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Monday, January 30, 2012

You And Whose Army?


1. Private Parking
2. Bombardier Bitter
3. Corporal Punishment
4. Sgt Pepper
5= Captain Sensible
5= Captain Beaky
7. Major Tom
8. Colonel Mustard
9. The Brigadier
10. General Waste

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Ten Acts of Random Kindness


1. Give you seat up to someone no more deserving than you on public transport
2. Pay for the person next to you in the coffee shop
3. Leave finished books behind for others to read,  like you leave newspapers
4. Tip staff in fast food outlets
5. Buy David Bowie albums for anyone you like
6. Give your unexpired parking tickets to people who are just arriving
7. Always stop to pet cats
8. Offer to take photos of couples for them
9. Say thank you to people doing thankless jobs
10. Write emails of praise to companies when they make things work as they should do

Friday, November 25, 2011

Ten Folders On Adrian Veidt's Desktop in The Watchmen


1. Veidt electric
2. Veidt properties
3. Veidt development
4. Veidt sport 
5. Nostalgia
6. Veidt science
7. Manhattan
8. Alexander
9. Pyramid transnational
10. Boys

Friday, October 28, 2011

The Ten Worst Band Names in the History of The X Factor


1. The Stereo Hoggz
2. InTENsity
3. Same Difference
4. 2 Shoes
5. The Mend
6. Illusion Confusion
7. Bad Lashes
8. De-Tour
9. Ghostt
10. The Anser

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Ten Best* Come-on Lines In Pop**


1. "I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin" - Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well
2. "What's your name? Who's your Daddy? Is he rich like me?" - The Zombies, Time of the Season
3. "Pour some sugar on me" - Def Lepard, Pour Some Sugar On Me
4. "I ain't ever seen a country boy with tires on his truck this high" - Jake Owen, Eight Second Ride
5. "Cool, but I'm leaving my pants on, because I'm kind of going with someone" - Prince, Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
6. "The more you ignore me, the closer I get, you're wasting your time" - Morrissey, The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
7. "I'll be around today, to be available for you to see" - Sly Stone, If You Want Me To Stay
8. "Your soft silky hand all smooth and thin, it makes me want to hold it again and again" - Milli Vanilli, Girl You Know It's True
9. "I would lock you up but I could not bear to hear you screaming to be let go" - Wham!, The Edge Of Heaven
10. "You probably want hard boiled eggs" - Bob Dylan, Highlands

*Not literally best (ie sometimes worst)
**The Lister cannot guarantee that traces of country music, rock and hip hop are not included

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Ten of the 37,000 Entries That Appeared in the First Edition of Noah Webster’s A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806


1. deliquesce verb: to dissolve or soften in air
2. electrician noun: one versed in electricity
3. flytrap noun: a trap to catch flies
4. hommony noun: food made of maiz broken but coarse and boiled
5. selectman noun: a town official in New England
6. skunk noun: a quadruped remarkable for its smell
7. slatternly adjective: negligent in dress, sluttish
8. unmalleable adjective: not capable of being hammered into a plate
9. vaccine noun: the cow pox, kine-pox
10. winterkill verb: to kill by means of winter, as grain

* With thanks/apologies to Merriam-Webster