Hastur rides again!

[haiiro]

I had this same plate in Michigan, and I finally got it here in Utah as well. I'm pretty excited about it, so I thought I'd share.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

lol!

Way to piss off the Mormons!

 

[Desdichado]

lol!

Way to piss off the Mormons!

Huh? How so?

 

[reveal]

lol!

Way to piss off the Mormons!

Ya! Nothing pisses off Mormons better than street racers!

Huh? This isn't about street racers?

Then who the heck is Hastur? Seriously. I looked up Hastur in Google and came up with a bunch of things. My point is, I highly doubt Mormons are going to see this and try to run haiiro out of town on a rail.

 

[WayneLigon]

Hastur is one of the main deities in the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the Great Old Ones. He is 'He Who Is Not To Be Named', among other titles. Also a family name in the Darkover books, which use a ton of Mythos words.

Eh, I sincerely doubt most of your go-door-to-door-type Mormon proslytizers know what the name would mean, much less care. You need to drill down through 'people that read more than one book a year', down through 'Sci-Fi' and 'Weird Fantasy' readers, to 'People who know what the Mythos is'. That's a vanishingly small percentage of the general populace.

 

[der_kluge]

Now you need two more with the same plate from different states.

Where's Cthulhu's Librarian??

 

[reveal]

Now what would really be cool if someone was behind you and says, "Hastur? What does that mean?" and then their car fills with an inky blackness and they scream something about their soul being rip out of their body through their nose all because they mentioned "He Who Must Not Be Named." That would be funny.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Now you need two more with the same plate from different states.

Where's Cthulhu's Librarian??

I'm here, and pissed off. I just found out why I can't get Hastur in Virginia...

http://www.io.com/~sjohn/hastur.htm

 

[Desdichado]

Hastur is one of the main deities in the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the Great Old Ones. He is 'He Who Is Not To Be Named', among other titles. Also a family name in the Darkover books, which use a ton of Mythos words.

Eh, I sincerely doubt most of your go-door-to-door-type Mormon proslytizers know what the name would mean, much less care. You need to drill down through 'people that read more than one book a year', down through 'Sci-Fi' and 'Weird Fantasy' readers, to 'People who know what the Mythos is'. That's a vanishingly small percentage of the general populace.

Yes, I know exactly who Hastur is. I still don't understand why it's supposed to piss Mormons off -- like you say, to most it wouldn't mean anything at all. To the rest -- if they know who Hastur is, they're already fans. Mormons don't really have a reputation for getting upset over fictional representatives of fantasy magic, deities and whatnot anyway.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm here, and pissed off. I just found out why I can't get Hastur in Virginia...

http://www.io.com/~sjohn/hastur.htm

That is just silly. To those who know what "Hastur" means they're gonna think this guy is a Cthulhu fan. Otherwise, his acronym is completely lost on folks.