Rare texts are kinda my jam, a few highlights in my collection:
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A signed first edition of the Necronomicon (it still screams and bleeds)
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An early draft of the 10 commandments (before it got narrowed down to just 10)
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The treatise between cats and dogs that lead to cats getting litter boxes and dogs getting walks
“The lord has given unto you these 15 —”
crash
“… 10 commandments!”
Crazy that they removed the screaming from subsequent editions of the Necronomicon. Nowadays it’s gone through so many revisions new copies don’t even bleed. Sometimes the modern special editions will whimper a bit, but that’s all you get.
Finding a untainted (no gooning!) virgin is near impossible, so getting the books to even give off an evil aura is next to impossible.
Also, since the 3rd Cosmic Revelation, there’s no requirement to sign a pact with Cthulhu to print a copy, so quality control has dropped significantly.
FYI, a treatise is not the same as a treaty.
It was a long time ago and they were just guessing at what written language was even going to look like. That they got it in perfect English minus one word is remarkable.
Don’t tell them that
This guy could sell a letter written (in French!) by Jesus himself, among other rarities 😁 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Vrain-Lucas
Oh man, when French Jesus turns water into wine, you know it’s good…
Some people deserve to be ripped off. It seems like this guy didn’t even try to make it convincing, yet they still sold.
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I didn’t know such a stupid line existed because I didn’t watch such a stupid movie.
How can you all enjoy eating something you know gives you the shit?
Little known fact: the author of The Iliad and the voice actor of Poochie the Dog are the same person!
Holy shit, Dan Castellaneta wrote The Iliad!?
He does so much extra work, I figured he would have fuck you money from Simpsons as it is
If anybody’s wondering… (Youtube link)
Also, ooof. Not that this looks to be a fine piece of cinema, but the writer didn’t put this into the script, the director did. Apparently it’s an 1884 printing of an 1853 edition of a 1720 translation (Pope’s), so in no way whatsoever is it first edition of, well, anything. Maybe the worst part of it is that there was absolutely no reason to linger over the title. They never even say the name of the book.
Someone in the props department snuck in a joke.
The description says “psychological thriller”, but the cinematography is giving me “Netflix romcom”.
That’s nothing. I have a signed first edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Probably just mixed in with your correspondence regarding copper ingots.
This might beat the scene in The Passion of the Christ where Jesus invents the dining table with chairs.
Reminds me of that great classic:
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Table for 26?
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But… You’re with 13 people.
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Yes, but we like to sit on the same side of the table.
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He was a lousy carpenter according to scholars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OclYAJhyNY0
He most likely wasn’t a carpenter at all, the Greek just says ‘builder’. Probably a stone mason
so you are saying Jesus was a stoner?
That explains the awful table.
I’ve heard that it’s really not worth that much unless Homer signed his last name too which apparently was pretty rare.
I’m more curious as to what his middle initial J. stands for… d’oh!
It’s Jay, icydk. :-D
Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
Middle of the bell curve: haha she’s stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece
Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)
Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.
She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.
I just googled this is actually in the film. The mind boggles
What’s like the coolest, most impressive literary book you can think of? But it has to be something most idiots will recognize.
I don’t know, The Iliad?
Awesome. I need a rare book for this screenplay I’m writing. “First edition, signed copy…”
This is an AI style blunder.
every copy can be a signed copy, just get a pen
Glasses make you more clever. This is why I wear a higher prescription than I actually need.
It’s okay because when your friend decides to give you a makeover so you can be “hot” they just need to take your glasses off after they fix your hair. It’s fine really. No issues at all. Why did you have them on in the first place?
Wow, and here I thought the writer of that book, Homer Simpson, didn’t exist!!
She keeps that copy near the toilet so that she has a light read on hand for those post-Taco Bell sweat inducing shits.
I have a signed copy of the Bible.
To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
(Joke stolen from Red Dwarf series 2, episode 2, “Better Than Life”.)
You have to be careful with those. I heard that YHWH has whole sweatshops full of elves copying his signature, and they sell these Bibles to tourists to raise money for yacht parties (“YHWH YCHT PRTY YOLO NSFW IRL!!!”).
