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Saki's avatar

Is it too late to say, that I love absolutely everything about this post!? What a delightful irritation response!!! I'm embarrassed to say, we have quite a few of these self-important "heroic" types in my field, archaeology, as well. Characters who go on about their hardships for science (= excavating old sherds in politically highly dangerous regions), while really they are not only endangering themselves, but also the students (!!) they take along as well as the local guards.

So, the priggishness (pig-ishness, ho ho) of Mr. Potash resonated very much!!

Your first image somehow reminded me of Stanislaw Lem's piece "The Seventh Voyage" where a lone space explorer (not arctic, but also cold) gets into some kind of time-warp and encounters differnt versions of himself. So funny!

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Kayla Stark's avatar

I’m sure you’ve seen “The Thing”! Another polar horror!

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