Claverhouse
20 Mar 2005, 04:13 PM
Being lazy beyond words, in order to find the quotation from Flann O'Brien's miraculous 'The Third Policeman' for Shai's latest Quotes (http://www.intpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3280) thread, I searched the internet first for 'de Selby' the brilliant physicist and thinker of whom I'm frequently reminded whenever I read the pro-science posters here. No luck, probably because it's still in copyright, so I had to fire up OpenOffice.
Still, amongst other delights, I found this very old list, first started in 1990,
Secret Contents of a Certain Government Warehouse
Version 2 (http://unclebear.com/downloads/warehouse.txt). ( and an earlier version 0.2/1.0 here (http://www32.ocn.ne.jp/%7Ewarehouse_j/Warehouse.txt) )
This file attempts to catalog and describe the contents of a particular secret government warehouse. In the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", this warehouse was the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.
...
The vast majority of items described below have been suggested by others, and some of them I've never heard of before. As a consequence, I've had to either research the details, or make them up out of whole cloth. In some of the entries I am likely to have made mistakes. If you think you've found an error, or just have something to add, don't hesitate to let me know.
If you want to make an addition, then please try to give more explanation than a single line (although I'll take that as well). I may not have seen the movie, or read the book that you are refering to, and I want the final list to give enough information on each item for a GM to be able to adjudicate the uses of things *he* has never heard of. At the end of this file is a list of suggested items that I could not figure out. Any help with them is also welcome. I should also mention that this list is being cross-posted to a fair number of newsgroups, and I am not a member of all of them. If you wish to insure that I see your replies, then either cross-post them to rec.games.frp.misc or send me e-mail.
Oh, and please don't include the full text of this document in your replies to me, as I already have a copy.
In general, you should assume that if the warehouse's doors were thrown open,
whoever isn't vaporized or eaten would:
1) Tear down all authority with their bare hands.
2) Be forced to reevaluate everything they know about Life, the
Universe and Everything
3) Be scared witless
Staff
-----
I've gotten lots of suggestions for staff members here. Everyone from Elvis to Warhol. At the moment, I don't have anyone in particular running the place.
Why not send me your vote for favorite custodian. Folks already suggested are:
Andy Warhol
Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis Presley
Santa Claus
Andy Kaufman
The sole custodian is a redheaded forty- or fifty-year-old man, somewhat
rotund and in the middle stages of male-pattern baldness, with a large
moustache. Speaks in a friendly and amiable manner, able to put anyone at ease, and makes a damn great Irish whisky. If asked, he gives his name as "Mike." (This is
Mike Callahan, from Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" novel
series.
A very appropriate choice, as Callahan is/was actually a time traveller from the future who saved the Earth and dispensed philosophical and psychological advice. He didn't use high-tech weapons or super powers, he just ran a bar while the strangest people in the universe walked through his front door. Highly recommended books, BTW)
%>Staff Other ideas include Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh Jr. (the Lindbergh baby all grown up now), Deep Throat (demoted for talking to Woodward and Bernstein)...
Only one individual is probably qualified to run this complex -- Ex-King Oberon of Amber.
Staff H. P. Lovecraft! Charles Lindburgh, Jr. (The one who was kidnapped.)
Dr. Benway. {Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs}
Several Caroline clones (they work there). I daresay you get the idea, but it's far too long to quote from extensively.
I think it's amusing, but perhaps it's not for everyone. So many Americans have
been abducted by aliens, they may not appreciate joking on sacred matters.
Claverhouse :ph34r:
[ And no, I don't know who Caroline is ( although it's my favourite girl's name... ) nor Mr. Kaufman. ]
[ And if you like Irish music, I also found this page, which includes de Selby's Reel, in honour of the great Scientist. Pay The Reckoning: Original Tunes (http://www.paythereckoning.com/Origtune.html). ]
Still, amongst other delights, I found this very old list, first started in 1990,
Secret Contents of a Certain Government Warehouse
Version 2 (http://unclebear.com/downloads/warehouse.txt). ( and an earlier version 0.2/1.0 here (http://www32.ocn.ne.jp/%7Ewarehouse_j/Warehouse.txt) )
This file attempts to catalog and describe the contents of a particular secret government warehouse. In the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", this warehouse was the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.
...
The vast majority of items described below have been suggested by others, and some of them I've never heard of before. As a consequence, I've had to either research the details, or make them up out of whole cloth. In some of the entries I am likely to have made mistakes. If you think you've found an error, or just have something to add, don't hesitate to let me know.
If you want to make an addition, then please try to give more explanation than a single line (although I'll take that as well). I may not have seen the movie, or read the book that you are refering to, and I want the final list to give enough information on each item for a GM to be able to adjudicate the uses of things *he* has never heard of. At the end of this file is a list of suggested items that I could not figure out. Any help with them is also welcome. I should also mention that this list is being cross-posted to a fair number of newsgroups, and I am not a member of all of them. If you wish to insure that I see your replies, then either cross-post them to rec.games.frp.misc or send me e-mail.
Oh, and please don't include the full text of this document in your replies to me, as I already have a copy.
In general, you should assume that if the warehouse's doors were thrown open,
whoever isn't vaporized or eaten would:
1) Tear down all authority with their bare hands.
2) Be forced to reevaluate everything they know about Life, the
Universe and Everything
3) Be scared witless
Staff
-----
I've gotten lots of suggestions for staff members here. Everyone from Elvis to Warhol. At the moment, I don't have anyone in particular running the place.
Why not send me your vote for favorite custodian. Folks already suggested are:
Andy Warhol
Jimmy Hoffa
Elvis Presley
Santa Claus
Andy Kaufman
The sole custodian is a redheaded forty- or fifty-year-old man, somewhat
rotund and in the middle stages of male-pattern baldness, with a large
moustache. Speaks in a friendly and amiable manner, able to put anyone at ease, and makes a damn great Irish whisky. If asked, he gives his name as "Mike." (This is
Mike Callahan, from Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" novel
series.
A very appropriate choice, as Callahan is/was actually a time traveller from the future who saved the Earth and dispensed philosophical and psychological advice. He didn't use high-tech weapons or super powers, he just ran a bar while the strangest people in the universe walked through his front door. Highly recommended books, BTW)
%>Staff Other ideas include Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh Jr. (the Lindbergh baby all grown up now), Deep Throat (demoted for talking to Woodward and Bernstein)...
Only one individual is probably qualified to run this complex -- Ex-King Oberon of Amber.
Staff H. P. Lovecraft! Charles Lindburgh, Jr. (The one who was kidnapped.)
Dr. Benway. {Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs}
Several Caroline clones (they work there). I daresay you get the idea, but it's far too long to quote from extensively.
I think it's amusing, but perhaps it's not for everyone. So many Americans have
been abducted by aliens, they may not appreciate joking on sacred matters.
Claverhouse :ph34r:
[ And no, I don't know who Caroline is ( although it's my favourite girl's name... ) nor Mr. Kaufman. ]
[ And if you like Irish music, I also found this page, which includes de Selby's Reel, in honour of the great Scientist. Pay The Reckoning: Original Tunes (http://www.paythereckoning.com/Origtune.html). ]