100 Top Ten Lists

People just love to make lists—end of the year lists; top 100 film lists; 10 greatest pound-for-pound fighters, etc. I got an email the other day from my good friend AJ Schnack over at All These Wonderful Things and he is doing a list of people’s predictions for Sicko’s box office take (I already fear I guessed high.) Matt Dentler consistently releases his 5 Albums worth your 10 cents list. My belle is rather obsessed with lists. Wherever we go she brings along a little notebook and we’re always creating little lists; things to do, foods to try, books to read, movie roles we wish we could live out in real life, top 5 personal obsessive-compulsive tics…

And then, the other day, I found this: 5 People Who Have Died During Sex – And 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists by Karl Shaw. Did you know that in 1994 Peter Weiller, a German filmgoer, was beaten to death by ushers in a Bonn theatre because he brought his own popcorn? I bet not…but there it is in the Ten Food-Related Deaths list. Also in 1994 Ramon Barrero, player of the “world’s smallest harmonica” inhales and accidentally chokes to death on his instrument in mid-performance. Did you know that the actor Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while filming Lorne Green’s Wild Kingdom? Probably not, but he did if you believe the book. Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs…that’s Ovophobia to you and me.

Anyway, it’s way more fun than the new AFI top 100 list…

Comments

[Yoda]

Nice Blog. Too much writing, though. More pictures of hot chics, please!