At their annual meeting, the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things the president proudly announced the year’s accomplishments, celebrating how members have successfully put more things on top of other things than ever before. Delegates enthusiastically applauded reports from various regions, except for the Staffordshire branch, which admitted it hadn’t put a single thing on top of another because its members concluded that “the whole thing is a bit silly.”
After the initial outrage, the president paused, realizing they’re absolutely right, agreed that the entire enterprise is absurd, and immediately dissolved the Society. But instead of ending there, the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things crossed the Atlantic where Americans embraced it and discovered they’d actually been putting things on top of other things for years. Sometimes for hefty sums of money.
Here are just a few of the bizarre sequences that abandons logic entirely, and spearheads the new industry.
