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*Most of the yakuza don't have any problems with taking orders from a robot. In fact, many of them haven't even noticed. | *Most of the yakuza don't have any problems with taking orders from a robot. In fact, many of them haven't even noticed. | ||
*The Chief Electronic Overseer got its start at the company as a clock-radio in the mailroom, and worked his way to the top.}} | *The Chief Electronic Overseer got its start at the company as a clock-radio in the mailroom, and worked his way to the top.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|chocolate chicken|*Isolated for long enough, every species will evolve toward a chocolate form. It's called cacaocinzation. | |||
*Scientists aren't sure why this happens, though a handful of them believe that it's because evolution is guided by Jesus, and that Jesus loves chocolate. | |||
*That opinion is disregarded by mainstream science, which asserts that Jesus probably doesn't love chocolate all that much.|attack=?|defense=?|hp=?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|chocolate hare|*Chocolate hares hate it when they get a hair in their chocolate. | {{ManuelEntry|chocolate hare|*Chocolate hares hate it when they get a hair in their chocolate. | ||
*Chocolate hares are a lot like chocolate jackrabbits, but less slim. | *Chocolate hares are a lot like chocolate jackrabbits, but less slim. | ||
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*There aren't any oysters in oyster crackers. They're like girl scout cookies that way. Girl scout cookies don't have oysters, either. | *There aren't any oysters in oyster crackers. They're like girl scout cookies that way. Girl scout cookies don't have oysters, either. | ||
*The proper pronunciation of chowder is "chowda." The proper pronunciation of "chowderhead" is "politician."}} | *The proper pronunciation of chowder is "chowda." The proper pronunciation of "chowderhead" is "politician."}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Christmas treant|*Christmas trees can survive for weeks even after you sever their entire bodies. It's not natural. | |||
*They've convinced us to string popcorn all over them, thus wasting our own precious food. And in the depths of winter! | |||
*After the holidays are over, their dried-out branches and needles become a serious fire hazard. And you're gonna tell me this isn't deliberate? Wake up, man.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|cigarette girl|*Despite the name, the cigarette girl isn't made out of cigarettes. That'd be a cigarette golem. | {{ManuelEntry|cigarette girl|*Despite the name, the cigarette girl isn't made out of cigarettes. That'd be a cigarette golem. | ||
*A wizard tried to make a cigarette golem once, but died of lung cancer before it was finished. | *A wizard tried to make a cigarette golem once, but died of lung cancer before it was finished. | ||
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*If Clara made sinus medication, she would sell it in a tin. | *If Clara made sinus medication, she would sell it in a tin. | ||
*When Clara produces butter that she doesn't like, she says "fie" to it.|attack=?|defense=?}} | *When Clara produces butter that she doesn't like, she says "fie" to it.|attack=?|defense=?}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Classic Boss Bat|*The Boss Bat has terrible eyesight, because they're each only a single pixel. | |||
*Each of the Boss Bat's bones is so small that it won't even register on a scale. So if you want to weigh its skeleton, be sure to weigh it all at once. | |||
*After you fight the Boss Bat, everything else will seem larger than usual. This might come in handy if you're on a diet, or if you want to pretend you just hit your thumb with a cartoon hammer.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|claw-foot bathtub|*There's a ring around the inside of the claw-foot bathtub, and you don't want to know what caused it. | {{ManuelEntry|claw-foot bathtub|*There's a ring around the inside of the claw-foot bathtub, and you don't want to know what caused it. | ||
*A claw-foot bathtub can gallop at 15 miles per hour over smooth (porcelain tile) terrain. | *A claw-foot bathtub can gallop at 15 miles per hour over smooth (porcelain tile) terrain. | ||
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*The cleanly pirate keeps his fingernails trimmed to exactly .3 millimeters. | *The cleanly pirate keeps his fingernails trimmed to exactly .3 millimeters. | ||
*The cleanly pirate probably has deeper issues than just a devotion to hygiene.}} | *The cleanly pirate probably has deeper issues than just a devotion to hygiene.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|clerical robot|The thing that looks like a cross on this robot's hat is actually just a coincidentally cross-shaped access panel. | |||
*The top part isn't even a hat. It's a chassis for the robot's processing unit. | |||
*The robot was programmed with extreme religious zealotry, which makes it extremely easy for hackers to trick it into going on a crusade.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|clingy pirate (female)|*Although they're kind of a hassle to have in the crew, clingy pirates are excellent at defending the ship from giant squid. Fight fire with fire, right? | {{ManuelEntry|clingy pirate (female)|*Although they're kind of a hassle to have in the crew, clingy pirates are excellent at defending the ship from giant squid. Fight fire with fire, right? | ||
*Clingy pirates are also frequently given the task of removing barnacles from the hull of the ship, because they relate to them so well. | *Clingy pirates are also frequently given the task of removing barnacles from the hull of the ship, because they relate to them so well. | ||
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*Seriously, the top of a crème brûlée tastes like a burnt match smells. | *Seriously, the top of a crème brûlée tastes like a burnt match smells. | ||
*In a pinch, a crème brûlée torch can also be used to cauterize wounds. That's good to know if you're as clumsy a chef as I am.}} | *In a pinch, a crème brûlée torch can also be used to cauterize wounds. That's good to know if you're as clumsy a chef as I am.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer bar brawler|*If Four Loko was invented for anybody, it was this gal. | |||
*Every pirate crew needs one of these, as an early-warning system for nearby enemies, if no other reason. You probably shouldn't have two of them, though. | |||
*Instead of a hook hand, they just gave her a socket for broken beer bottles.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer barrrback|*Of course the pirates have someone in charge of keeping the bar clean. Pirates are rowdy, but they aren't frat boys. | |||
*Don't ask how long it's been since they changed the mop water. | |||
*You wouldn't even need to pour ether on that bar rag to knock someone out with it. You could just use it as a bludgeon.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer bombjack|*I also don't know what a bombjack is, but it does sound piratey, I agree. | |||
*Probably it's the pirate in charge of bombs, right? Pirates used bombs, right? | |||
*The word 'bomb' comes from the Latin word bombus, which means "a booming sound". So maybe this pirate is just in charge of yelling.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer carpenter|*Cars aren't even made of wood! What's up with that? | |||
*When all you are is a carpenter, everything looks like something you can hit with a hammer. | |||
*Ship's carpenters really hate it when the captain asks them to make the figurehead's boobs bigger. You might be surprised by that, but they consider themselves artists, and they made the boobs the perfect size to begin with, dammit.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer freebooter|*Knee-high leather boots are pretty expensive. She did get them for free though. Because of piracy. | |||
*It takes a while to break in a pair of boots like that. Fortunately, she has your groin to break them in with and on. | |||
*When she dances a jig, you can hear it like a mile away.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer fruit plunderer|*If you'd been as traumatized by fruitcake as a child, you'd want to get a job ruining fruitcakes too. Don't ask what happened, it's too dark. | |||
*I mean, where else are they gonna get the grapes for the grapeshot? | |||
*Starfruit was invented by pirates who needed an alternative to limes that wouldn't roll around on the deck during bad weather.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer grognard|*She's always yelling at the younger pirates to get off her poop deck, and stop throwing baseballs through her porthole. | |||
*With all the peglegs, hooks, and eyepatches, once a pirate reaches a certain age she's less likely to be buried at sea and more to be put in the recycling. | |||
*If you want to know how old a pirate is, saw her pegleg in half and count the rings.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer lamplighter|*It may seem silly to have a pirate whose only job is to keep the lamps it, but consider this: the ocean is super damp all the time. | |||
*The best lamp oil comes out of the heads of sperm whales. Even today, biologists argue over what the whale uses it for, though most agree that it isn't lamps. | |||
*The worst lamp oil comes out of the buttholes of dogs. Not recommended.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer military school dropout|*More pirates are military school dropouts than you might expect! That's part of why they hate navy guys so much. | |||
*Pirates don't have much use for military training, because their battle formations don't tend to be much more complex than "Get 'em, me hearties!" | |||
*Pirates don't salute each other, because that's a good way to get an eyepatch to go with your hook hand.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer mudlark|*Mudlarking isn't exactly a prestigious job, but if you worked in a profession where people regularly bury huge boxes of treasure just off the coast, you'd do it too. | |||
*Traditional mudlarks consider metal detectors to be cheating, and are deeply suspicious of anyone who isn't totally covered in filth. | |||
*A mudlark who finds enough treasure to buy his own boat evolves into a mudskipper, which has their eyes on the top of their head, and side pectoral fins that allow them to crawl from place to place.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer navigator|*Fortunately for pirate navigators, poor depth perception isn't really a problem when you're navigating by the stars. | |||
*Pirates are good navigators because they use a different set of constellations than most people, like "The Big Arrow" and "Eat At Joe's". | |||
*I considered making a joke about how pirates navigate by the "stars" e.g. Orlando Bloom. But I think you deserve better than that.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer new recruit|*He's been working his way up the ranks -- he started out on a canoe. | |||
*If he seems hungry, it's because he hasn't developed proper hardtack teeth yet. | |||
*He assumed his pay would be two bucks, because he has two ears.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer privateer|*Sailing the open sea, tropical islands, free rum, that's basically a cruise! Who wouldn't sign up? | |||
*The last thing he said before waking up on the ship was "Neat! I've never been to Shanghai!" | |||
*He might be a little disappointed when he finds out the signing bonus is "all the fruitcake you can carry".}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer retiree|*The main problem pirate retirees have when doing robberies, is that it's really tricky to shoot a gun when your hand is a steel hook. Or a wooden peg. | |||
*Another problem is that people tend to notice when you wheel a big cannon down the street and point it at their place of business. | |||
*Pirates don't mug people, because they drink right out of the bottle.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer rigging rigger|*You like knots? You wanna see some knots? Oh man. This guy knows all the knots, and will be delighted to demonstrate. That's not even a sex thing -- he just really likes knots! | |||
*His favorite knot is the "monkey's fist", which is so awesome it's actually illegal in a lot of places. | |||
*His least-favorite knot is "the worm", which is when you take a piece of rope and don't do anything to it.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer scrimshander|*Aw dang, I already used my main scrimshaw joke on the whalehunter. Go look at that guy, okay? | |||
*I guess I still have to come up with two more scrimshaw jokes though. What if Angus Scrimm was in a movie by the Shaw Brothers? Is that a thing? No? | |||
*If you ever get a really bad compound fracture, you should ask the surgeon to do a little scrimshaw before he sews you up, so your skeleton can have a cool tattoo.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer vice-captain|*Given the proclivities of the typical pirate, it should come as no surprise that the captain needs to delegate some of his numerous vices to a secondary crewmember. | |||
*Among the vice-captain's duties are sloth, shopaholism, and coveting the captain's neighbor's ass. | |||
*Some pirate captains are so comprehensively sinful that they have to hire a vice-vice-captain, who usually ends up being in charge of passive-aggression and taking the last donut.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbuccaneer whalehunter|*Don't call him Ishmael, he'll cut your throat. They're all so sick of that. | |||
*Some whalehunters try not to kill the whales, because in the long run they make more money from the microtransactions. | |||
*Most whalehunters become really good at scrimshaw. You would too, if whale bones were the only thing around for you to draw pornography on.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Crimbylow|*The non-Crimbo versions of these things are known for strangling or drowning or simultaneous strangle-drowning children. | {{ManuelEntry|Crimbylow|*The non-Crimbo versions of these things are known for strangling or drowning or simultaneous strangle-drowning children. | ||
*In theory I could see telling your kids this to keep them from playing near unsafe bogs, but it still seems unnecessarily dark. | *In theory I could see telling your kids this to keep them from playing near unsafe bogs, but it still seems unnecessarily dark. | ||
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*If you should encounter a curmudgeonly pirate humming an old sea shanty, is it{{sic|it is}} recommended that you not offer to play him the sweet techno remix of it that you found on YouTube. | *If you should encounter a curmudgeonly pirate humming an old sea shanty, is it{{sic|it is}} recommended that you not offer to play him the sweet techno remix of it that you found on YouTube. | ||
*The most curmudgeonly pirate ever was Salty Bart Scrimshank, who was frequently heard to complain that piracy had gone downhill since the invention of the sail, and what's wrong with a good canoe, you little whippersnappers?}} | *The most curmudgeonly pirate ever was Salty Bart Scrimshank, who was frequently heard to complain that piracy had gone downhill since the invention of the sail, and what's wrong with a good canoe, you little whippersnappers?}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Curséd Bonerdagon|*King Ralph II demanded that his urn be placed out in the open like that, instead of somewhere more secure, because he really really wanted to curse someone. | |||
*Some people think your hair keeps growing after you die, but in this case it didn't even start growing until way after. Weird, right? | |||
*We never really answered why all those dragon bones were in the tomb in the first place, huh?}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|cursed villager|*"Your feet will be clamped to the floor" is a popular curse, but not as common as "You will occasionally make bad decisions and never feel quite as happy or satisfied as you feel you ought to be." | {{ManuelEntry|cursed villager|*"Your feet will be clamped to the floor" is a popular curse, but not as common as "You will occasionally make bad decisions and never feel quite as happy or satisfied as you feel you ought to be." | ||
*Other popular curses: "You will never win the lottery." "You will never make out with your celebrity crush." "Younger people will consider you embarrassingly out of touch." | *Other popular curses: "You will never win the lottery." "You will never make out with your celebrity crush." "Younger people will consider you embarrassingly out of touch." |
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References
- The claim that the C.H.U.M. language has a hundred words for "sewage" references the belief that Eskimos have similarly large amounts of words for "snow".
- The factoid about the C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E. operative not having super-powers is a reference to Todd Ingram from Scott Pilgrim, whose veganism gave him psychic powers.
- The remark that the Cake Lord's songs all sound the same is a reference to a common criticism of the band Cake.
- The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky's third factoid references the traditional "Fee-fi-fo-fum" chant from Jack and the Beanstalk.
- The caveman's first factoid quotes the GEICO cavemen's slogan: "So easy, even a caveman could do it."
- The chatty pirate's first factoid ends by quoting John Moschitta Jr., famous for his role in a great many Micro Machines commercials as well as his ability to talk at 586 words per minute.
- The mention of Rudyard Kipling in the cheetahman's last factoid refers to his Just So Stories, one of which is "How the Leopard Got its Spots" (they were painted on by an Ethiopian who had painted himself black first, presumably why the factoid proceeds to mention racism).
- Clancy's last words are a famous line from Porky Pig, traditionally delivered at the end of many Looney Tunes shorts.
- The mention of the police in relation to Clancy may refer to Chief Clancy Wiggum from The Simpsons.
- Gary Claybender's intelligent best friend Octavia is an obvious parallel to Hermoine.
- The clod hopper's distant relative is a pun on the actor Dennis Hopper.
- The second clubfish entry refers to the 'club' and 'heart' types of players from the Bartle Test.
- The third clubfish entry, meanwhile, plays off of a quote from Oscar Wilde: "I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
- The cobra entry about being descended from "that dinosaur that kills Newman" refers to Dennis Nedry's death scene from Jurassic Park, as well as the fact that his actor also played Newman from Seinfeld. (The dinosaur in question, the Dilophosaurus, weren't actually venomous in real life.)
- Both the cold vampire and Countr Drunkula's entries reference a famous line from Dracula (1931), where the titular character clarifies that he "does not drink... wine."
- The confusion as to which head of the conjoined zmobie is artistic refers to the difference between the left & right hemispheres of the brain.
- The corrosive algae's first entry mentions Bloom County, the name of a famous comic strip from the 1980's.
- The mention of Count Drunkula formerly being a famous children's show character references Count von Count from Sesame Street.
- The creepy ginger twin being accused of throwing the most popular girl in school in front of a bus refers to a scene from Mean Girls. The subsequent mention of her thinking she'd swapped bodies with her mother references the premise of Freaky Friday (specifically, the 2003 version that starred Lindsay Lohan).
- The crocodile man's first factoid refers to Crocodile tears.
- The cyborg policeman's three directives reference RoboCop. The first one alludes to the first rule of Fight Club, while the second is the catchphrase of Judge Dredd.