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[[File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|thumb||[[Tar-Baby 9000]] is the best known and most computationally demonic Tar Baby of modern time. In this 1895 photograph, [[Tar-Baby 9000]] gathers data from Brer Rabbit. ]]A '''Tar-Baby''' is a [[demon (nonfiction)|demon]] which has possessed a [[Tar-Baby (nonfiction)]].
[[File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|thumb||[[Tar-Baby 9000]] is the best known and most computationally demonic Tar Baby of modern time. In this 1895 photograph, [[Tar-Baby 9000]] gathers data from Brer Rabbit. ]]A '''Tar-Baby''' is a [[demon (nonfiction)|demon]] which has possessed a [[Tar-Baby (nonfiction)]].
== Tar-Baby 9000 ==


[[Tar-Baby 9000]] is the best-known and most computationally demonic Tar-Baby of modern time.
[[Tar-Baby 9000]] is the best-known and most computationally demonic Tar-Baby of modern time.


== Turpentine delight ==
[[File:Turpentine-still-making-tar-and-turpentine-1891.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Turpentine]] still, used to make both [[turpentine delight]] and tar. Tar from the still shown here has produced a notoriously sticky breed of tar-babies.]]
Tar-Babies enjoying feeding on [[Turpentine delight]].
Tar-Babies enjoying feeding on [[Turpentine delight]].


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Invariably, having fed [[Turpentine delight]] to others, a Tar-Baby will then feed on said others, chasing down this morsel with a generous shot of [[Extract of Radium]].  [[Hirality ensues! (Not!)]].
Invariably, having fed [[Turpentine delight]] to others, a Tar-Baby will then feed on said others, chasing down this morsel with a generous shot of [[Extract of Radium]].  [[Hirality ensues! (Not!)]].
== In the News ==
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File:Turpentine-still-making-tar-and-turpentine-1891.jpg|[[Turpentine]] still, used to make both [[turpentine delight]] and tar. This still produces a notoriously sticky breed of [[Demon (nonfiction)|demon]].
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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==

Latest revision as of 15:12, 22 June 2016

Tar-Baby 9000 is the best known and most computationally demonic Tar Baby of modern time. In this 1895 photograph, Tar-Baby 9000 gathers data from Brer Rabbit.

A Tar-Baby is a demon which has possessed a Tar-Baby (nonfiction).

Tar-Baby 9000 is the best-known and most computationally demonic Tar-Baby of modern time.

Tar-Babies enjoying feeding on Turpentine delight.

They also enjoy feeding Turpentine delight to others. Tar-Baby 9000 is notorious for this.

Invariably, having fed Turpentine delight to others, a Tar-Baby will then feed on said others, chasing down this morsel with a generous shot of Extract of Radium. Hirality ensues! (Not!).

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference