Oh, one last thing I just got a chuckle out of.

The end of the book I'm reading, The Secret House, is about how to end a dinner party. The author has gone on about the science of day to day stuff in the house for the entire book and has been funny, but more or less normal.

I guess he was just not a big fan of dinner parties or something because the whole segment of ending a dinner party is almost surreal. First he states that one option for getting away from boring guests is to start howling like a madman and then jump out the window. After that, he goes on for about 4-5 pages about the various ways to kill your guests, starting with the most statistically likely (falling in the UK, getting them to clean your loaded gun in the US) and then going further afield for some of the more unlikely methods of death (having them stand outside for a few billion years to wait for a meteorite to hit them).

Still, it was pretty funny.