Archive | June, 2010

Parsing the want ads

old photo of men in lab coats cleaning a hippo

Are you ready for an exciting career?

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Are you ready to dive in and clean up? Your training will be provided. Absolutely no experience necessary. If you have integrity, a good work ethic and a strong stomach, the opportunities for advancement are only limited by how long you can work. We’ll provide the tools, the knowhow, and don’t worry about life insurance — we’ll pay for that too.

All you need to bring is your desire to succeed!

Alltop wants to succeed. Photo via Twisted Vintage.

An Unlikely Apocalypse

the womble sisters, post apocalypse

At first, it had seemed possible to continue moving through the desolate landscape on foot, but soon, it was obviously impracticable. Many bad things happened to the people travelling in traditional, bipedal mode: Ether-snakes. Entropic planter fasciitis. Electric sand. (And that was just the ‘e’s.)

Before the catastrophe, everyone thought that Edith and Sally Womble had been insane, going everywhere via giant rubber ball.

But as with all visionaries, they were ostracized, and continued to be, even when it was manifestly apparent that theirs was the only viable mode of locomotion in the aftermath.

Mostly it was because they were just so smug, but Edith’s halitosis didn’t help much either.

Alltop used to date Sally. Twins Sisters have a run on balloons
Brilliant artwork by yves.lecoq


More disturbing Olympic Mascots

The London Olympic Committee continues the fine tradition of creating Olympic Mascots that kind of freak me out.

Obviously, nothing is going to ever be as on the nose as the Beijing Olympic Mascots, but these do stand out for their freakishness.

Actually, isn’t there something vaguely Simpsonian about these? Are they perhaps just redrawings of Kang and Kodos? I’ll post a pic of them below and let you decide.

Certainly, Lunchbreath has nailed it:

spoof of the new London Olympic Mascots

kang and kodos

Am I right?

Alltop loves spork. mascots, originally uploaded by lunchbreath.