Lists Galore!

So long, and thanks for all the lists

2012-03-18T17:24:00.000-06:00

Dear Readers,

It is with mixed feelings that I have decided to stop publishing Lists Galore.

I started Lists Galore 5 years ago as a place to celebrate my obsession with lists. Fantastic lists were all over the internet and I made it my mission to track them down and share them with my readers. There was an embarrassment of riches when it came to awesome lists.

Recently, however, low-quality lists have become more and more prevalent. I find myself sorting through way too much trash in order to find the gems. It's just not fun anymore.

I'm sure I'll still stumble across awesome lists and, when I do, I'll share them on Twitter. I may occasionally feel the need to create lists of my own, which I'll now do on Pinterest. And of course I'll still post over on my other blog, Bored Blog Almighty.

Lists Galore will remain online, exactly as it is, but there won't be any more new posts and in a week or so I'll close the comments.

Thank you, dear readers, for sharing my love of lists. Thank you for your attention, your comments, and your support. It's been fun.

All the best,
Andi

Hold your head up

2012-03-09T17:00:00.007-07:00

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Strong women, strong world

2012-03-06T17:00:00.010-07:00

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March 8 is International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

5 pioneering women
Five weird facts about your wife's brain
6 things everyone knows about women (that aren't true)
Seven underrated (female) TV comedy writers to watch
The seven best big-screen geek girls
8 things women are better at
8 real women who deserve their own movies
10 extremely inspirational women
Top 10 female adventurers
Top 10 female directors
Fiction's top ten most famous "nice girls"
The 10 most powerful women authors
Top 10 most powerful women of the decade
Top 10 positively portrayed female game characters
Top 10 reasons the American future is female
Top 10 things that women invented
Top 10 warrior women
Top 10 women on Broadway
11 women warriors of World War II
The 15 most badass heroines in film
Top female leaders around the world
Women at work during World War II

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Quick list :: you really shouldn't

2012-03-04T17:00:00.029-07:00

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5 topics you shouldn't touch when giving a wedding toast
5 things that shouldn't exist in the future yet still show up in sci-fi all the time
6 lies you shouldn't tell your doctor
Top 10 movies that shouldn't have made it to Broadway
10 questions you shouldn't ask a new mom
10 rock star bios you shouldn't bother reading
10 things guys include on their online dating profiles...but shouldn't
10 things we shouldn't be frying
10 things women include in their online dating profiles...but shouldn't
Top ten things women shouldn't do in public
Top 10 things your girlfriend shouldn't know
Worst celebrity singers: 12 people who shouldn't quit their day jobs
What not to post on Facebook: 13 things you shouldn't tell your Facebook friends

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Leap year: the facts, figures and far-out families

2012-02-28T17:00:00.008-07:00

Leap year: the facts, figures and far-out families

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Maybe I'm amazed

2012-02-26T17:00:00.038-07:00

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4 amazing things chili peppers can do
7 amazing engineering wonders of today & tomorrow
7 amazing lessons from peak performance coach Tony Robbins
8 amazing garage sale finds
10 amazing car concepts to drive us into future
10 amazing Facebook facts you probably don't know (or don't care)
10 amazing facts about dreams
10 amazing geek bars and restaurants
10 amazing letters from presidents
Top 10 amazing lost or suppressed inventions
Ten amazing performances from Sesame Street
The 10 most amazing discoveries of modern astronomy
That's hot: the 10 most amazing deserts
10 more amazing facts about dreams
10 most amazing flashmobs
10 truly amazing tree houses
From curing dandruff to finding you a husband: 11 amazing benefits of Listerine
11 amazing thank you notes from famous people
11 most amazing college libraries in the world
15 rare, exotic & amazing plant species
17 amazing food carvings
Lipstick art: 20 amazing photos you won't believe!
100 amazing memory hacks to maximize your brain
Amazing automatons: ancient robots

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The Oscars

2012-02-24T17:00:00.003-07:00

Kids re-enact 2011 five best picture nominees
Top 5 embarrassing Oscar moments
Top 5 Oscar nomination mysteries solved
5 reasons the Oscars matter even less than you thought
Top 5 ways to fix the Oscars
Six actresses who sacrificed their beauty for Oscar nods
8 humiliating Japanese ads starring Oscar nominees
Top 10 actors who haven't won an Oscar
10 bygone (or rejected) Academy Awards categories
10 interesting Academy Award winners
10 memorable Oscar acceptance speeches
Top 10 Oscar nomination snubs
Top 10 post-Oscar busts
10 shocking Oscar upsets
10 things you didn't know about the Oscars
Top 10 unique post-Oscar acting careers
Top 10 wasted Oscars
10 ways not to win an Oscar
Top 10 worst best picture winners
11 actresses who won Oscars by playing prostitutes
15 female Oscar snubs of the past 15 years
15 male Oscar snubs of the past 15 years
The 2011 Oscars: 20 best and worst looks
The 20 best pieces of bling at the 2011 Academy Awards
20 best picture films that were even better books
The Oscars: 21 fixes for the show so it's less boring
50 greatest Oscar moments
If the 2011 best picture nominee posters told the truth
If 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth
The 2011 best picture Oscar nominees in Lego

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Best pictures

2012-02-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

The 5 best and 5 worst Stephen King films
The 5 best movies about television
Five best 'Saturday Night Live' movies
Top 10 best basketball movies of all-time
Ten best blaxploitation movies
The 10 best 'end of the world' movies
The 10 best films about teaching
10 best movie dream sequences
The 10 best movies about genius
The top ten best movies set in San Francisco
10 best movies that take place in one day
The ten best new year's moments on screen
10 best of the worst films
The 10 best romantic comedy duos of all time
The 10 best twist endings in movies
20 of the best sci-fi time travel movies
The 25 best horror movies of all time
The 25 best movie remakes of all time
50 best movie kisses
50 of the best music moments in film history
The best 1,000 movies ever made
Cinema's best sweaty moments

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The best movies of all time map

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20 years of Bart Simpson's chalkboard quotes

2012-02-19T17:00:00.009-07:00

Read all 288 of Bart Simpson's chalkboard quotes

(via: cabletv.com)

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Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator

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25 of the best Criminal Minds quotes

2012-02-16T17:00:00.007-07:00

Nearly every episode of the TV show Criminal Minds begins and ends with a thought-provoking quote. These are some of the best ones from Seasons 5 through 7:

one

"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." - Carl Kraus
(Season 5: Nameless, Faceless)

two

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." - Blaise Pascal
(Season 5: Reckoner)

three

"There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness." - Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(Season 5: Hopeless)

four

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." - William D. Tammeus
(Season 5: Cradle to Grave)

five

"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." - Albert Einstein
(Season 5: Outfoxed)

six

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Season 5: The Slave of Duty)

seven

"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions." - Mildred Lisette Norman
(Season 5: The Uncanny Valley)

eight

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." - Isaac Asimov
(Season 5: The Uncanny Valley)

nine

"We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life." - Tennessee Williams
(Season 5: Solitary Man)

ten

"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw
(Season 5: The Internet Is Forever)

eleven

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." - Eric Schmidt
(Season 5: The Internet Is Forever)

twelve

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were." - Marcel Proust
(Season 6: Remembrance of Things Past)

thirteen

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln
(Season 6: Compromising Positions)

fourteen

"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." - Bernard Malamud
(Season 6: Middle Man)

fifteen

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
(Season 6: 25 to Life)

sixteen

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Season 6: Corazón)

seventeen

"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering." - Frederich Nietzsche
(Season 6: The Thirteenth Step)

eighteen

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu
(Season 6: Valhalla)

nineteen

"The past cannot be cured." - Queen Elizabeth I
(Season 7: It Takes a Village)

twenty

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." - Scott Adams
(Season 7: Proof)

twenty-one

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it." - Mary Catherine Bateson
(Season 7: Epilogue)

twenty-two

"Things do not change. We change." - Henry David Thoreau
(Season 7: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy)

twenty-three

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." - Joe Louis
(Season 7: The Bittersweet Science)

twenty-four

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse
(Season 7: The Bittersweet Science)

twenty-five

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin
(Season 7: True Genius)

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Words get in the way

2012-02-14T17:00:00.014-07:00

5 fun facts about letter frequency
The power of language: 5 wicked words that are sabotaging your success
The 5 worst words ever used in food advertising
Top 10 charming words for nasty people
10 commonly misunderstood words in English
The 10 greatest words invented by the Simpsons
10 hard to translate English words
Top 10 misused English words
10 origins of common internet terms
10 ways to cuss without cussing on Twitter
10 words originating from Greek mythology
11 antiquated "P" words from the American slang dictionary
11 brand names with unfortunate foreign translations
11 funniest flubs in spelling bee history
11 words with surprising derivations
15 wonderful words with no English equivalent
14 more wonderful words with no English equivalent
19 outstanding words you should be working into conversation
25 one-word answers to very important questions
30 travel terms that don't exist but should
100 mostly small but expressive interjections
A flappers' dictionary
List of words banished from the Queen's English for misuse, overuse and general uselessness
Unused but useful: Oxford English Dictionary's reject list
The words that defined 2011

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Portraits of authors in their own words

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XOXO

2012-02-12T17:00:00.060-07:00

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#typenerdytome: top 5 Valentine one-liners
Five ways to survive Valentine's Day
5 ways we can revolt against V-day
8 most expensive romantic gestures ever
Top 10 things to do on Valentine's Day
Top 10 tips for having a great Valentine's Day
Ten tips to keeping your Valentine
Top 10 Valentine gifts for you
Top ten Valentine's Day gifts that give back
Pause that proposal - 10 ways not to pop the question this Valentine's
10 ways not to screw up Valentine's Day
12 science Valentines
14 miserable facts about St Valentine's Day
25 ways to enjoy and have fun on this wonderful beautiful Valentine's Day
25 ways to say "I love you" for Valentine's Day
50 geeky love letters & cards
52 funny, geeky Valentine's cards
101 best Valentine's Day quotes
Cheap Valentine's Day dates for geeks
Geeky Valentine's Day cards
Geeky Valentine's Day date ideas
Google's Valentine's Day doodle through the years
Ideas for single people without a date on Valentine's Day (...and some reasons to enjoy being single!)
This Valentine's Day, say it with bacon
Valentine's Day by the numbers

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Nerd Valentine

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10 interesting words & phrases facts

2012-02-02T17:00:00.006-07:00

10 interesting words & phrases facts

Source: Today I found out

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Quick list :: secrets of success

2012-01-31T17:00:00.032-07:00

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5 crippling beliefs that keep people stuck, unsuccessful, and mediocre for life
Five ways to smooth the bumps in your road to success
Six simple factors for successful goal setting
7 free things that will shove success in your face
J.C. Penney’s 7 keys to a smashing success
7 ways to accelerate your journey to success
8 ways to turn disappointment into success: rebounding from failure
10 ways to make sure you fail
Top 10 ways to succeed at failure
12 things successful people do differently
20 powerful beliefs that will push you toward success

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Success is a decision

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Blast from the past

2012-01-29T17:00:00.035-07:00

The 8 most wildly irresponsible vintage toys
9 vintage tattoos
13 funny & ridiculous vintage Christmas advertisements
13 hyper vintage pieces of furniture
The 15 creepiest vintage ads of all time
15 sexist vintage ads
15 vintage computer ads that used to be cool
15 vintage chewing gum ads
16 vintage video game console commercials
20 odd vintage products you won’t find today
25 nostalgic vintage travel postcards
ZAP! 27 vintage sci fi damsels in distress
35 portraits of vintage affectionate men
37 vintage travel posters from the Library of Congress
45 incredibly stylish vintage travel print ads
55 colorful masterpieces of vintage advertisement
100+ vintage lunchboxes
Randy Regier's vintage toys of the future
Video games depicted as fake vintage book covers
Vintage canned meat advertisements
Vintage technologies that we no longer use

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The cult of done manifesto

2012-01-26T17:00:00.015-07:00

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Never ever

2012-01-24T17:00:00.029-07:00

5 events you should never tweet through
5 frugal living ideas you would never think of
6 great marching bands that never were
6 movie plot holes you never noticed thanks to editing
8 amazing hidden rooftop houses you've probably never noticed in New York City
9 movies that never should’ve become musicals
10 awesome ad campaigns you've never heard of
The 10 best zombie movies you’ve never seen
10 crazy-good covers you’ve probably never heard
10 cultural touchstones of the '90s that should never come back
Ten of the best original songs never to win an Oscar
10 things grown-ups should never have given up
10 things that never go on sale
‘Wacky’pedia: 10 things you never knew about Wikipedia
10 things you should never, ever wear to a wedding
11 sounds that your kids have probably never heard
12 pictures you will never look at them in the same way again
14 things that never happen in real life
16 sodas you will never drink again
16 things you should never microwave
21 reasons you should never take pictures with an iPad
25 acronyms you never stopped to figure out
25 fears you never knew existed
100 things you'll never regret doing

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Our children will never know the link between the two...

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Tell me how

2012-01-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

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5 compelling reasons to readjust your information diet, and how to do it
5 emotional vampires and how to combat them
5 great tutorial websites to learn how to do something
How to turn a bad day around: 5 helpful steps
How to be charismatic: 7 powerful tips from the mentalist
How to deal with exhaustion: 10 tips to function better when you're tired
How to be kinder: 11 fine tips
15 internet annoyances and how to fix them
How to create a kick-ass life: 15 of my favorite timeless tips
How to say "I ate my cat" in 36 languages
How to say "I love you" in 100 languages
How to avoid getting screwed when you're a tourist
How to be a badass
How to deal with annoying people
How to eat when you're really broke
How to get a job in an awful economy
How to get fit when you're a couch potato
How to get unstuck
How to have bad sex
How to not die in a plane crash
How to simplify when you love your stuff
How to suck at Facebook
How to walk in nine U.S. cities

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2012-01-19T17:00:00.007-07:00

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Quick list :: omg, plz txt me!

2012-01-17T17:00:00.036-07:00

Damn You Auto Correct reveals 9 funniest texts of the year
10 acronyms I wish would catch on for texting
Excessive texting: top 10 dangers you might not know
Top 10 flirty text messages
The 10 most annoying text habits ever
10 text messages every woman loves to get
10 things you probably shouldn’t text
10 unbelievable SMS texting stories
12 hilarious iPhone text messages
Embroidered text messages
(Imagined) text messages from famous trials
Texting for seniors

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Crazy Things Parents Text
Romeo and Juliet - text message version
Text talk pillows make me ROFL

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Channel surfing

2012-01-15T17:00:00.036-07:00

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4 crimes that inspired Law & Order episodes
The 5 worst sources of advice on television
6 beloved TV shows (that traumatized cast members for life)
6 classic kids shows slapped together from recycled material
The 7 nerdiest game shows of all time
Lost’s promo, and eight more television Last Suppers
10 best shows-within-shows in TV history
The 10 best sitcoms on TV right now
10 best true crime shows of all time
Top 10 bizarre TV shows for kids
10 genre TV shows you don't have to be a geek to love
10 Gleeful facts
Top 10 shows that overstayed their welcome
Top 10 TGIF shows of the 90s
10 things you never knew about The Brady Bunch
10 things you probably didn't know about the original Star Trek
10 TV characters who were cut from their shows too soon
10 TV shows that started out great but went bad
11 examples of Perfect Strangers fan art
12 fun facts about Lost in Space
16 notable game show winners
The 25 most-watched Oprah episodes
64 slices of American cheese, and four Other Simpsons-inspired meals
Alternative TV opening credits
Television's best recurring characters

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Days gone by

2012-01-12T17:00:00.032-07:00

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5 assassinations that shook the world
6 famous explorers who shaped the world (with insane lies)
6 historic events as they might have been tweeted
6 historic landmarks that wouldn't have existed without the lottery
7 books we lost to history that would have changed the world
History mysteries: 7 lost time capsules
Nine victims of King Tut's curse (and one who should have been)
Top 10 beautiful lady spies from history
Top 10 facts about Abraham Lincoln
10 funny Facebook status updates of historical people
10 incredibly significant moments in history
10 most amazing ancient objects of mystery in history
Top 10 most important UFO incidents in history
The 10 most tweeted moments of all time
10 things you didn’t know about Isaac Newton
10 worst moments in US history
Long live the queen! With 11 presidents
Pickup lines of 13 historical figures
History's 15 most notable spies
The best kisses in history
Marco Polo never got to Asia (plus more history myths)
Pictogram history posters

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20 brilliant Mae West quotes

2012-01-10T17:00:00.073-07:00

Mae West (August 17, 1893–November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer. The American Film Institute named West fifteenth among the greatest female stars of all time.

one

"Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

two

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

three

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

four

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."

five

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."

six

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."

seven

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."

eight

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

nine

"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

ten

"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."

eleven

"Don't keep a man guessing too long — he's sure to find the answer somewhere else."

twelve

"Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present."

thirteen

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."

fourteen

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

fifteen

"If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!"

sixteen

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

seventeen

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."

eighteen

"I've been in more laps than a napkin."

nineteen

"'Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'."

twenty

"I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it."

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Memories

2012-01-08T17:00:00.031-07:00

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The 6 most important things humanity just plain forgot
6 plot threads famous movies forgot to resolve
7 memorable sports chants
8 memorable rock songs from movies
Ten cereals you may not remember
10 food industry fads you probably forgot about
Top 10 forgotten & classic insults
10 forgotten facts about historical events
10 memorable movie poster controversies
10 most memorable Oprah moments
Top ten most memorable trips to Vegas
10 most memorable TV cameos
10 mostly (and deservedly) forgotten comic book movies
10 "Saturday Night Live" cast members you forgot
10 symbols whose meanings have been forgotten
10 unforgettable stories history forgot
10 weirdest ways to remember your deceased pet
25 things we forgot about pop culture in the 1980s
45 things we should forget about 2011
70 things to always remember

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Have a mission

2012-01-05T17:00:00.001-07:00

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