Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Ten Irish Writers Recommended By Kevin Rowland


1. Oscar Wilde
2. Brendan Behan
3. Sean O'Casey
4. George Bernard Shaw
5. Samuel Beckett
6. Eugene O'Neill
7. Edna O'Brien
8. Lawrence Stern
9. Philip Casey
10. Paeder Kearney

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Ten Bands I've Somehow Managed To Avoid Seeing Live


1. Oasis
2. Pixies
3. St Etienne
4. Morrissey
5. Portishead
6. Bruce Springsteen
7. David Bowie
8. Grace Jones
9. Depeche Mode
10. Kraftwerk

Monday, October 05, 2009

Ten Uses of the Verbs 'Sough'/'Slough' by Norman Mailer


1. "...the soughing of surf" ('The Naked And The Dead')
2. "After a hundred yards they were forced to slough through..." ('The Naked And The Dead')
3. "Live with your cowardice… Hate it or defend it, but don't try to slough it off." ('The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts On Writing')
4. "…a New England wind… came soughing out of the sky" ('Advertisements For Myself')
5. "…even the sloughing of prejudice, particularly when it is abrupt, partakes of the naive" ('Advertisements For Myself')
6. "...the wind soughed through the draws" ('The Naked And The Dead')
7. "Whatever strait-jacket there had been about his movements lately would be sloughed off…" ('The Naked And The Dead')
8. "…as he had sloughed off Hearn" ('The Naked And The Dead')
9. "The president was, after all, getting into the same slough of muddy reasoning as the liberals" ('How the Wimp Won the War')
10. "there is still hope for me if only I can slough the hundred crimes upon my head" ('Barbary Shore')

Top Ten Causes of Injury in the Street in 1887 (number of injuries in brackets)


1. Light Cart (1,138)
2. Cabs (919)
3. Vans (683)
4. Omnibuses and Cars (346)
5. Broughmans and Carriages (345)
6. Heavy Carts (153)
7. Horses Ridden (135)
8. Wagons and Drays (133)
9. Covered Vehicles (67)
10. Velocipedes (53)

Monday, September 07, 2009

Ten Lessons I Learnt From My Brother


1. Everything sounds funny in a West Country accent
2. The glass is always full
3. The Greatest Love Of All is an awesome song by George Benson, not a crappy song by Whitney Houston
4. There's always time
5. The weaker sex is the one that thinks one sex is weaker
6. You can solve most things with a smile
7. Never be scared of straight lines
8. Stay friends with your exes
9. You can usually rely on a farmer to pull you out of a ditch
10. Always be the good guy

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Ten Nuclear Strategies Considered By WOPR (War Operations Plan Response) In The Film Wargames


1. Sudan Surprise
2. Hong Kong Variant
3. Venezuela Sudden
4. Seato Decapitating
5. English Escalation
6. Chad Alert
7. Iraq Sovereignty
8. Mongolian Thrust
9. Turkish Heavy
10. Bulgarian Clandestine

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Ten Worst Ideas That Have Been Touched By The Hand Of 'McG'


1. Charlie's Angels
2. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
3. Terminator Salvation
4. Terminator 5
5. The 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea remake
6. The Revenge of the Nerds remake
7. Hot Wheels
8. Offspring's Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) video
9. The Spaced Remake
10. His name

Ten Arsenal Football Clubs


1 FK Arsenal, Serbia
2 FK Arsenal, Montenegro
3 FC Arsenal Kyiv, Ukraine
4 Arsenal Wanderers, Mauritius
5 Arsenal de Sarandí, Argentina
6 Arsenal (Maseru), Lesotho
7 Berekum Arsenal, Ghana
8 FC Arsenal Kazanlak, Bulgaria
9 Arsenal FC (Roatan), Honduras
10 FC Arsenal-Tula Tuka (Russia)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ten Things 'They' Will Probably Consider Bringing The Face Magazine Back As


1. A Twitter update
2. A ringtone
3. An iPhone 'App'
4. One of those papers you find at the bottom of the escalators in the tube
5. A 'brand extension' 
6. A banner ad
7. A ROFLcopter
8. Zoo with more fashion-related breasts
9. A social network
10. All of the above