214. Oh Shit! That Guy's Got Horse Legs!

Lords

• Daniel
  • https://www.cocoongame.com/
  • https://kbones.itch.io/dorks
• Alexander

Topics:

• Octopus dreams
• Perception of memories. Why does actual recency and percieved recency often seem so at odds
• Hike on 58
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
• World of Warcraft over the years / WoW Hardcore Mode
• The highest honor you can receive in mathematics is to have your name uncapitalized.
• Polywater
• My brain is polluted by trochaic trimeter recognition

Microtopics:

• Preventative care.
• COVID lucky streaks.
• Being able to go to the ER.
• How to spell Cocoon.
• Moth guys carrying orbs on their backs.
• Boss battles that you wouldn't expect.
• Wilford Brimley's agelessness.
• Octopus nightmares.
• The octopus equivalent of rapid eye movement.
• Meeting sapient crows and asking them whether Y or Z should be up.
• Which memories stick better.
• Perception of time when you have a routine vs. when you don't.
• Arranging your life to maximize perceived lifespan.
• Different ways to have an adventure.
• Shooby doooby doggie.
• A sports rule that sounds like a 17776 plot point
• Why the Bob Emergency is an emergency.
• The best quarterbacks getting stuck in an endless hike and football ending forever.
• The one person who hasn't played Frog Fractions but just listens to Topic Lords because they like topics so much.
• Summer's lease.
• Reading a poem aloud without knowing what "ow'st" means or how to pronounce it.
• Words that used to rhyme but don't anymore.
• Meter recognize meter.
• Writing all your sonnets during COVID lockdown.
• A poem about a dude that Shakespeare is not in love with.
• Woe is me, etc.
• Piss Jugman vs Piss Jugm'n.
• Making phonetic reforms that don't take.
• Smoothing off any rough edges or peculiarities.
• Permadeath taking inspiration from real life.
• A fun thing that you wouldn't have expected to see.
• Enjoying spending time in the world.
• Hold the W key and cruise through it.
• The difference between wanting something vs. liking it.
• Abelian.
• The opposite of how you would think honor works.
• Great honors: brands hate them!
• Whether to capitalize "lynchian," "kafkaesque" or "quixotic"
• Eternal abstract universal objects.
• Teaching truck drivers where to put their piss jugs.
• The highest honor Piss Jugman can receive.
• The surname Piss.
• What is the average Piss lifespan?
• A real life Bobby Tables moment.
• The Polywater Gap.
• Water that scientists have sweated in.
• Buying a can of Soviet Scientist Sweat in a Japanese vending machine.
• Polyester intoxication.
• Liquids with a lower freezing temperature than water.
• The Polywater Doodle.
• A metabolism described by Richard Feynman.
• Brain Pollution.
• The particular better of the first line of Aqualung by Jethro Tull.
• Singing "parallelipiped" to the tune of Aqualung.
• Hearing random phrases in your life.
• Spelling "yogurt" backwards.
• Trying to understand the New York Times' effect on man.
• A killer rap album based on alliteration rather than rhyming.
• Poetry that rhymes on the second to last syllable rather than the last.
• The baffling cosmology of Butter Dorks.