Anonymous asked:

Hastur and the avocado joke - what's funny about it? Sorry not a native speaker, I don't get it. Is that a pun? On what?

fuckyeahgoodomens answered:

It is a reference to the book: 

Then Pollution said, slowly, “You know, I can’t say I imagined it’d be somewhere like this, either. I thought it’d be, well, a big city. Or a big country. New York, perhaps. Or Moscow. Or Armageddon itself.”

There was another pause.

Then War said, “Where is Armageddon, anyway?”

“Funny you should ask,” said Famine. “I’ve always meant to look it up.”

“There’s an Armageddon, Pennsylvania,” said Pollution. “Or maybe it’s Massachusetts, or one of them places. Lots of guys in heavy beards and seriously black hats.”

“Nah,” said Famine. “It’s somewhere in Israel, I think.”

MOUNT CARMEL.

“I thought that was where they grow avocados.”

AND THE END OF THE WORLD.

“Is that right? That’s one big avocado.”

“I think I went there once,” said Pollution. “The old city of Megiddo. Just before it fell down. Nice place. Interesting royal gateway.”

proficientatfreakness replied to your post “Hastur and the avocado joke - what’s funny about it? Sorry not a…”

I had someone explain this to me! Let’s see if I can convey it to you: Apparently, they grow avocados there. Since armaggeddon happens in that place, it must be an avocado as well. A really big one, because it will end the world.

So, basically that, yeah. It’s a reference to the book about not that much funny joke that The End Of The World is basically a big avocado because it pops up at the same place as are avocados grown…