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The Doclopedia #1,443
The Alphabet: G is For…Gone Girls
Formed in 1985 by four middle school best friends, the Gone Girls are the best known of the horror rock groups that started popping up around 1982. Their first album, “Bowl Full Of Eyeballs”, went gold in less than a month and their second album “The Sound Of A Cannibal Picnic”, went gold before it was released.
With Kathy Korpse on lead guitar & vocals, Niki Slasher on bass, Lynne Demonik on rhythm guitar & vocals and Zee Beast on drums, they mixed hard driving rock riffs with vividly horrifying, but often humorous, lyrics.
The group spent most of 5 years on tour, stopping only to record their four albums and to take required educational tests. Their last tour, the “Heading Back To Hell” tour, took place the summer after they all graduated high school and lasted 12 weeks. When it was over, the four young ladies completely left the music business and have resisted all attempts to do even a single reunion concert.
The Doclopedia #1,444
The Alphabet: G is For…Great Almurin
“Attend to me, you sinners, as I tell you the tale of Great Almurin! That wondrous city sat in the shadow of Mount Cormat and was the crowning jewel of the Empire of the Moons. One thousand times three hundred people lived there, in great wealth and luxury and sin. Oh yes, their sins were great and many, just as yours are! They too thought themselves just ordinary folk, but they were blind to their sinfulness and doomed!
For three hundred years, that wicked city was the center of the empire. Wealthy and powerful people ruled from their. Great ships filled the harbor, bringing in the goods of a 200 nations. Artists, some of the worst sinners of all, created works that glorified Great Almurin. Wine, a sinful drink that weakens the mind and incites lust, was produced in the many vineyards that surrounded the city. Sin was flourishing everywhere.
Long and long had the citizens of that wicked city thought that Mount Cormat was merely a volcano, and a very inactive one at that. Oh, how their pride in “science” blinded them to the truth as told in ancient legends. And it was that blindness that made the truth all the more terrifying in their last sinful seconds of life!
For Mount Cormat was not just a volcano, sinners, it was, as the ancients told, the sleeping place of the fire demons Utos and Watos. On that glorious day that Great Almurin fell, they climbed out of the mountain and began laying waste to everything the could see. 500 feet tall they stood, and made of living lava!
Oh, then did the vile sinners of the city pray for their lives, but it did them no good. Utos and Watos reduced that sinful place and all in it to a burned out wasteland that even today, a thousand years later, none dare to enter. They returned to the mountain once the cleansing was done, sinners, but they will return again when the time is right.
Repent now, you sinners, or suffer the fate of Great Almurin”
The Doclopedia #1,445
The Alphabet: H is For…Hell Hornets
In 1873, British explorers in the Congo accidentally discovered a plague. They brought this plague back to London in the root ball of a small tree. They had no idea that there was anything in the root ball besides soil and a few small bugs. But when they unwrapped it to plant the tree in a greenhouse, they unleashed the plague that would become known as Hell Hornets.
An estimated 60 of the aggressive stinging insects burst out of the tree roots and stung the three men (1 botany professor and 2 gardeners) about 130 times. The men ran from the greenhouse in agonizing pain, forgetting to shut the door behind them. Every hornet escaped.
Since a third of the hornets were females, they and their 1 to 3 male consorts were soon spread across the countryside and digging nests in the ground. It was a warm spring, summer and fall that year, and by the coming of winter, the Hell Hornet population had probably increased fivefold. By 1880, you could find Hell Hornets across the British Isles and in seven countries in Europe. By 1882, they had made it to Canada, the United States and Australia. By the start of World War I, the only areas you would not find them are deserts, arctic and sub-arctic regions.
Hell Hornets are twice the size of ordinary hornets and far more aggressive. There is also a much greater chance that humans will suffer severe or deadly allergic reactions to their stings. Eradication programs in some areas have kept them away for years, but they always come back. In 1965, the United Nation declared Hell Hornets the most dangerous introduced animal on earth and launched a study to wipe them out. By 2000, they had reduced the world population by more than 60%. With new advances in genetics, it is hoped that Hell Hornets will be wiped out everywhere outside tropical Africa by 2030.
The Doclopedia #1,446
The Alphabet: H is For…Hibbley Mibbley
On Earth 1-J, the “Hibbley Mibbley Show” is hugely popular with children ages 2 to 4. It features the adventures of Hibbley Mibbley, a little creature of an unknown species. He lives in Townly Wownly with his “dog”, “Miffly” and his two best friends Oobley Doobley and Kassley Tassley. Every episode features at least one nonsense song.
The series is in it’s 7th season and the first 6 seasons are out on Blu Ray. There are Hibbley Mibbley live shows that always sell out.
It should be noted that after as few as 3 episodes of this series, most adults are ready for the sweet embrace of death, or at least deafness and blindness.
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