11-24-2020, 09:05 AM | #2391 | |
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11-28-2020, 02:16 PM | #2392 |
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Agloe was a fictional town in New York put on Esso maps as a copyright trap. In the 1950s a general store was built there named the Agloe General Store. This resulted in a lawsuit in which Esso sued Rand McNally for infringement based on their inclusion of Agloe on their map. Rand McNally pointed out that Agloe was now a real place and won the suit. Agloe disappeared again after the store went out of business although for a while Google Maps was under the misimpression that it was a real place.
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11-28-2020, 06:24 PM | #2393 |
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I can see the plot in a back room of Rand-McNally now...
"How did it get past all the fact checks?" "Trap towns are deliberately hard to notice. Some poor intern skips a line in a table or something... this was bound to happen eventually." "Well can't we just say it was an accident?" "Esso's going to notice as soon as someone picks up our latest from a competitor's gas station, and plagiarism is serious business." "So what do we do?" "...gas station... I've got an idea." |
11-29-2020, 06:21 AM | #2394 | ||
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You can see it on Google Earth images since 2016. Quote:
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11-30-2020, 03:29 PM | #2395 | |
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11-30-2020, 03:54 PM | #2396 |
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Zombie artists. Great. Just what we needed.
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11-30-2020, 04:32 PM | #2397 | |
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12-01-2020, 08:04 AM | #2398 |
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Okay, Mr. Les Nessman.
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12-02-2020, 09:18 AM | #2399 |
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Corpses buried in a humid, airless environment can have their body fat transformed into a waxy substance called adipocere, or corpse wax. This can be used to make things like candles, which would surely be useful as material components for demonic and necromantic rituals, as well as the more unpleasant alchemical elixirs.
A necromancer may even construct a special chamber with such an environment and steal bodies to bury there. Formation time is two weeks to two months, so you don't need a particularly long time to make it. Obese people would be preferred, as they have more fat per pound of body weight.
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12-02-2020, 09:38 AM | #2400 | |
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