"In the one week I've been on this base, I've had to do my job a dozen times, this is unacceptable"

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History of the Salton Sea, "one of America's worst environmental catastrophes" https://allthatsinteresting.com/salton-sea-history
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This feels like a Science Movie by the US Government

"The Salton Sea And YOU"

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Nobody's named Jules anymore. It's a good name.

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@jivens @combatwombat @JoeWynne @paco

I wonder if there would be demand for an event maybe 5-6 hours earlier* that shows a selection of previous #Monsterdon films
- give people a chance to catch films they missed
- give people in & around GMT time zones a better chance to join in

(I first thought 2 hours earlier then remembered I have to give an online class then. Doh!)

Chekhov's Ax is going to be a highlight of this weeks #monsterdon 😂

@neonbubble the option to participate via the #Monsterdon Replay is always there if you would prefer to watch at another time

https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

Or at times people have floated the idea of a separate showing at a different time. Nobody who views from one of those inconvenienced timezones has yet taken it upon themselves to organize such a thing, but it wouldn't take very much doing at all.

@sandbender The Monster That Moderately Inconvenienced One Municipality #Monsterdon

thank you @Taweret , that was fun! and thanks to everyone for all the hilarious commentary!

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And our movie is finished with the usual abrupt ending. Classic.

From full-on monster attack to problem-resolved sum-up lines and rolling credits in about 20 seconds.

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The Monster that Challenged The World (1957) - 3/5

+ monster
+ drained guys
- coherent
- undrained guys

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What snail-like pincers this monster has.

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I feel like I would maybe give it a couple days before I advised jumping back in the water, just sayin.

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"You can go swimming again!"
"Can I?"
"Yes, after we're finished standing in the middle of traffic"

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#monsterdon Still, it's good to see that somebody in the navy remembered to bring a gun.

oh cool I guess the whole monster is on a rolling cart or something so they could back it away and turn it, nice

also, y'all, we already clearly established that the creature's skin is not easily penetrated by *polearms*, do you really think an axe will be effective

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#monsterdon No axe?

Boo!

It's really, really hard to look like you're using a fire extinguisher in a manly way. I'm sorry.

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So Ladybug Girl and her mom are barricaded in a closet, and the monster is trying to break in to attack them.

But... like... *why* is it trying to break in and attack them? Why not just go outside and look for food somewhere else instead of wasting its time chewing a door?

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Big monster, axe on the wall, but he goes for the fire extinguisher.

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Twillinger pulling a face that men rarely do with their clothes on...

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THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER? REALLY?

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STAB IT IN THE EYE WITH THE MOP

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no you fool poke it poke it slightly!!!! #monsterdon

ahhhh a relaxing fire escape shower

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dude. the axe, dude. the AXE.

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You're weak and an embarrassment to your dead father Sandy

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Wait, when did I get a diagonal bingo? #Monsterdon

the monster is barely challenging this broom closet door let alone the world #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🏜️☀️🌵🫨🦪🐚🐌🦐😱

NNNNNOOOOOOOooooooooooo my bunnnnniesssss

I appreciate the sediment

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Having located a bunch of snail monsters having a nap the humans are now attaching explosives to them, which is widely considered a 'dick move'

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I've seen plenty of movies with the heroes outrunning an explosion but outSWIMMING one?

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"The pin on my last charge is stuck."

So just drop it? If those are blocks of C4 then you've already set more than enough charges to kill everything there. Hydrostatic shock is horrifically effective.

If you're pin's stuck / Hit da bricks! Just swim out!

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jesus that's a lot of plastique

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@ProcessParsnip he's the monster, trying to disguise as a human

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The skeptical face the blonde woman made about Mr Dobbs was A+

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"I read 18 foreign languages"

[X] Doubt

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"And then she passed on. As I strangled her."

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A cryptid in a canal... the Lock Ness Monster?

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hell yeah map nerd is back

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I do wish we had more of the monster, but I admire the mileage they are getting out of their monster

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oh he got GOT, nice

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this is less like "the monster that challenged the world" and more like... "the monster that moderately inconvenienced part of california"

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We all just want the board to be obscured enough to say ANAL LOCKS, right

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@bunnyhero Chekhov's Knob lol

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Boiled caterpillar with a side of rabbit

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“No, I haven’t seen any creature” Dude! You are marked. #Monsterdon

No, Sandy, GO IN THERE, be a woman of science, you can do it

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I'm starting to think Mr. Dobbs IS the monster.

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Dam that's a view!

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"Secretions" is just not a good word

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Why do we even HAVE CANALS? Crikey people they're nothing but trouble, if Monsterdon has taught us nothing else....

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@bryanhowell they hadn't invented the moon yet. they just had a slightly smaller sun

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"First a fireman. Then a forest ranger. Then a cop."

"So, nothing interesting then?"

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what is this ballpoint pen seller

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Are you supposed to wear your dress uniform for a date?

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jesus, the peso is strong

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Gail really has Resting Concerned Face

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UGH settling in for an entire restaurant scene means there are probably like 10 whole minutes until we get to come face to face with bug, our beloved #monsterdon

I'm calling shenanigans on that "moonlight" #monsterdon

A woman eating?! scandal

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"Gail, how's Connie?"

"Not bad. A little tentative. Kinda vanilla, but she has good endurance."

"What now?"

"What now?"

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Back in the science beer keg, we inspect the baby monster in the egg. It can't hatch because we are protecting it with a Notable Knob, which I will call Chekhov's Knob.

The scientists learn that this monster is a giant snail, despite not looking anything like a giant snail. We watch a scary movie about how snails are Scary and Also Predators.

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this seems like really good stock footage for 1957

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snail sex :blobfoxblushmore:

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Damnit, the creature took Jodie out of the movie!

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#monsterdon "As long as this one knob is set to this exact value, there's no danger of a rampaging monster."

I have a prediction for what's going to happen later.

"Take care of Connie, please? It would be best to kill her quickly. There's nothing left for her."

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What could possibly go wrong?

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"When Tom was killed…"
"Tom?"
"My husband."
"So what you're saying is you're available?

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"Would you like a cigarette?"

"No thanks."

"Heroin?"

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He went to Radio Shack?

Nerd...

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Get the underwater explosives! Blow up everything.

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MY GOD, it's that larva thing from alien

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Best characters in this #monsterdon so far...

ladybug girl
sad beach mom
tiny boat

"Ow ow! Saltwater in my eye! Ouchie ouch!"

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Oh shit not a CREATURE!

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...how are these SCUBA divers using underwater radio transmitters when they have compressed gas mouthpieces in place? It's possible to clear water and remove and reinsert them, true, but not at conversational speed, nor even close to it.

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"They're probably off on their honeymoon."
"And they just wrapped their clothes in seaweed and left them on the beach?"
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"Do you mind if we take a look around. So we can't hear you yapping?"

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So you see kids... if the beach is closed and you go swimming, you'll fuckin' die. Anyway, happy easter!

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Oh these two are about to die.

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Also sort of annoyed how all of these movies seem to thing a separatory funnel is for drip adding something. What they need is a dropping addition funnel, but those aren't a cool shape because they are actually meant to be easy to judge volume in and I guess separatory funnels are cooler?

#Monsterdon #Chemistry #ChemiVerse

ah yes, a check test, the gold standard of tests #monsterdon

“In my serious, medical opinion, this man died from scare. […] Would you like a sandwich from my mortuary cubby?”

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them not being able to play the mortician pulling a sandwich out of the body hole as a joke is actually foreshadowing, and all the men are showing the early signs of "skin not moist enough" disease and can't emote with their catchers mitt faces #monsterdon

Simple marine secretion was my nickname in college.

Don't ask.

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Yes, better take a sample of the mysterious goo you just plunged your hand in. #Monsterdon

Making personal calls on the office phone? What is she, my last Least Favorite Coworker?

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"lol, the ladies with the personal calls, amirite gents?"

*Lesbian bar falls quiet

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She codenamed herself “iron heart” (I think). I love it!

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Maybe he just doesn't want to respond to "flutterboy" any more

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Okay who accidentally put this documentary on parachute development into the queue?

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Nature didn't place that water there, irrigation overfill did

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Uh-oh. Underwater sequences before they figured out how to make those not soporific

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Good of them to release those artists

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I liked how no one was stupid for plot reasons. #monsterdon

And a thank you to the unwavering @Taweret !

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