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Bethany’s Top Five Versions of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
We don’t know if anyone still does a full twelve days of Christmas, but here are our top five versions of the song.
Full StoryTop Five Anti-Christmas Christmas Songs
5. “Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)” by Wham! 4. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” by Dr. Elmo 3. “Christmas Song” by Jethro Tull 2. “Father Christmas” by The Kinks 1. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”: has there ever been a more passive-aggressive song? You tell ‘em, Judy! ErnieErnest Hilbert is [...]
Full StoryTop Five Silliest Military Dress Uniforms
Bethany says: “There’s enough ridicule to go around, so please don’t be offended if I single your own nation’s uniform out for its sartorial flights of fancy.”
Full Story“Don’t Stop Believing”: Top Five Band Video Games
Two one-time scourges of the civilized world, video games and rock music, sometimes come together and threaten to corrupt the youth of America. Here are some bands that had the audacity (or foresightedness) to release video games that incorporated their stage personae and songs.
Full Story“OK, Kid, I’ve Got Ten Seconds to Spare: What’s Your Movie Idea and What’s it Called? Go!”: Top Five Movie Titles that Basically Explain the Plot
Movie titles are getting dumber. Or so it seems. They’ve basically become short-hand for the actual plot, or at least substance, barring the presence of a plot, as we so often find. Here are a few good ones.
Full StoryBosses Beware! Top Five Amusing, Time-wasting Websites
Get ready to waste some time . . .
Full StoryTop Five Sexiest Bald Men
Forget Hair Club for Men. Bethany rolls out the sexiest bald men.
Full Story“The Highway’s Jammed with Broken Heroes!”: Top Five “New Jersey” Songs
Not songs about New Jersey, per se, but songs that conjure life and times in New Jersey, high, low, good, bad.
Full StoryTop Five Defaced Statues of Deposed Dictators
As long as there have been dictators, there have been ugly statues they’ve commissioned to show people how awesome they are (“Ozymandias” anyone?). Seems a little silly, until you see the enthusiasm with which their former subjects destroy those statues once the dictators are gone.
Full Story“I Saw the Spiders Marching through the Air”: Top Five Spider Poems
They creep, they crawl, they net pests, they send a shiver down the spine if they get too big, but we find them endlessly fascinating. Let’s have a look at some spider poems. Please post your own favorites in the comments below.
Full StoryTop Five Na Na Na Sing-Along Songs
You know them, those songs that hit a big chorus or coda with no words, and everyone in the room, drawn irresistably, begins singing along, na na na-na na, or lalala, lala, laddada. I call them “na na na” songs, and they make you smile, especially on a summer evening. Here are some of our favorites. There are many more. Please let us know your favorite.
Full StoryTop Five People You Don’t Think of As Being Younger than Betty White
We all know Betty White is really old (89! She was born January 17, 1922) yet amazingly energetic and quick witted. But her toughness and health become even more impressive when compared to some other famous people who are younger than she and have been dead for so many years that they truly seem to be of another era. All they accomplished happened decades ago. What could they have achieved had they lived as long as Betty?
Full Story“Finally . . .”: Top Five Movie Sequels and Prequels that Appeared Long after Their Predecessors
Who knows why they wait so long. Maybe the stars or creators need some money. Maybe it’s just another mid-life crisis. Maybe everyone was bored and decided to bring a series back long after its sell-by date. Let’s have a look at some prime examples, with thanks to David Sanders, Juliana Gray, Joe Fay, Jim [...]
Full StoryTop Five Lines by Charlton Heston
The new Planet of the Apes prequel is in theaters, so in its honor, here are the top five Charlton Heston lines. There are movies out there that would have been completely forgotten if not for Heston’s inimitable emoting.
Full StoryTop Five Wizard of Oz Pastiches
First there was The Wizard of Oz (1900), a simple fantasy of a little girl who finds a magical world, much as Alice did, except this one has a distinctly American slant. Subsequently, there have been lots of pastiches of Oz . . .
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Top Five Daily Show Gotcha Videos of Fox News
The Daily Show specializes in calling out reporters and politicians when they’re lying, or playing clips that show people contradicting themselves or being hypocritical.They’ve done it a lot; here are five of their best.
Full StoryTop Five Cowboys and Aliens!
The blockbuster Cowboys and Aliens, starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, is premiering at Comicon and then in general release
this coming weekend. But if you can’t wait . . . or if you want another fix of science fiction and the western genre, here you go.
Top Five More People Born on the Same Day
Bethany is back with more famous people who share birthdays.
Full StoryTop Five Older Men who Got Engaged to or Married Teenaged Girls
In the wake of the controversy surrounding the marriage of 51-year-old “Lost” actor Doug Hutchison to 16-year-old Courtney Alexis Stodden, let’s take a look at some other older men who got engaged to or married teenaged girls.
Full Story“She breathed on me! A dead person breathed on me!”: Top Five Conventions of the Road Movie
We’ve all seen road movies, Thelma and Louise; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; Little Miss Sunshine; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; National Lampoon’s Vacation… or even Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder’s buddy road movie, The Frisco Kid. Whatever the movie, however wild and free we’re supposed to believe it to be, they always observe these basic conventions. 5. [...]
Full StoryTop Five Fictional Works in Which a White Person Relates the Experience of Blacks
Bethany takes on another controversial topic.
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“I Just Stole Fifty Cars in One Night! . . . and I Think I Deserve a Little Appreciation!”: Top Five Nicolas Cage Movies Centered on Driving
There are twp things Nicolas Cage (or his agent) likes: driving fast and tangling with supernatural forces. Most of his films seem to fit into those categories. Here are his top five movies involving vehicles, and his top five movies involving the supernatural.
Full StoryTop Five Movie Posters in “This” Style
Is it really that hard to come up with a movie poster? Yes, if you want to break new ground and really astound potential movie-goers. If not, it’s easy to just grab a template that’s worked before and use it. Here are some “face-off” style movie posters in the same style.
Full Story“As long as there’s, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll”: Top Five Rock ‘n’ Roll Novels by Ernest Hilbert and Henry Wessells (with Help from Rose Solari and Others)
Rock ‘n’ Roll has saturated every aspect of mass culture and even become something of a boutique, or museum, style of music, like Dixieland or Strauss Waltzes. It’s still vibrant in the world of new bands emerging today, as well as a few classic acts that continue to kill on stage, and the mystique of the golden age continues to entrance authors and audiences alike. Let’s have a look at some novels that make use of Rock ‘n’ Roll!
Full StoryTop Five Movies in which Jim Carrey Plays an Asshole who Learns a Valuable Lesson Due to Magical Intervention
When screenwriters work on a script, they typically have a particular actor in mind for a role. This makes it easier for a producer to actually imagine what the movie might look like. As a result, some big-league actors become typecast while rising to the A-List. Here are some roles that funnyman Jim Carrey will probably feel he needs to play against in coming years.
Full StoryTop Five Female Politicians Caught up in Sex Scandals
In the wake of several prominent sex scandals in 2011 (IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn accused of sexual assault; Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s philandering ways highlighted; former California governor and Republican party star Arnold Schwarzenegger found to have fathered a child out of wedlock and accused of numerous affairs and groping; House Representative Anthony Weiner’s Twitter titillations; married congressman and family values advocate Chris Lee found to be soliciting sexual relationships with transsexuals on Craigslist; and abstinence-only advocate and congressman Mark Souder found to be carrying on an extramarital affair with a staffer), there have been a number of articles published explaining that women politicians aren’t involved in sex scandals nearly to the extent that male politicians are. Well, OK, that is true (though most of the affairs were with women, so we can’t say that women aren’t involved in scandals, just that they’re not politicians while doing so). However, women politicians sometimes do have sex scandals. I had to search high and low across decades, and extend the search internationally, to find these examples (in contrast to the guys, for whom there were an abundance of examples from the past 6 months alone), but here are the top five!
Full Story“It’s Just a Flesh Wound!”: Top Five People Famous for Losing Extremities
Here are some folks who grew famous as the result of losing a body part. They may have had some notoriety beforehand, but it was the loss of the body part that pushed them into national or international fame.
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