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Star Trek: How it should have ended

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Also at YouTube if the embeddy thing red-shirts on you.

This would have been so much better if it was the George Takei playing Sulu.

Alltop also likes going where no-one has gone before.

Reassuring Fictions

In times like these, you may believe that all is well. You may enjoy watching the Olympics, eating spam, or perhaps you have many Norwegian friends.

You may have the feeling that we live in the best of possible worlds. Given the possibilities, the vagaries of quantum mechanics, perhaps, you think to yourself, everything is right in the world.

These are reassuring fictions.

These fictions are propagated by a large number of clandestine groups, which run the affairs of the world from...

Restraint

You are walking down the street, minding your own business when a strange vehicle, driven by some kind of diminutive fish pulls up next to you. The vehicle is roughly half your size. You feel a pinprick of pain in your neck, and then, you black out.

You come to, briefly, to discover that you are immobilized, held in a net, and somehow, thousands of feet above your city. It is a disorienting, emotionally distressing moment and you pass out again.

When you awake, you find yourself in a...

Twenty-Eight Tequilas Later

The party got out of hand roughly the same time Professor Lunchbender decided to create the "ultimate" knob robot.

Of course, you had to admire any affaire that required the services of the National Guard, even if they were unsuccessful and preventing an uncomfortably phallic technological singularity.

Bob (pictured in front) had at least died happy man.

Alltop believes teledilldonics is myth.

Thirteen Tequilas Later

The party got out of hand roughly the same time Professor Lunchbender decided to create the "ultimate" knob robot.

Of course, you had to admire any affaire that required the services of the National Guard, even if they were unsuccessful and preventing an uncomfortably phallic technological singularity.

Bob (pictured in front) had at least died happy man.

Alltop believes teledilldonics is myth.

Those Pernicious Business Clichés

Tolbert Whistlebaum had a deep and abiding love for the English language, which is why he took a doctorate at Oxfjord University, concentrating on Naughty Victorian Literature.

His scholarship was insufficient to cover his tuition and his love affair with first edition copies of Richard Burton's translation of the Kama Sutra (eventually they became unreadable), so he took on a copy-editing job with the marketing division of Gargantuan Enterprises. His boss was a lovely and exciting woman...

Mother's Little Helper

What Mom Says Goes!, originally uploaded by captainpandapants.

The day after, chemist Leo Sternbach, decided to give his new "relaxing compound for stressed-out mothers" another go. And within a year, Valium was approved for commercial use.

Of course it would never bring Jillian or Fluffy back.

Alltop loves the fake sitar riff in "Mother's Little Helper." Hilarious refit of the retro scene by captainandpants.

The Slovakian

To those of us covering the games as journalists, he was known simply as The Slovakian, but to the many athletes who depended on his expertise, he was much, much more than a name.

He was a prickly taskmaster. He bristled whenever an athlete did not make the most of his talents. His sense of humor and pride were best described as ticklish.

And for anyone hoping to win gold, his training regimen was indispensable.

He was the greatest whisker coach of the Beard Olympics.

Alltop enjoys a little ...

Honor Societies (by xkcd)

Love this one from xkcd:

Alltop likes free gifts, fast speed and hilarious funny.

Epic Tales of Adventure

This is somewhat of an oldie, in web terms, but I just saw it yesterday, so what the hell:

Confluence, originally uploaded by fixedgear.

Alltop is top hat.