Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum | The Onion

"Last month, he wanted us to change the high school's motto from 'Many Kinds of Excellence' to 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,'" PTA member Cathy Perry said. "I asked if it was Latin, and he said that it was the eldritch tongue of Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. I don't know from eldritch tongues, but I'm not sure that's such a good idea."

I particularly enjoy the fact that this Onion article makes appropriate use of Howard Phillips's own favorite literary technique of italicizing the last part of the last sentence in a paragraph for emphasis.

It's the written equivalent of that unfunny uncle at your family gatherings who insists on verifying that you fully comprehend the significance of the punchline to the dirty joke he just told you about the women who could put comically large things in her vagina.

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum | The Onion