Rob Lamb
speaker
6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 29 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 29.
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One can imagine there could be a survival advantage in simply being able to graft on the limbs, tissues, and organs of other members of your group, perhaps even in a role-based way, sharing particularly healthy or strong body parts for particular tasks.
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One can also see where this could easily get out of hand, but then again, perhaps it also benefits the fieries as far as group cohesion goes.
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Not only can they share information.
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And resources, they can share body parts and adapt their forms to different tasks.
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Hey, after all, there's no reason to domesticate a horse when you can just make a horse-like body out of your own assembled limbs.
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If this is all the case, however, clearly they overcame their natural obstacles long ago and now devote their natural talents exclusively to self-enjoyment and celebration.
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Oh, let's do one more labyrinth entry.
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Why not?
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This is a deeper cut, but one of my favorite things in the whole movie.
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These are the nipper sticks of labyrinth.
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I'd like to turn our attention once more to the world of Jim Henson's nineteen eighty-six fantasy film Labyrinth.
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Where a vast shifting maze surrounds the Goblin King's castle, full of various hazards, traps, and riddles.
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It is not uncommon to encounter the goblin army in these parts, as they tend to such important work as tormenting good natured beasts like Ludo.
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In the film, Sarah encounters several heavily armored goblins engaging in just such work with nipper sticks.
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These are long sticks or cudgels with a strange, bitey creature perched toward the end of the stick.
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These creatures are hairless and pink, their eyes remain closed, and they seem unwilling or incapable of leaving the end of the stick that they cling to with clawed hands and feet.
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While the goblins don't bother to explain the origin of the Nipper Sticks, and the bestiaries and novelizations I turned to were equally silent on the matter, one is struck by a sense of newborn or larval morphology in The Nipper Beast.
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It has not yet opened its eyes, it does not move on its own, it has not grown hair, its only defining behavior is to bite at any and everything it can with its pronounced sharp teeth.
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Larval aggression is very much a reality in the animal world.
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It is common among nursery mates, generally due to resource limitations.
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