The Disappearing Panda

[J. Rook]

What has happened to Panda? Who or what is Derek? Is he darkly significant?

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

I think people found pandas to be too sweet to be used as negative rating tool Who is Derek I have no clue.

 

[Marc Joan]

You do not know Derek, but Derek knows you. Derek sees you. He sees your dreams. He has always seen your dreams.

Ia Derek! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Derek R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

OK, it's going to be one of those days...

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Ok, I'm no stranger to Lovecraftian mythology, but I never heard of Derek. Who is he, Yog-Sothoth's bastard son? No, wait, that one was Wilbur

 

[KG Christopher]

Actually...what is derek? at first I thought it was a panda, or a crab, but now I'm not too sure. The other 'indicators' are pretty self evident.

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Looks like a scull with wings to me...

 

[KG Christopher]

Looks like a scull with wings to me...

There is no way its a 'scull with wings'. I think you need some professional help Bluma , it looks more like a stork delivering a baby.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Or a fox with wings....

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

Storks are not brown I found this via google: "Derek is a moody dragon nesting in the mountains, terrorizing cattle and townsfolk alike.". Would fit

 

[KG Christopher]

Sorry Bluma, I cannot concur with your proposition, in fact a Stork is more likely to be brown than a dragon is likely to exist.

A fox with wings is a flyinq squiril, and it doen's look like one of those either???

 

[Patricia D]

Derek had a band known as the Dominos

 

[Madeleine Conway]

Mei el heshla...

I have no idea how you spell that, but we say it often in my house.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Derek had a band known as the Dominos

Saw him live, front row. When they started Layla, everyone rushed forward. Total spine-tingler.

 

[Marc Joan]

Saw him live, front row. When they started Layla, everyone rushed forward. Total spine-tingler.

That's the Domino effect.

 

[Marc Joan]

That's the Domino effect.

I wear each Groan awarded as a badge of honour. So there.

 

[AgentPete]

See, this is one reason I love this place... “high-minded banter rubbing shoulders with low-down wit...” that’s Cafe Life for you... nowhere else like it!

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Looks like a scull with wings to me...

I thought it was a squirrel shaking its head...>.>

 

[Katie-Ellen]

A dragon squirrel with diarrhoea.

 

[KG Christopher]

I have spent close to 1 whole hour of my life looking at this -- thing -- and I am nowhere nearer to knowing what it is. Can we have the pandas back please?

 

[Jason Byrne]

You do not know Derek, but Derek knows you. Derek sees you. He sees your dreams. He has always seen your dreams.

Ia Derek! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Derek R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

Ok, I'm no stranger to Lovecraftian mythology, but I never heard of Derek. Who is he, Yog-Sothoth's bastard son? No, wait, that one was Wilbur

As it happens, the children of Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath (the black goat of the woods with a thousand young iä iä) were the twins Nug and Yeb. Nug bore Cthulhu, and Yeb the dread toad-god Tsathoggua.

Derek was probably in there somewhere.

 

[Marc Joan]

If this is Tsathoggua-:

-then I can tell you that the dread toad-god speaks with a monotonal Brummy accent and believes himself to be remarkably astute, cultured and sophisticated, despite all independent opinion. Because he was the CEO of a company I once worked at (for my sins).

 

[KG Christopher]

Pandas have it hard....

 

[Bluma Bezbroda]

As it happens, the children of Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath (the black goat of the woods with a thousand young iä iä) were the twins Nug and Yeb.

That why I said "bastard son"

Also, all the <3 for mentoning the goat with the thousand young. It is THAT kind of creepy shit that I read Lovecraft for.

 

[J. Rook]

I have spent close to 1 whole hour of my life looking at this -- thing -- and I am nowhere nearer to knowing what it is. Can we have the pandas back please?

I have executed a little link following. Derek is classified as "dark". I thought Derek was an eagle, but he is not. Under the highest magnification I can manage he looks rather like a clump of moving sea-weed. Je n'aime pas le Derek. I demand that he is revealed during the link-up tomorrow.

 

[J. Rook]

Pandas have it hard....

Paul Sweeny - poor Panda bear - poignant!

 

[Sea-shore]

Derek had a band known as the Dominos

My children (8 and 5) both rushed over to head bang and play air-guitar when I clicked on this! Thanks!

 

[Jason Byrne]

My children (8 and 5) both rushed over to head bang and play air-guitar when I clicked on this! Thanks!

Your kids are the most awesome thing in the history of ever, and it will totally not go to their heads if you tell them I said so.

 

[Jason Byrne]

Pandas have it hard....

See! Cheer up sad panda! It will all work out in the end!
I'm catching up — only just saw this, and it made my morning.
I will totally complement any panda I come across. But I'm not giving them pity-sex.

80% for sure about that.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

80% for sure about that.

 

[Marc Joan]

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Concerned for the pandas, I guess you mean...