Odd ATWQ Real-Life Coincidence Thread

[Antenora]

Sure, the new series isn't out yet, but we have enough content that we can spot coincidences.

I was inspired to make this thread by finding these two links:

Comics about octopus ink, whose concurrence is itself coincidental.

"What a disaster. They've managed to answer the wrong question!"

[Christmas Chief]

I think others have post some ATWQ coincidences in the ASOUE Coincidence thread already, but in this case I might mention the octopus Antenora pointed out today was actually linked to in an article I read a few hours later.

[ghostie]

Yay, this thread's officially here! *intense ATWQ anticipation*

[Antenora]

Pertinent to Chapter 2, the longest-tongued bat in the world.

Also, earlier today I attended a linguistics class wherein the professor listed the English WH-words.

[A]

Anternora! Your back!
_{Dante will be happy}

Yesterday, my teacher said "a good way to learn is to ask the right questions. The wrong questions will get you nowhere."

[Antenora]

I thought the name of the "Bombinating Beast" (mentioned in a catalog entry that Dante discovered) sounded like that of an Internet animation critter named Trogdor the Burninator:


Doesn't that creature itself kind of look familiar?


Edit: an even better coincidence now that we know that the statue is (or represents) the "Bombinating Beast"!

[csc]

Jun 15, 2012 20:27:59 GMT -5 A said:

Anternora! Your back!

Oh God, what's on her back?

[Cafe SalMONAlla]

Jun 27, 2012 12:07:25 GMT -5 @csc said:

Jun 15, 2012 20:27:59 GMT -5 A said:

Anternora! Your back!

Oh God, what's on her back?

I think it's one of those weird little seahorse-with-teeth things that she was just talking about!

[Dante]

I saw an old poster in a store that struck me as slightly Seth-y.

[B.]

My sister, on discovering her purple marker was unusable, exclaimed "Where has all the ink gone?"

[Dante]

This town used to be by the sea. What happened?

[Groge]

crazy pics Dante! you could almost say "the land as been stain'd by the sea"... *rolls eyes suspiciously*

[Anka]

I'm on holiday in a village which used to be by the sea, but the sea has moved away. It looks almost like in Dante's pictures.

[Christmas Chief]

We used to have a Neighborhood Watch sign in my community, the logo of which rather reminds me of the shadow from the American cover of WCTBATH:

[Antenora]

I've actually spotted a couple just this week:

The book Johnny Tremain was on sale at a used-book sale on my campus.

While perusing TV listings last night, I saw one for the 1934 horror film The Black Cat (for which the coffee shop is named, and whose trailer appears on that confusing website).

I also realized that the "conversational maxim of manner" devised by linguist H. P. Grice:

Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).

...is amusingly reminiscent of Theodora's reprimand to Lemony i in the first chapter:

“Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before."