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File:SS MINNOW pitch.jpg|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' is a dramatic television program set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the [[Fictional yet illegal|fictional yet illegal]] drug [[Clandestiphrine]].
File:GILLIGAN'S ISLAND - page from script stamped SS MINNOW.png|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|Page from ''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.
File:Baby_Sarlacc_advertisement.jpg|link=Baby Sarlacc|Advertisement for [[Baby Sarlacc]].
File:Baby_Sarlacc_advertisement.jpg|link=Baby Sarlacc|Advertisement for [[Baby Sarlacc]].


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File:Thing head and Beholder.jpg|link=Thing head and beholder theory|The '''[[Thing head and beholder theory]]''' posits that the walking Thing head from John Carpenter's film ''The Thing'' is a juvenile form of the Beholder from [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]].
File:Thing head and Beholder.jpg|link=Thing head and beholder theory|The '''[[Thing head and beholder theory]]''' posits that the walking Thing head from John Carpenter's film ''The Thing'' is a juvenile form of the Beholder from [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]].
File:Sputnik 1 Remembers.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 Remembers|Do you remember when the United States was no longer the most powerful nation on Earth? [[Sputnik 1 remembers]].
File:Redheaded VALIS.png|link=With Enough Redheads|The Gnomon Chronicles Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program reminds you: [[With Enough Redheads|With enough redheads]], we can project a beam of pink VALIS light into space, so other worlds know that we have redheads too.


File:The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One-Two-Three.jpg|link=The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three|''[[The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three]]'' is a 1974 American thriller film involving adult temper tantrums and irresponsible handgun discharge.
File:The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One-Two-Three.jpg|link=The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three|''[[The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three]]'' is a 1974 American thriller film involving adult temper tantrums and irresponsible handgun discharge.
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File:Monumental Barkitecture - Dogs and Cats.jpg|link=Monumental Barkitecture|[[Monumental Barkitecture]] is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
File:Monumental Barkitecture - Dogs and Cats.jpg|link=Monumental Barkitecture|[[Monumental Barkitecture]] is a canine modern dance company famed for their imitations of monuments, ziggurats, and other large-scale sculptural works.
File:Gnomon algorithm home page screenshot.jpg|link=Gnomon algorithm|Screenshot of the [[Gnomon algorithm]] official website home page, stating the fundamental principles of the algorithm.


File:Prisoner pursued by Large Red Ball - banner.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|Still image from surveillance camera footage of a man being pursued by a large red ball, widely interpreted by conspiracy algorithms as evidence of a secret prison known as the Village, occupied primarily by Prisoners, and guarded by Red Rovers. See [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)]].
File:Prisoner pursued by Large Red Ball - banner.jpg|link=Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)|Still image from surveillance camera footage of a man being pursued by a large red ball, widely interpreted by conspiracy algorithms as evidence of a secret prison known as the Village, occupied primarily by Prisoners, and guarded by Red Rovers. See [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)]].


File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") researchers discover quantum entanglement of the [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity Project]] and the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") researchers discover quantum entanglement of the [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity Project]] and the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].
File:Angus_voted,_now_it's_nap_time.jpg|link=Angus voted, now it's nap time|[[Angus voted, now it's nap time]].


File:Shakespeare-Magellan_Expedition.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|The [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|Shakespeare-Magellan high-energy literature experiment]] will re-route Shakespeare's quantum timeline such that the Bard produces his entire body of historical work while serving as a Liberal Arts adjunct to Magellan's Expedition.
File:Shakespeare-Magellan_Expedition.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|The [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|Shakespeare-Magellan high-energy literature experiment]] will re-route Shakespeare's quantum timeline such that the Bard produces his entire body of historical work while serving as a Liberal Arts adjunct to Magellan's Expedition.
File:Dark Shadows meets Teletubbies.jpg|link=Dark Shadows meets Teletubbies|Gerber makes baby food ''and knives''?? I see a children's television show about babies menaced by supernatural knives: [[Dark Shadows meets Teletubbies]]


File:Sun Sailer Cannibals.jpg|link=Sun Sailer Cannibals|[[Sun Sailer Cannibals]] is a chamber aerospace engineering rock band based in New Minneapolis, Canada. The band has received acclaim for its meticulous integration of advanced spacecraft design with hard-driving chamber rock music.
File:Sun Sailer Cannibals.jpg|link=Sun Sailer Cannibals|[[Sun Sailer Cannibals]] is a chamber aerospace engineering rock band based in New Minneapolis, Canada. The band has received acclaim for its meticulous integration of advanced spacecraft design with hard-driving chamber rock music.
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File:Vampire Welcome Mat - The Mat is a Generalization.jpg|link=The Mat is a Generalization|''[[The Mat is a Generalization]]'' is a computational performance program by the goth-influenced mathematical ensemble [[Vampire Welcome Mat]]. Math critic and known fabulist Karl Jones calls it "an extraordinary and heart-felt tribute to the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski."
File:Vampire Welcome Mat - The Mat is a Generalization.jpg|link=The Mat is a Generalization|''[[The Mat is a Generalization]]'' is a computational performance program by the goth-influenced mathematical ensemble [[Vampire Welcome Mat]]. Math critic and known fabulist Karl Jones calls it "an extraordinary and heart-felt tribute to the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski."
File:The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Raspberries.jpg|link=The City on the Edge of Raspberries|Screenshot from [[The City on the Edge of Raspberries]], one of the so-called "[[Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes|Forbidden Episodes]]" of the television program Star Trek.


File:Oil Pirates of the Caribbean.jpg|link=Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean|''[[Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.
File:Oil Pirates of the Caribbean.jpg|link=Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean|''[[Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.


File:Oort Cloud Follies.jpg|link=Oort Cloud Follies|Oort Cloud Follies - August 1 - 3, 2020. All participants must agree to survey a sector of the Cloud. Media relations provided by the ''Journal of Irresponsible Astronomy''.
File:Oort Cloud Follies.jpg|link=Oort Cloud Follies|Oort Cloud Follies - August 1 - 3, 2020. All participants must agree to survey a sector of the Cloud. Media relations provided by the ''Journal of Irresponsible Astronomy''.
File:Jukebox Hal.jpg|link=Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|"Dear Diary, [[Dear Diary (HAL 9000 edition)|HAL 9000 purchased after much computational haggling]]. I shall repurpose it as a jukebox."
File:Dear Diary (Death Star edition).jpg|link=Dear Diary (Death Star edition)|"Dear Diary, So glad I [[Dear Diary (Death Star edition)|stole the Death Star and repurposed it as a self-sustaining eldercare retirement facility near a temperate planet with about ninety-percent Earth gravity]]. Life is good."


File:The Terroir.jpg|link=The Terroir (novel)|''[[The Terroir (novel)|The Terroir]]'' is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
File:The Terroir.jpg|link=The Terroir (novel)|''[[The Terroir (novel)|The Terroir]]'' is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
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File:Big Trouble on Little Tatooine 2.jpg|link=Big Trouble on Little Tatooine|Cover art for Blu-Ray edition of ''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]'' starring Mr. Kurt Russell and Sir Alec Guinness.
File:Big Trouble on Little Tatooine 2.jpg|link=Big Trouble on Little Tatooine|Cover art for Blu-Ray edition of ''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]'' starring Mr. Kurt Russell and Sir Alec Guinness.
File:SS MINNOW pitch.jpg|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' is a dramatic television program set on a purported "uncharted desert island" during the Second World War. The plot is loosely based on actual military-industrial-criminal efforts to develop the [[Fictional yet illegal|fictional yet illegal]] drug [[Clandestiphrine]].
File:GILLIGAN'S ISLAND - page from script stamped SS MINNOW.png|link=SS Minnow (TV series)|Page from ''[[SS Minnow (TV series)|SS Minnow]]'' script showing the "SS MINNOW" stamp.


File:Playskool's My First DSM.jpg|link=Playskool's My First DSM|The [[Playskool's My First DSM|Playskool Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]], better known as Playskool's My First DSM, is a children's publication for the classification of mental disorders using child-friendly language, simple shapes, and bright primary colors.
File:Playskool's My First DSM.jpg|link=Playskool's My First DSM|The [[Playskool's My First DSM|Playskool Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]], better known as Playskool's My First DSM, is a children's publication for the classification of mental disorders using child-friendly language, simple shapes, and bright primary colors.


File:Custodian_cleaning_up_Brusts_LotR.jpg|Aftermath of the "[[The Lord of the Rings (Steven Brust novel)|Lord of the Rings]]" disaster, physicist and raconteur Steven Brust's unauthorized (and now preliminated) experiment in [[high-energy literature]].
File:Custodian_cleaning_up_Brusts_LotR.jpg|Aftermath of the "[[The Lord of the Rings (Steven Brust novel)|Lord of the Rings]]" disaster, physicist and raconteur Steven Brust's unauthorized (and now preliminated) experiment in [[high-energy literature]].
File:Frank and Dave discuss Sil.jpg|link=2001: A Species Odyssey|''[[2001: A Species Odyssey]]'' is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.


File:TARDIS on the Edge of Forever.jpg|link=The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever|[[The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever]] is one of the so-called "[[Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes|Forbidden Episodes]]" of the television program Star Trek.
File:TARDIS on the Edge of Forever.jpg|link=The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever|[[The TARDIS on the Edge of Forever]] is one of the so-called "[[Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes|Forbidden Episodes]]" of the television program Star Trek.
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File:CSI_Reptile_Gastrointestinal_Unit.jpg|link=CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit|[[CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit]] is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
File:CSI_Reptile_Gastrointestinal_Unit.jpg|link=CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit|[[CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit]] is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion.
File:Cthulhu reviews the Exploding Head sequence from Scanners.jpg|link=Cthulhu at the Movies|In tonight's episode of ''[[Cthulhu at the Movies]]'', malevolent supernatural entity and renowned cineaste Cthulhu reviews the exploding head sequence from David Cronenberg's documentary film ''Scanners''.
File:The Super-Hungry Parasite.jpg|link=The Super-Hungry Parasite|''[[The Super-Hungry Parasite]]'' is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by parasitologist [[Rice Clear]], first published by the Gnomon Chronicles on July 10, 2020. The book features a polymorphic alien organism which demonstrates a wide range of parasitic behaviors, eating its way through a variety of hosts before pupating and emerging as [REDACTED]. The winner of many children's literature awards and an ongoing series of emergency xenoparasitology research grants, it has infected almost 50 million hosts worldwide.


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