Throgmorton Puns

Hey there! I know Innsmouthers are coming from Shadow over Innsmouth, but are the Throgmortons in previous Lovecraft work?

Also, I'm currently doing the "Through the Looking Glass" case and went into Robert's father's room. Is the ape features that he praises so much a result of bestiality? There's a picture of a normal looking ape named Rosie taken the same year that he went to africa. His father also looked like a regular human being in the poster too.

Is it really implied Robert's the son of an ape and a human, or am I missing something...

I thought I was too young to read the obituaries in the Saluki Alumni Magazine.

I recently learned of the death of my friend James Throgmorton. A good friend of mine from SIU.

James always had the ability to create a unique interaction. I remember several vastly different memories of conversations with him during my time at SIU. Each one more interesting than the last. He was quite the hobbyist. I remember him gushing over drones years back, talking about how they're the future of video production (little did I know I would be using them 6 years later in my own line of work).

I met James through the Cinema and Photography program, which is where many of his interests where. He was always showing off the latest piece of tech he procured to all of us undergraduates.

The absolute best memory I have of James, which is quintessentially Carbondale, was during the 2017 eclipse. We were staying at a campsite just outside of town. I remember hearing the bell of an ice cream truck travel through. We all jumped out of our hungover daze to run towards this sound. To my surprise James was actually driving and operating this fucking ice cream truck. I have no idea what situation brought him to driving this truck but it was an absolute treat to see him dishing out Choco Tacos during the Southern Illinois summer.

And of course, he was ecstatic over the new 360 degree camera he was using during the whole experience. I got a full tour of the camera AND the ice cream truck.

Thank you for the unwavering kindness and good energy James. Please rest in peace.

James died in an auto accident on Aug. 14th, 2020.

Where the two of them hunt vampires together, and Jonathan spends the entire show hiding the fact he's a vampire.

Mr. Throgmorton is some sort of ape-human hybrid and I was thinking maybe he was based off of some obscure lore from either the Mythos or possibly the Conan the Barbarian canon?

Pls no spoilers I'm still very early in the game (I'm only just searching for the professor)

The throgmortons are clearly a reference to Lovecraft's 'Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family', but are we supposed to just assume that Francis throgmorton f****d a gorilla or something? Does all that get explained later?

so I found him the first time near the bar in docks, then I found him at the night asylum and now I can't find him. anyone know where he is?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

The Butcher boys.

Chet, Eli, and Rex.

The bane of my existence.

They picked me as a target when we were still finger-painting and learning our ABCs. Maybe it was because Rex--the youngest brother and my classmate--didn’t like the way I wrinkled my nose at his stench. Maybe it was just because I sat next to him and I was smaller than he was.

Who knows. I’ll never understand what motivates people to hurt others for fun, but whatever it is, the Butcher boys had it in abundance.

As soon as Rex told his older brothers Eli and Chet that I was an easy target, my life became a nightmare. Every day after school, the hunt was on. The moment that the yellow school bus turned the corner or the adults disappeared, the Butcher boys materialized like demons out of the shadows. They appeared in the gloom of the pine forest shortcut, behind tall wooden fences, or pressed up against the siding of empty suburban houses. I never knew which route home would be safe, because I never knew where they’d be. It was fun for them. Like lions, they lay in wait. And also like big cats, they liked to play with their food before eating it.

In the woods or along the sidewalk, I’d run until my pumping legs burned or my asmatic lungs ran out of oxygen. The Butcher boys were faster than me, and they knew it, so they’d let me get away--almost. At the last minute, my legs would be yanked out from under me or I’d be yanked, helpless, from the top of a fence. If I was lucky, I’d just get an Indian Burn or have my face rubbed in something nasty until I choked and cried.

I wasn’t always lucky.

Adults didn’t understand that if I followed their advice and just ‘told someone’ or 'fought back’... it would only make things worse.

Things got worse by themselves as the Butcher boys got older. Their taste for cruelty became more refined, as a connoisseur develops a nose for fine wines. When neighborhood cats and dogs began to disappear, I didn’t have to wonder where they went. When my English teacher was in tears over damage to her car that she couldn’t afford to fix, I didn’t have to ask myself who did it. I wasn’t the Butcher boys only victim by a long shot--but I was the only one who lived in their neighborhood, the only one whose parents weren’t rich enough to just move away or change schools. I was the only target who was always available, the one they could count on when they ran out of windows to break or small creatures to torment.

It goes without saying, of course, that I *hated

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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