First off, I enjoy lists. On the internet, I stumble upon quite a few of them. Did you ever notice that there a lot of lists out there? Well you and I would not be the first ones to notice. Lots of people have, and some of them have taken it a step farther to make lists of these lists. This makes the reading of these lists a lot easier for us. However, it's getting to the point where there are a lot of these as well. Enough to, let's say, be put into a list. That's right; this article is a list of lists of lists. Let's get right into it then.
5.
Fimoculous
First off, that's a strange word, no? Well here's what the site has to say:
"What is this? A fimoculous is a micro-organism that consumes its own waste for sustenance. Fimoculli are therefore a self-perpetuating ecology. A mono-parasite, a homo-symbiosis, Fimoculous.com devours the filth expunged on the mediascape. (Oh, and it aggregates my life.)"
Strange, but anyway, this is a list of all of the lists they have from 2007. They have links to other sites, which have interesting lists like "Top 20 Movie Nude Scenes" and "Top 25 Censored News Stories". They also have normal lists like "Top 100 Albums" and "America's Top Colleges". To see their list of lists from other year you can just change the '2007' in the URL to 2006, etc.
4.
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists
I was scrolling through the page, waiting for something to really catch my eye, and then I saw it. "
Phrases Commonly Used by 1950s Housewives That Were Often Misinterpreted by the Housewives' Husbands as Blatant Requests for Sex". Looking through this article, you may notice a trend that a lot of the lists I've selected as examples have to do with sex and nudity. Well, they're funny. I'll choose another one from here to show that other things are funny too; "
Grimm Fairy Tales Made Decidedly More Grim". Sites that actually host their own lists rather than just having a bunch of links to outside sites.
3.
AListofLists.com
A site with this sort of title was destined to be in this article. It seems to be an up and coming site, which started in October of this year. At the time of me writing this article, the top of their main page is "
32 Places with Funny Names." I'm sold. This would be higher on the list if it was a bit more established with a bigger archive (the archive button is actually broken...).
2.
David Letterman
Anyone who's ever watched an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman knows that he gives a humorous top ten list during every show. He's been doing this since September 1985, probably in anticipation of my birth. This was probably one of my first experiences with lists. Books full of his lists have been published, and you can also go on the Late Show website and see archives of them.
1.
The Book of Lists
This was my first experience with a list of lists. My friend Alex's family has a cabin up on Mount Hood, and in that cabin is a copy of this book. Late nights we would gather around and take turns passing the book around and reading entertaining lists out loud. When you're a fourteen-year-old guy, reading a list about "Famous people who died during sex" is fantastic. Hell, even today reading that kind of list is great. This book was full of little treasures like that, and although it had some boring stuff, the fun list more than made up for the boring ones.
Honorable Mention:
Cracked.com
There are some really great ones here. Unfortunately the site is not 100% lists, nor do they have a section devoted to their lists. I wish I could add it to the main list since so many of their articles are lists, but they'll have to settle for honorable mention. Lists such as "
9 Most Badass Bible Verses" and "
7 Movies Deaths That Would Be Awesome to Have on Your Tombstone" will have you laughing uncontrollably.
Disappointment #2.
Lists.com
This URL has so much potential! But instead it goes to waste, displaying ads for mailing lists. I suppose this technically is a list of lists, but c'mon.
Disappointment #1.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia, I'm disappointed in you. 41? With all of the bored people in the English-speaking world, 41 was the best we came up with?
I look forward to the day that lists such as mine become common place, and maybe I will be put in a list of lists of list of lists. Wonder how many times I said the word list in this article? 50.
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