Though not as well-known as other Leagues composed of remarkable individuals, the League of Peculiar Gentlemen (LOPG) is none-the-less, an astonishing story of sacrifice, heroism, and strapping things over your…
You do not talk about baboon-washing club. You do not talk about baboon-washing club. If someone says “stop,” goes limp, or gets infected by a new virulent strain of baboon-born…
This explains a great deal. Alltop is fond of burning things too.
This is a fun and page-turning read about eugenics, institutionalized child abuse, and interstellar genocide. Humanity is at war with a distance race of aliens (called “Buggers”) and for some…
I read this originally in French class, sometime during my high school career. (Where I was a music nerd, and a hard-core nerd, long before that was remotely cool.) Most…
In 1950, J.D. Salinger was hired by the New York City Tourist Bureau to write a jazzy and young novel about the city that never sleeps, in hopes of increasing…
Lord of the Flies follows a group of boys as they go to the worst summer camp ever. There are no tents or cabins for them to sleep in, the…
Dune is an epic science fiction tale about religion, inter-stellar politics, and the awesomeness of riding around on giant worms that crap out the greatest drug ever.* The drug in…
The Odyssey The Odyssey is a story about a homicidal maniac (Odysseus) who refuses to ask for directions. This tragic flaw, shared by many men, leads his crew to disaster.…
Not to be confused with the movie, the book version of The Fellowship of the Ring includes several scenes with the mysterious, and quite possibly brain damaged, Tom Bombadil. On…
“I was at school with his brother Bufty. Tremendous bloke. He was head of my house. Buggered me senseless. Still, it taught me about life.” Spot that quote! Alltop is…
Howard Beale: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The…
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…
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…
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…
Wow. 100,000 years of wow. Alltop is a standard deviant from the mean.
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…
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!
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…
Alltop is the lost boy of humor.
