When I first discover Alltop.com I was really excited.
At last, I thought, a network for and about people like myself.
People with a deep and abiding interest in the joyous and rather dizzying field of gyroscopy.
Finally, I had found a forum in which to celebrate gravity, centrifugal force, coriolis effect and the many other stipulations of physics that keep my mind whiling like a dervish.
Without the slightest hesitation I besieged Guy Kawasaki, himself a nexus of conflicting forces, begging admission into this exclusive gathering.
I could tell he was reluctant to let me in on the action by the way he kept sprinkling the phrase “not if you were the last blogger in Laos,” throughout his emailed replies, but still I persevered.
Three weeks and five pajama-grams later he relented and I was finally set to spin.
Imagine my surprise when after a short while I started receiving targeted blog traffic looking for original humor.
At first I was stumped. Where was I going to find this humor everyone was demanding? Life for me seemed to spiral out of control.
But once I stumbled across the burgeoning humor outsourcing market of Bolivia, things took a positive twist.
Alltop.com because one good turn deserves more than a bad pun.
But probably won’t get it.
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And from your photo you look so normal.
Thanks again for that great post. I will get back to Humor Blogging in the future, but it’s sort of on hold for the time being, what with being an election year and all.
Chris non-C, she must mean it that way.
I didn’t realize that gyroscopes were Laotian in origin.
Is he the guy who invented the Kawaski motorcycle by chance???
I think you are now approaching the end of the world wide web. Stop now before you roll over the edge and drop into infinity. (I’m sorry that there is no safety rail. You will have to ask Al Gore why he didn’t install one)
John O. (always lurking)
After like ten emails sent I finally got added to Alltop last week. But I’m not seeing any traffic from it. Weird.
I might comment more if I weren’t….so…..mesmerized by the gyro.
Now I’m hungry for a Greek sandwich.
Braggers!
AllTop wouldn’t let me on. Guy said I was, eh, too good, and he woulda hadda make an AllTippieTop.
Yeah.
In response, I’m starting my own elite cadre of sites. I’m cillin it “Bottom Feeders”. (Clever, ‘eh? How I worked that RSS thing in the name?)
“Bottmom Feeders” will be way cooler.
We will have free booze.
It’s good to see that you are finally heading in a more educational direction here. Tom foolery has it place but is shortlived in the REAL world…”This is your father speaking!” :) :)
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I too am fascinated by shiny things that spin.
LOL!!!
A blog to celebrate gravity? I guess that is true. I am very happy for the natural forces as well.
Lately I’ve been getting the impression that a humor blog must be humorous to be funny.
Only complete hacks are listed on there.
(let me see if my blog is on there… yup)
I stand by the complete hacks statement but at least we are all in good company. Except for Dane Cook.
By “normal”, do you mean your average Jim Carey impersonator?
Oh, I am normal. Very normal.
At least 30% more normal than regular normal people.
He was busy doing his hair.
But if I know Al, and I don’t, I’m sure he’s working a safety net of some sort.
Good to hear from you John.
It is because you are not a Jim Carey impersonator.
Really Chris? I must get 20 percent of my traffic from Alltop. The other five people just seem to end up there by misspelling humorium.
I am getting a trickle but I suspect the problem is that I just don’t feature enough Things White People Like.
Not that I’m bitter about the book deal.
Even though it beat out my own volume, Stuff Favored by Causations.
Alright already. I am not a Jim Carey impersonator.
Watch the videos people, I’m way too dry for that. Most people who work with me compare me with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs.
Hopefully that has more to do with my subtlety than my propensity for screwing things up and leaving it for someone else to fix.
I think you have Jim Carey envy.
Be careful Creech, they spin that lamb meat on a spit. Vertigo is always a risk.
LOBO I had you figured for an AllTeepeeTop guy.
I envisioned you at the apex of your own buckskin tent with the smoke from Lady Terri’s cookfire gathring around your ankles.
Then I got a headache for some reason.
Anyway count me in for Bottom Feeders.
Don’t forget the couple that show up looking for free coffee and a twelve-step meeting.
I know that’s how I found you.
I keep trying to tell everyone how educational this site is and still there’s always the big shock and surprise everytime I
inventintroduce people to new information.La la la la – I can’t hear you. La la la la la.
I completely understand. It’s Jello-phobia season over here.
:)
I’m more normal than your 30% more normal than regular normal. I’m about 31% more normal than your 30% more normal than regular normal. I might even be 31.0123% more normal than your 30% more normal that regular normal.
See how normal I am?
Did you mean Caucasians?
I hear that they really like Jim Carey.
I think that Jim Carey should have Brent-envy.
Yes, that is what I meant.
Clearly, I need a more loyal spell-checker. One that will not let me be seen in public in such a miss-spelled state.
Like Mississippi.
I am nothing if not educational.
Yup, nothing it is.
Alarmingly normal, I’d say.
And just what are you implying my dear?
Humor Inadequacy Syndrome is a serious matter, not to be mocked.
Unless it’s a really funny joke.
Yeah, I heard inertia got its own parade.
Here’s to hackery.