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Something that hadn’t dawned on us until just now: with stable, wage-earning jobs becoming ever-more scarce, will we suddenly see a sharp increase in dubious and unfounded lawsuits? If so, you’d better get creative because there’s no telling who’ll take you to court over an issue so trifling you that didn’t even know it was [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

Though the real presidential inauguration doesn’t go live until Tuesday, this story of a Lego inauguration has been making the rounds for some time now. In the spirit of all things that exist both as live action events and shadow Lego events, we revisited a favorite meme cycle to bring you Listicle’s 9 Best Lego [...]

With the Early Oscars (a.k.a. The Golden Globes) confirming our suspicions of a fairly mediocre award season ahead, and with the real Oscar nominations announcements only ten days away, we here at Listicles are taking refuge in the comforts of the past.
Perpetually disappointed by the marquee nominees and winners, we’re always most pleasantly surprised by [...]

We gave you non-denominational listicles about holiday-appropriate movie meals and denominationally derogatory Santa horror movies, and still you need to be un-PC and go looking for Christmas movies? Well, we certainly won’t help you, but the writers at Future of Classic are more tolerant of intolerance, hence their list: 10 Classic Christmas Movies. They almost [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]

As we enter big award show-season, Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations are among the most anticipated (and criticized) lists of the year. Last week’s award list came from the Golden Globes, announcing the nominees for the 2009 edition of the TV and movie award show.
Not important in and of themselves, people pay attention to [...]

Our friend (until she left us for cooler friends) Edith Zimmerman draws our attention to this hilarious list from those hard-working students at College On the Record, deftly observing the dominant costume trend of the day: The 15 Worst Joker Costumes.
As we noted yesterday with news that the Googlegeist has Heath Ledger as the most-searched [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]