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File:Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge.jpg|link=Grievous Mitochondria|[[Grievous Mitochondria]] pleasure barge sells at auction for over three point seven levels of Kolmogorov complexity.
File:Grievous Mitochondria pleasure barge.jpg|link=Grievous Mitochondria|[[Grievous Mitochondria]] pleasure barge sells at auction for over three point seven levels of Kolmogorov complexity.
File:Nysa on Maeander Library Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] offers to host a series of [[Interview with the Colossus of Rhodes|interviews with the Colossus of Rhodes]].


File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1946: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|original event]].
File:Nysa on Maeander Library Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] offers to host a series of [[Interview with the Colossus of Rhodes|interviews with the Colossus of Rhodes]].


File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Rubrics|Although badly faded, this medieval manuscript (the so-called "Red Charter") suggests that rogue members of the medieval [[The Rubrics|Rubrics Gang]] were involved in the blood sacrifice of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].
File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Rubrics|Although badly faded, this medieval manuscript (the so-called "Red Charter") suggests that rogue members of the medieval [[The Rubrics|Rubrics Gang]] were involved in the blood sacrifice of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].
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File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] vows to fight [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against set theory]].
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] vows to fight [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against set theory]].
File:Mandalorian Dog - Teasing Baby Yoda.jpg|link=The Mandalorian Dog|'''''[[The Mandalorian Dog]]''''' is a 1929/2020 Franco-Spanish silent surrealist short [[scrylmn]] by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and celebrity polymath Werner Herzog. Show here: the infamous "Teasing Baby Yoda" scene.


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: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]].
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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: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: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:Baby_Sarlacc_advertisement.jpg|link=Baby Sarlacc|Advertisement for [[Baby Sarlacc]].


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:Cretaceous Office Supplies 2.png|link=Cretaceous Office Supplies|[[Cretaceous Office Supplies]] is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic).


File:Jerusalem math virus.jpg|link=Jerusalem (math virus)|link=Jerusalem (math virus)|Effects of the [[Jerusalem (math virus)|Jerusalem math virus]]: <br><br>Bring me my bow of burning code!<br>Bring me my arrows of Netwire!<br>Bring me my files! To Cloud, upload!<br>Bring me my CPU of fire!
File:Health_Minister_spongiform_encephalopathy_infographic.jpg|link=Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy|[[Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy]] infographic.


File:Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado.jpg|link=Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?|"[[Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?]]"
File:Chthulhu_Pie.jpg|link=Cthulhu pie|Promotional poster from the [[Cthulhu pie|Cthulhu Pie]] Quality Control Board.
 
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:Baby_Sarlacc_advertisement.jpg|link=Baby Sarlacc|Advertisement for [[Baby Sarlacc]].
 
File:Health_Minister_spongiform_encephalopathy_infographic.jpg|link=Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy|[[Health Minister spongiform encephalopathy]] infographic.


File:Scrying_Engine_with_CCRU_Spinal_Module.png|link=CCRU scrying engine module|Typical 1922-era scrying engine with [[CCRU scrying engine module|CCRU Module]], visualizing the CCRU Spinal Diagram.
File:Scrying_Engine_with_CCRU_Spinal_Module.png|link=CCRU scrying engine module|Typical 1922-era scrying engine with [[CCRU scrying engine module|CCRU Module]], visualizing the CCRU Spinal Diagram.
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File:Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster.jpg|link=Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster|[[Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster]] (I-WQFT).
File:Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster.jpg|link=Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster|[[Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster]] (I-WQFT).


File:Wandering musician problem.jpg|link=Wandering musician problem|Promotional poster for the [[Wandering musician problem]].
File:Peano_Curve_(sexual_topology).jpg|link=Peano curve (sexual topology)|The [[Peano curve (sexual topology)|Peano curve]] is an alleged transdimensional sexual [[Topology (nonfiction)|topology]] which exerts pleasures normally unavailable to Euclidean organisms.


File:Peano_Curve_(sexual_topology).jpg|link=Peano curve (sexual topology)|The [[Peano curve (sexual topology)|Peano curve]] is an alleged transdimensional sexual [[Topology (nonfiction)|topology]] which exerts pleasures normally unavailable to Euclidean organisms.
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:High and Monstrous - downloadable breakfast treats.jpg|link=High and Monstrous|[[High and Monstrous]] downloadable breakfast treats version 1.0, now with Overstimulated Adrenal Gland Garnish — !
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:One Toke Over the Thin Blue Line.jpg|link=One Toke Over the Thin Blue Line|"One toke over the Thin Blue Line, sweet Jesus / One toke over the Thin Blue Line ..."
File:Jerusalem math virus.jpg|link=Jerusalem (math virus)|link=Jerusalem (math virus)|Effects of the [[Jerusalem (math virus)|Jerusalem math virus]]: <br><br>Bring me my bow of burning code!<br>Bring me my arrows of Netwire!<br>Bring me my files! To Cloud, upload!<br>Bring me my CPU of fire!


File:Pink_Trombone_and_Taffy_Bomb.jpg|link=Pink Trombone and Taffy Bomb|[[Pink Trombone and Taffy Bomb]].
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:Cretaceous Office Supplies 2.png|link=Cretaceous Office Supplies|[[Cretaceous Office Supplies]] is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides office supplies and associated support services to the Cretaceous period (the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic).
File:Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado.jpg|link=Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?|"[[Did you step on a butterfly in Texas during a tornado while watching Jurassic Park in Brazil under the influence of JJ-180?]]"


File:Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.jpg|link=Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang|"[[Liquid Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang]]" (LCCBB), a downloadable cologne. The bottle's distinctive automobile design has an unusual feature — two decorative spare tires which conceal a Fleming valve. When activated, the valve emits "putt-putts" of ionized cologne.
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:Dharma-Laden Duo.jpg|link=Dharma-Laden Duo (nonfiction)|[[Dharma-Laden Duo (nonfiction)|Dharma-Laden Duo]].
File:High and Monstrous - downloadable breakfast treats.jpg|link=High and Monstrous|[[High and Monstrous]] downloadable breakfast treats version 1.0, now with Overstimulated Adrenal Gland Garnish — !


File:Higher State (1990 film).jpg|link=The way the sixties are going|"[[The way the sixties are going|The way the Sixties are going]], the Fifties are going the make the Forties feel like the Thirties!"
File:Higher State (1990 film).jpg|link=The way the sixties are going|"[[The way the sixties are going|The way the Sixties are going]], the Fifties are going the make the Forties feel like the Thirties!"
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: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.
File:Tardigrade spacecraft aft berth.jpg|link=Tardigrade spacecraft|[[Tardigrade spacecraft]] are any of various types of spacecraft occupied by tardigrades. This image from the aft berth compartment shows a scan-view of a passenger in its characteristic "cabbage pod" space suit.
File:They_Live,_We_Eat.jpg|link=They Live, We Eat|Promotional art for ''[[They Live, We Eat]]'', a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
File:We Don't Need No Thought Control (They Live).jpg|link=They Live, We Study|''[[They Live, We Study]]'' is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating aliens.


File:My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe.jpg|link=My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe|'''[[My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe]]''' is an ongoing real-time reality TV show starring "Dungeon Man Jack" (the incarnate shade of a long-dead Jack Nicholson). The show follows the lives and deaths of Dungeons and Dragons fans who challenge DM Jack for ownership of the [[Underlook Hotel]] in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe.jpg|link=My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe|'''[[My Secret Dope Clerk Doses Up Your Eerie Foe]]''' is an ongoing real-time reality TV show starring "Dungeon Man Jack" (the incarnate shade of a long-dead Jack Nicholson). The show follows the lives and deaths of Dungeons and Dragons fans who challenge DM Jack for ownership of the [[Underlook Hotel]] in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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: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."
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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: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:Deacon Billy.jpg|link=Deacon Billy|''[[Deacon Billy]]'' is a proposed film in which actor Dennis Hopper will play Deacon Billy, a Merchant Marine captain who trades his ship and crew for the last motorcycle on Earth.
 
File:Tardigrade spacecraft aft berth.jpg|link=Tardigrade spacecraft|[[Tardigrade spacecraft]] are any of various types of spacecraft occupied by tardigrades. This image from the aft berth compartment shows a scan-view of a passenger in its characteristic "cabbage pod" space suit.


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: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:The Birth of Alienation.jpg|link=The Birth of Alienation|''[[The Birth of Alienation]]'' is a proposed film prank in which the historic film Birth of a Nation will be temporarily replaced by a high-budget spoof version, The Birth of Alienation.
 
File:We Don't Need No Thought Control (They Live).jpg|link=They Live, We Study|''[[They Live, We Study]]'' is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating aliens.


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