For a long time, I thought “top” lists sucked. Who can actually come up with a top five or top ten anything that they are solid about? It’s always open to debate, even between me and my other me. Those scenes in High Fidelity are irritating. I want to climb into the screen and start screaming in Jack Black’s face or tell Cusack that he has no taste in music (and the film song picks are way better than in the novel, though I do like the book).
Then I realized such lists aren’t really meant to be definitive. (Sometimes I’m a bit rigid, but I come around. Usually.) They’re conversation starters, like Jack Black’s Top Five Monday Morning Songs. So this post marks the kick-off of a semi-regular posting at PDB of not just the same old lists. (And that means I’ll probably never post another list here again.)
Top Five Top Five Lists I’d like to see:
1. Top Five Top Five Lists I Hate
2. Top Five Top Five Lists
3. Top Five Internet Timewasters
4. Top Five items for your Mars Exploration Kit
5. Top Five Ways to Self-induce Sleep
Bonus list: Top Five Foods to Eat in the Car that you Shouldn’t But Do Anyway
What do you love or hate about lists? Which ones are you favorites? Which ones would you like to see from other people but not have to participate? Which ones do you hope you never see?
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Looket me grabbing the easiest of them all…
Top Five Internet Timewasters
1. Plurk
2. StumbleUpon
3. Twitter
4. Bingo.com
5. YouPorn
Tada!
-Jell-
My five top things to do instead of cleaning the house:
1. Eat something, preferably without any nutritional value whatsoever
2. Feed a baby or two
3. Eat something else.
4. Anything on the internet, mostly Twittering, Plurking, blogging, reading a blog, or deleting email.
5. Eating again.
6. BONUS! Nothing.
7. This isn’t part of this list, but I know you didn’t ask for an “instead of cleaning list” but what can I say, it was timely.
Top 5 Ways That People Refuse to Answer the Fucking Question would be a good list.
Top 5 Seinfeld Riffs Repeated in Curb Your Enthusiasm
Answers to yours:
Food in car one shouldn’t eat:
1. beignets with powdered sugar
2. lasagna
3. grilled loin
4. oysters
5. fried calamari
Very nice, people.
@Jells: I put that one in there for you. But I dispute it, of course. No Facebook? And how about “blogs?” Not so easy now, is it?
@Mavis: I like that first one:
1. By answering something unrelated. (Myg)
2. By not reading the category properly (Mavis - I said, Top Five Foods to Eat in the Car that you Shouldn’t But Do Anyway Are you telling me you eat lasagna and oysters in your ride? And now I’m hungry. Mmm, loin.)
3. ? Anyone?