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Hey guys, I was traveling back from a business trip, and I passed a sign for Lake Huron-so of course, all I could think of was "Huron Blackheart has his own lake?" Anyway, post things that you see in real life that make you think of something Warhammer related. Fantasy or 40k, which is why I put it in general discussion, not 40K discussion. I wanna hear the cool things that people have seen that relate/make them think of Warhammer. Names of places that coincide are a great place to begin. Thanks for feeding my curiosity.
-TTW

Well every once in a while, I see some really ugly monster walking down the street, and I think "OH MY GOD IT'S AN ORK!" But then I realise it's just some teenager who needs to shower........

Actually there are many things that make me think of 40K, but nothing in specific. I see things, think about it, then forget. and try to remember later.

Not really warhammer, but yesterday we we're discussing the cortex with biology, made me think of warmachine.

Wow, you guys are nerds.

As a genetic nerd I do have fantasy ambitions to engineer a space marine...

As an engineering nerd I have semi-serious ambitions to fabricate power armor...

the inability of congress and the WH. Just wants me to set a commisar loose in there

There is a local event here near a natural landmark called Horus-tooth.

Darkness wrote:There is a local event here near a natural landmark called Horus-tooth.

This is the kinda thing I'd like to see. Props to the bio cortex one for warmachine, I just didn't include it because I know nothing of the WM world. Keep adding guys, this is for learning purposes.

If Warhammer is part of the real world, I'm going to start worshipping Slannesh now.

Theblitzkrieg wrote:If Warhammer is part of the real world, I'm going to start worshipping Slannesh now.

Have a lot of sex with hermaphrodites, listen to death metal and do a lot of cocaine, you should be set. But the point of the thread was to post things you see that share names with things in WH. Like the Horus and Huron things earlier. Also, add Horus from the Egyptian gods to the list.

There's a place near my house called Biel-Benken. Made me think Biel-Tan had a cousin craftworld the first time I saw that.

I knew what the imperium of man was before i knew what the word imperial meant.

When I did History in school there was an Italian leader called Hiero all I could think of was a giant bug that killed everything Oh the days

I remember going through Vienna and seeing a place called "The Emperor's Tomb". First thought that came to me was that the Golden Throne wouldn't fit in such a small building...

I simply cannot help it, but every time I see a person with a baby carrier (you know where I'm going with this) I tend to utter "Dreadknight!"

Grimtuff wrote:I simply cannot help it, but every time I see a person with a baby carrier (you know where I'm going with this) I tend to utter "Dreadknight!"

This.

I also realized a fellow student was cheating on an essay (It was writing your own creation story) because they copypasta'd the Eldar Birth and fall from Lexicanum, word for word.

Did you report him?

I would have - but I'm that kind of guy.

Chowderhead wrote:

Grimtuff wrote:I simply cannot help it, but every time I see a person with a baby carrier (you know where I'm going with this) I tend to utter "Dreadknight!"

This.

I also realized a fellow student was cheating on an essay (It was writing your own creation story) because they copypasta'd the Eldar Birth and fall from Lexicanum, word for word.

that ain't cool.

Set that guy on fire.

Well, yeah, I reported him.

timetowaste85 wrote: I wanna hear the cool things that people have seen that relate/make them think of Warhammer.

All the trolls allowed to haunt this forum remind me of The Old World...

Weirdly there are some cosmetics that are labelled Apothecary. Also... Tau comes up in logic now and then. Something that is absolutly correct can be labelled tautological (sp?). As a chef i sometimes think with some amusement about berserk Corn. etc.

Everytime I drive past a prison, or hear about over crowding and all that jazz, I just think 4 words. "Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers".

Seriously, why not?!

Holy crap, just reading about neutron particles, aka ghost particles. Loved what I read, here's a link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10364160

The key points were

1) "Neutrinos are sometimes known as "ghost particles" because they interact so weakly with other forms of matter."
2) The neutrino particle comes in three "flavours": muon, tau and electron.

There's actually a chain of thrift-stores in the Netherlands called 'Xenos'.
So when a few weeks ago I saw a facebook post saying something along the lines of:
"I got this cute this-and-that from xenos yesterday"
my literal first thought was: "you can't barter with xenos, heretic!".

And then it dawned on me...

kitch102 wrote:Holy crap, just reading about neutron particles, aka ghost particles. Loved what I read, here's a link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10364160

The key points were

1) "Neutrinos are sometimes known as "ghost particles" because they interact so weakly with other forms of matter."
2) The neutrino particle comes in three "flavours": muon, tau and electron.

If you didn't know, Tau is a letter in the Greek alphabet.

TiB wrote:There's actually a chain of thrift-stores in the Netherlands called 'Xenos'.
So when a few weeks ago I saw a facebook post saying something along the lines of:
"I got this cute this-and-that from xenos yesterday"
my literal first thought was: "you can't barter with xenos, heretic!".

And then it dawned on me...

About 20 years ago, the main gaming stores in my area were Xenos Comics...

Coolyo294 wrote:

kitch102 wrote:Holy crap, just reading about neutron particles, aka ghost particles. Loved what I read, here's a link; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10364160

The key points were

1) "Neutrinos are sometimes known as "ghost particles" because they interact so weakly with other forms of matter."
2) The neutrino particle comes in three "flavours": muon, tau and electron.

If you didn't know, Tau is a letter in the Greek alphabet.

I had no idea, won't stop me finding it humorous though lol

Any time I see girls wearing a "Chorus" sweater I omit the C and mumble under my breath "Heretics"

Zalmout wrote:Any time I see girls wearing a "Chorus" sweater I omit the C and mumble under my breath "Heretics"

Hell of a pick up line you got there