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From the Phallus in Wonderland wiki page:

Phallus in Wonderland was GWAR’s first attempt at a commercially released, long-form movie. The story follows the story of GWAR’s conflict with the Morality Squad, after the theft of Oderus Urungus‘ “Cuttlefish of Cthulhu” (or penis). Meanwhile, the giant T-Rex, Gor-Gor is born and helps GWAR defeat the Morality Squad. The video was nominated for a Grammy in 1993 (which they lost to Metallica, as mentioned in the 1994 song “Jack The World“).

From the Peter North wiki page:

In 1994, Peter North released a guide to meeting and dating beautiful women called Penetrating Insights. ^[12] The book also includes tips on everything from grooming to personal health.

He is well known for being in excellent physical shape, even as he enters his fifties.^{[citation needed]}. He is a workout buff.^[13] Legendary pornstar Christy Canyon confirmed a longstanding rumor in her 2003 porn autobiography Lights, Camera, SEX!, revealing that North does not like to have his hair touched during a scene, as it causes him to lose his concentration.

From the Custer’s Revenge wiki page:

Custer’s Revenge (also known as Westward Ho and The White Man Came) is a pornographic video game made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique, a company that produced a number of adult video game titles for the system. The main character was based on General George Custer.^[1]

The game was first released on October 13, 1982, and has received significant criticism because of its crude simulation of an apparent rape of a Native American woman.^[2][3] As a result, it has been credited as being one of the worst games ever made.^[4]

Controversy

Custer’s Revenge gained notoriety for its peculiar plot. The game prompted criticism from women’s rights groups who stated that the game was a simulation of rape; the back of the packaging states “she’s not about to take it lying down, by George! Help is on the way.” Other groups such as Women Against Pornography, Native American spokespersons, and critics of the video game industry in general protested the game. Andrea Dworkin claimed the game “generated many gang rapes of Native American women.”^[5]

Aside from complaints over the game’s sexual content, many found the gameplay simplistic. People also found the pornography element of the game inadequate—the two characters’ appearances have been compared to Lego bricks or cardboard boxes.^[6]

The focused media attention caused the game to sell approximately 80,000 copies, twice as many copies as Mystique’s other X-rated games, Bachelor Party and Beat ‘Em & Eat ‘Em.

From the Backmasking wiki page:

Backmasking (also known as backward masking)^[1] is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. Backmasking is a deliberate process, whereas a message found through phonetic reversal may be unintentional.

Backmasking has been a controversial topic in the United States since the 1980s, when allegations from Christian groups of its use for Satanic purposes were made against prominent rock musicians, leading to record-burning protests and proposed anti-backmasking legislation by state and federal governments. Whether backmasked messages exist is in debate, as is whether backmasking can be used subliminally to affect listeners.

Allegations of demonic backmasking were also made by social psychologists, parents, and critics of rock music,^[23] as well as the Parents Music Resource Center (formed in 1985),^[24] which accused Led Zeppelin of using backmasking to promote Satanism.^[25] On the April 28, 1982 edition of the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather discussed the finding of possible backmasked messages, and played reversed sections of songs by Led Zeppelin, Electric Light Orchestra and Styx.^[26]

Legislation

One result of the furor was the firing of five radio DJs who had encouraged listeners to search for backward messages in their record collections.^[16] A more serious consequence was legislation by the state governments of Arkansas and California. The 1983 California bill was introduced to prevent backmasking that “can manipulate our behavior without our knowledge or consent and turn us into disciples of the Antichrist“.^[27] Involved in the discussion on the bill was a California State Assembly Consumer Protection and Toxic Materials Committee hearing, during which “Stairway to Heaven” was played backwards, and William Yaroll testified.^[28] The successful bill made the distribution of records with undeclared backmasking an invasion of privacy for which the distributor could be sued.^[21] The Arkansas law passed unanimously in 1983, referenced albums by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Electric Light Orchestra, Queen and Styx,^[17] and mandated that records with backmasking include a warning sticker: “Warning: This record contains backward masking which may be perceptible at a subliminal level when the record is played forward.” However, the bill was returned to the state senate by Governor Bill Clinton and defeated.^[21] House Resolution 6363, introduced in 1982 by Representative Bob Dornan (R-California), proposed mandating a similar label;^[29] the bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism and was never passed.^[30] Government action was also called for in the legislatures of Texas and Canada.^[21]

From the Captive Bolt Pistol wiki page:

A captive bolt pistol (also variously known as a cattle gun, stunbolt gun, bolt gun, or stunner) is a device used for stunning animals prior to slaughter. Proper stunning is essential to prevent the pain and suffering of the animal during the bleeding (exsanguination) process (which is itself necessary to prevent meat spoilage) during butchering. The principle behind captive bolt stunning is a forceful strike on the forehead using a bolt to induce unconsciousness. The bolt may or may not destroy part of the brain.

In the penetrating type, the stunner uses a pointed bolt which is propelled by pressurized air or a blank cartridge. The bolt penetrates the skull of the animal, enters the cranium, and catastrophically damages the cerebrum and part of the cerebellum. Due to concussion, destruction of vital centres of brain and an increase in intracranial pressure, the animal loses consciousness. This method is currently the most effective and widely used type of stunning, since it physically destroys brain matter (increasing the probability of a successful stun), while also leaving the brain stem intact (thus ensuring the heart continues to beat, facilitating a successful bleed). One disadvantage of this method is that brain matter is allowed into the blood stream, possibly contaminating other tissue with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) .

From the Dyatlov Pass Incident wiki page:

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains. The incident happened on the night of February 2, 1959 on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат Сяхл) (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group’s leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).

The mysterious circumstances and subsequent investigations of the hikers’ deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigations of the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.^[1] According to sources, the victims’ clothing contained high levels of radiation – though this was likely added at a later date, since no reference is made to it in contemporary documentation and only in later documents.^[1] Soviet investigators determined only that “a compelling unknown force” had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter.^[1] The causes of the accident remain unclear.^[2][3]

There was evidence that the team was forced to leave the camp during the night, as they were sleeping. Though the temperature was very low (around -25° to -30°C) with a storm blowing, the dead were dressed only partially, and certainly inadequately for the conditions. Some of them had only one shoe, while others had no shoes or wore only socks.^[1] Some were found wrapped in snips of ripped clothes which seemed to be cut from those who were already dead.

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From the Machine Elf wiki page:

Machine elves (also known as fractal elves, self-transforming machine elves) is a term coined by the ethnobotanist, writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the apparent entities that some people claimed to become aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially DMT.^[1] References to such encounters can be found in many cultures ranging from shamanic traditions of Native Americans to indigenous Australians and African tribes, as well as among Western users of these substances.^[2]

Reasoning

This concept may be related to a tendency for the brain to imagine living entities during certain altered states. The best example of this is the extremely common feeling of a living presence during sleep paralysis (which has been theorized as the origin of the succubus, as well as a common theme in many alien abduction stories). However, Terence McKenna and Dr. Rick Strassman have both asserted the sense of reality of the experience is distinct from ordinary hallucinatory experiences, leading both researchers to speculate that perhaps the physics of many worlds is involved.^[1] Jacques Vallee has proposed that the entities met may be of an interdimensional nature in his interdimensional hypothesis.^{[citation needed]}

James Kent has put forth a different explanation for machine elves.^[3] Kent postulates that the DMT landscape is simply disrupting or “editing” our processing of visual information and causing a chaotic interpretation of it inspired by hyperactive phosphene activity. The brain may fill in the blanks and since we all have an affinity for anthropomorphic things, a humanoid entity may appear out of all this chaos. Our “imaginal workplace” will take the center stage in brain activity, allowing internal data to be interpreted as external stimuli.

When reflecting upon his mescaline experiences Aldous Huxley suggested that there was something, which he called Mind at Large, which was filtered by the ordinary functioning of the human brain to produce ordinary experience. ^[4]

From the Curse of Ham wiki page:

The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse that Ham’s father Noah placed upon Ham’s son Canaan, after Ham “saw his father’s nakedness” because of drunkenness in Noah’s tent. It is related in the Book of Genesis 9:20-27.

Some Biblical scholars see the “curse of Canaan” story as an early Hebrew rationalization for Israel’s conquest and enslavement of the Canaanites, who were presumed to descend from Canaan.^[1]

The “curse of Ham” had been used by some members of Abrahamic religions to justify racism and the enslavement of people of Black African ancestry, who were believed to be descendants of Ham. They were often called Hamites and were believed to have descended through Canaan or his older brothers. This racist theory was widely held during the 18th-20th centuries, but it has been largely abandoned since the mid-20th century.

Ham is not directly cursed for his actions; instead the curse falls upon his youngest son Canaan. The curse seems unusually severe for merely observing Noah unclothed. An explanation sometimes offered notes that the phrase “exposing or uncovering nakedness” is used several times elsewhere in the Pentateuch as a euphemism for having sexual relations.

From the Fangoria wiki page:

Fangoria is an internationally-distributed US film fan magazine specializing in the genres of horror, slasher, splatter and exploitation films, in regular publication since 1979.

Warehouse Fire

On December 5, 2007, a warehouse operated by Kable News, in Oregon, Illinois, which contained all back issues of Fangoria and Starlog magazines, burned to the ground. As back issues of Fangoria are not re-printed, the only remaining back issues are now housed in private collections.^[10]

From the Spanish profanity wiki page:

This article is a summary of Spanish profanity, referred to in the Spanish language as lenguaje soez (low language), maldiciones (curse words), malas palabras (bad words), insultos (insults), vulgaridades (vulgarities), juramentos (oaths – swearing), palabrotas (lit. “big words”), tacos (in Spain), lisuras (in Peru), puteadas (in Argentina), desvergue in El Salvador, garabatos (gibberish or shootings/firings in Chile), or groserías (impolite words). Spanish profanity varies in Spanish-speaking nations, and even in regions of the same nation. Several of these words have linguistic and historical significance.

Verbs denoting the act of sexual congress

The following verbs are equivalent to the verb “to fuck” in English, though not always in all its possible meanings, and mostly limited to specific geographic regions.

• Chaquetear is a verb that can be used as to masturbate mainly in Mexico. It is not used in European Spanish. In Chile, it means “to change one’s posture rapidly”^{[citation needed]}.

It has another possible meaning in Mexican Spanish: “to create false hopes” or “to hallucinate”, hacerse una chaqueta mental (literally “To make a mental masturbation”); compare to the English expression “mental masturbation” and to the European Spanish paja mental, which is an almost literal translation of the English phrase

• Chimar is another variant of “to fuck” used in Guatemala.

• Chinquechar is an equivalent of the verb chingar. However, chinquechar is used mostly for “to have sex” (mostly in northern and western Mexico).

• Cachar is commonly used in Peru for “to have sex”. In Chile it can have this meaning when used as a noun (cacha, pegarse una cachita; “to have a little sex”), but it’s mainly used for “to understand”. It comes from the English “to catch” something or someone.
• Mámalo is a Mexican-American Spanish term meaning “suck him off”. It is commonly considered slang when used between males (as in the adjective mamalón, which means “outstanding”) and derogatory when spoken to females. Comes from the verb mamar which means “lactate” (the act of sucking a breast to feed from its milk) which is used as a verb for fellatio in Spanish from the Americas.
• Picar, translated as “to sting”, could also mean “to have sex”, as a metaphor for the insertion of the penis in the vagina.

Paja

Paja directly translates to English as “straw“, used in farms for cattle and other animals to lie on. In South America, Puerto Rico and Panama hacerse la paja (correrse la paja, in Chile and Peru) means to masturbate. In most parts of Central America and the Spanish Caribbean (and Chile as well) to masturbate is to pajearse. In South America, Spain, and the Dominican Republic paja is more often used as hacerse una paja. Pajero, or Pajillero in Spain, is a masturbator (wanker) and also can imply a weakling or a fool, due to cultural beliefs that masturbation created mental weakness. In certain countries, such as Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, Pajero (fem. Pajera) can also mean lazy person, and in Guatemala and Honduras it means liar, Vos sos bien pajero = “you’re such a liar”. In Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras and El Salvador, hablar paja can mean either to talk nonsense tú solo hablas (pura) paja = “you’re just talking nonsense” or small talk estuve hablando paja con un amigo = “I was making small talk with a friend”. After this, calling a person pajoso/a means he/she either lies a lot or speaks nonsense. However, to call someone pajúo/a means he/she is a stupid person.

Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has a sport utility model called Pajero. The original intention was to call the car after a South American wildcat, but the company’s failure to check other uses of the word caused many chuckles. In the Americas and in Spain, the vehicle was rebadged as the Montero. (It has since been replaced in North America by the Mitsubishi Endeavor.) In Peru, paja can also mean cool: qué paja tu carro = “your car is cool/nice”.