hemingway_exeunt t1_iubg25f wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:15 AM

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Stephen King once named an invading parasitic alien race "shit weasels," so the bar may be a bit lower than you'd think.

DeadT0m t1_iubothn wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:28 AM

Yes but that was like a colloquial term and only applied to one variant. They also called them 'gray-boys' and other such epithets. Something Kurtz even explicitly cracks down on once the operation goes loud.

hemingway_exeunt t1_iuc79yk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:33 AM

It's worth noting that King's wife Tabitha referred to Dreamcatcher as "the one about the shit weasels." I can't find a direct citation to prove that, but I'm 100% confident of its accuracy.

DeadT0m t1_iucfhrj wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:23 AM

Pretty sure he mentioned that in one of the forewords to a later novel. He and Tabby both don't really consider the book one of his best.

awol5943 t1_iubyvlu wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:01 AM

Ass blasters we're only applied to one variant as well.

DeadT0m t1_iuc002y wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:12 AM

That's true, but with the shit weasels it's still at least implied that even the people using the term know it's not going to fly once actual academics get involved. In Tremors even the paleontologists call them ass blasters.

awol5943 t1_iuc044c wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:13 AM

Fair point.