Bit of a thread bump (because the rest of it is too damn depressing)

Any recs on something that is just damned funny? Need a pick me up. (see above.)

Used to read PJ O'rourke before he became married, sober, and dull. Hunter Thompson before the same (and a suicide, erk..NOT FUNNY :<( ). Is Dave Barry still alive?

All the non-stop screaming about how this time, THIS TIME, we're going to change the world is tiresome. Hit me with some damned funny literature. Could care less if it's PC. Excuse me, "woke"...wait ..."Woke (!!!)" for the pre-40 crowd. WOKE, DAMN IT!!!! for the under 30 crowd.

I'd personally recommend anything from the "Flashman"* series by George MacDonald Fraiser, but it's REALLY not woke. Best in audiobook because of the British/Welsh/Cockney/Scottish/Irish/Hindu/Pashtun/Chinese accents.

OMG. Did I say "recommend"? I meant start a woke campaign and end this stuff that is so non-woke I can't believe it's still available. Funny, and when you get into it, probably the most ironically anti-Imperialism series of books ever written.


(you won't see the Flashman books in print for cheap anymore, although the kindle versions are available. For now. Better if you have a basic grasp of the past 200 years of Western Civ history..the official version and the less kind "woke" version. The audio books...my god. )


*In the mold of P.G. Wodehouse, only from a fictitious British officer point of view.