a couple days ago where you were.
I second the motion.
@Emster: I agree with @Tor: reading the whole Sarnath thread is the final initiation.