One of my favorite re-purposings of a word

It took me too long to find this today using Agent, so I'm posting it here:

Joseph Michael Bay posted this to rec.arts.sf.written on 28 September 2000:

In one edition of the RPG "Call of Cthulhu" there was a two-page spread of "Lovecraftian adjectives". Probably my favorite was "rectangular", because, as I mentioned to my friend, "It doesn't seem all that creepy or disturbing".

Sure enough in the next game he ran, "You see someone ahead in the alleyway. You can't make out his features, but he's ... rectangular".

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