Top Ten Reasons ‘Top Ten Decade Lists’ Are Meaningless

12.30.09 Culture, Observations no comments

1 ) Top Ten Decade Lists are like assholes. And you know what they say about assholes: everyone has one.

2 ) Somehow nothing I like appears on these list, so I made my own

3 ) Pop culture is just so cool; it requires such drivel

4 ) I really, really care who the worst/best/greatest couples of the decade were—really I do

5 ) The guy who feels like after 10 you might be interested in his rankings beyond that. This one goes to 26: New Yorker — “Best Films of the Decade”

6 ) Is there any other reason to make the “Top Ten New Health Scares of the Decade” other than to illicit new fear? I’d like to see ABC do a “Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Do Journalism”

7 ) I just participated in this profundity

8 ) Any list of top ten “music artists” includes nobody I’ve ever desired listening to

9 ) The number 10 is just annoying. It’s too regular, boring, uncreative, predictable, and forced.

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