Well this changes the tone
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@lpl yes but it costs one soul
@HailsandAles But what if I use the offercode FIRSTBORN25 ?
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@HailsandAles now I'm picturing it as a true crime podcast, complete with copious pauses.
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@HailsandAles Similar vibe to that post that was doing the rounds a few days ago. https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

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The Vampire Lestat here. Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became a creature who can fly through the air.

@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

A) You stole that from me retroactively.
B) LMAO
C) Goddammit Ben.

@Jorsh @TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

Host: Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. It has long been a question interesting to both the psychologist and the zoologist how to interpret the social lives of ... certain members of the order Hymenoptera. This live stream will settle it! Let's welcome our Formicarian guest: she will set us right with her thoughts on other insects AND on us humans!

Wawaque: Hi everyone! It's great to be here.

Host: So, what inspired you to share your tale?

@Jorsh @TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

I've been working on a youTube video about "Consider Her Ways"

Mr. Grove might not like the update, but he is dead and I'm excited.

https://archive.org/details/considerherways0000grov/

Consider her ways : Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxxii, 298 p. ; 21 cm

Internet Archive
@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles In West Transylvania born and raised, in the graveyard is where I spent most of my daysโ€ฆ.

@atomicbird
@TheBreadmonkey

chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool
and all drinkin' some type b outside of the school
when a couple other vamps who were up to no good
started makin' trouble in my neighborhood

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@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles

*Record scratch* *freeze frame* *voice over*

"You may be wondering how I got into this situation..."

@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles Obviously he had to leave Philly because of all the cheesestakes.
@TheBreadmonkey @HailsandAles If you watch the channel you know I love me some blood which is why I'm happy to tell you about today's sponsor, Jugulaire....

@HailsandAles That's literally how OddBawz, a YouTuber I've been following for quite a few years, opens his War Thunder replay videos. With "a wee bit" of a Scottish accent. So now I can't "unhear" that when reading that introduction in the book.

Who knew Lestat was a Scottish YouTuber, eh?

@HailsandAles But first, a word about Raid: Something Or Other, you're just going to skip this bit, I'll put the chapter marker in when it's done.
@HailsandAles I wonder if that works for Moby Dick too.

@HailsandAles

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

@Keab42 @HailsandAles

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I canโ€™t be sure.

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didnโ€™t know what I was doing in New York.

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

@Keab42 @HailsandAles

Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube Channel. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ๐Ÿ™

@HailsandAles Is that really how the book starts?

Yikes, kinda rough.

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@HailsandAles it's very petty of me not to get past YouTube 'chanel'
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We're back with another trauma unboxing video!
@HailsandAles But does it?
Without the (spot on) context written in pencil, that may well be the most awful first paragraph I've ever read in a book.
@HailsandAles My stomach hurts from laughing too much on this
@HailsandAles @gwynnion Hey guys, welcome to my Youtube channel. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
@HailsandAles Having never read the book but lived in its cultural aftermath... wow that is not how I would've voiced the Vampire Lestat.