The Top Five Top 5 Blog Posts
November 7th, 2007 by MarkI’m no fan of posts about the Top 5 thisses or Top 10 thats, but even I can hold out against the tide for so long.
The Top 5 Top 5 Blog Posts EVAR!
- The Recycled - this list will be comprised of only of points that you’ve seen in other lists, almost definitely in the same order. Under no circumstances will credit be given.
- The Obvious - One mind-numbingly obvious point after another, with an “ooh aren’t I so helpful” attitude suffused throughout.
- The Infuriating - makes claims of being “The definitive top five ____ ever!”, while replacing several absolutely crucial entries with whatever the uninformed author sees fit.
- The Anti-funny - not only is this list not funny, but it’s trying so desperately that reading it is like losing a piece of your soul… to Carrot Top.
- The Repetitive - a rundown of slightly different wordings of the same point that even a ward of OCD patients would disregard as just too damned repetitive. In other words, each item is pretty much the same, but worded slightly differently. Or you could say they’re repetitive.
- The Neverending - has useless extra items tacked on at the end, prolonging the suffering even further.
+1!!!
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November 8th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds these top 10 lists annoying. Sometimes they do offer something useful but usually it’s merely a blogger’s attempt to get his post onto Digg or del.icio.us/popular. It often works because people frequently “digg” a page just because the title sounds good or because it appears near the top of another social bookmarking popular list “so it must be good”.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Those lists are so annoying and not funny. Also found on TV
1) Letterman
2) Keith Oberman
Oh no I’m doing it now. Argh contagious.
November 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
The best part of this post is that it’s guilty of every single one of those five… er I mean six problems.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Buffalo Wild Wings? That’s a blast from the past. When we lived in Ohio, my wife and I were there so often that we were getting our mail sent there. Grease, salt and beer: it would be a great franchise here in Taiwan. According to Peter Lynch, we should buy companies that we’re personally familiar with and like, so maybe I should check it out.