Ancient Irish Tumblr Facts
I think any of these work better with the ancient Irish suffix, osphere: Tumblr-osphere Blog-osphere Facebook-osphere BTW, you can find my two Tumblogs here: Monkey Joys and Sad Spaceman. Alltop…
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Rocket wearing a fez
You see, Marc Johns just GETS it. Alltop has a tiny fez fetish.
When your imaginary friend is a jerk
Why do our brains do this? Or is it just me and The Oatmeal? Alltop has tons of imaginary friends,and they’re all super!
Remembrances of Rabbits Past
Watership Down: A Reviewmory This was one of my childhood faves, and all of my friends had read it as well. So, you’d think a bunch of 12-year-old boys would…
Beekeeping
Another clip, this featuring John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson: Is it me, or do a inordinate number of John Cleese sketches end with him killing everyone? Alltop would like to…
Economics 101
My economics professor told the following joke in class, so you know some of them have a sense of humor and understand theirs is a dismal science: A physicist, a…
Hitler Sings! And the First Irish Moon-shot
More from Spike Milligan. And if that wasn’t enough, Spike can make fun of his homeland too. (Though I think he’s actually making fun of the stereotypes.) Alltop doesn’t like…
Ampersand wearing a fez
I think Marc Johns has nailed it. This is exactly the kind of whimsical hat an ampersand would wear. Here are some other suggestions punctuation/headgear combos: colon wearing a bowler…
The Goon Show: Tales of Men’s Shirts
Before Monty Python, there was The Goon Show. I love the way that when Spike Milligan does anything, he breaks the rest of the Goons up. This is their penultimate…
Out-of-context quotes from my work in progress
I’m well stuck into what I hope is my last draft of my next novel, and I thought I’d share the occasional quotation from the book: The sirens were an…
Yet another NEW piece by Mozart discovered
As you may know, I’ve written a novel in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is alive and well, and supporting himself by writing “lost” Mozart pieces. Another one was discovered earlier…
God is not a statistician
Wow. 100,000 years of wow. Alltop is a standard deviant from the mean.
Colonel Sanders Crosses the Delaware
Little-known to most historians, “Colonel” Harland Sanders crossed the Delaware on December 25, 1776, just after George Washington’s boat. For his help in feeding the troops and giving free soda…
The history of English in 10 minutes
This is really quite impressive, and even funny in many places: -via Jim Anderson, who’s book, DEADLINE, you should check out if you like mysteries. Alltop speaks funglish!
Why Everyone Should Read Cat’s Cradle
“Now I will destroy the whole world.” – What Bokonists say when they commit suicide, Cat’s Cradle, Chapter 106 You’d think a story about the end of the world –…
Butterscotch Pie
Cecil and Barton were locked in a gentlemen’s psycho-drama that ammunition could not solve. How it had begun, neither could say. Perhaps it had to do with one of them…
For my art nerd, nerd-nerd friends
You know who you are! Alltop is a comedy nerd.
Local man wins big after rolling up rim
LONDON, Ontario (The Skwib) — It started like any normal day, but after winning in Tim Horton’s “roll up the rim” contest, Neddie Bubbin’s life will never be the same.…
The collapse of the Easter Island civilization, finally explained
I knew there had to be a logical explanation, other than the depressing one provided by Jared Diamond in his book, Collapse. It was a societal Pez addiction. Alltop likes…
How green are Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions?
I’m always amazed when I see clips of Clarke predicting how technology will change our lives. The clip above is from 1973. In retrospect, he gets so much right, yet…