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Dance Moves of the Philosophy Graduate Studentby Bijan Samareh (4/8/2013)
Bank Insecurity Questions
by Nick Asbury (4/4/2013)
Appropriate Jigsaw Puzzle Pictures
by Liz Arcury (4/2/2013)
Plagues of Egypt That Did Not Make the God of Abraham’s Final Cut
by David Bailey (3/28/2013)
Arguments Against Gay Marriage
by Mark Hill (3/27/2013)
Rejected Schoolhouse Rock! Songs
by Robin Higgins (3/26/2013)
An Increasingly Obvious Cry for Help in the Form of Seamless Food Delivery Special Instructions
by Michael Levy (3/21/2013)
Politically Correct Terms for Politically Incorrect Terms
by Evan Allgood (3/19/2013)
Famous Works of Literature Reimagined to Reflect America’s Present Obesity Crisis
by Al Caggforth (3/14/2013)
Ways to Keep Me Engaged While You Talk About Your Dreams
by Meg Thompson (3/12/2013)
An Updated List of Yearbook Senior Superlatives for the 21st Century
by Rachel Klein (3/5/2013)
Washington State’s New Field Sobriety Tests to Check for Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana
by Hart Rusen (2/28/2013)
More Accurate Names for the Generic Cereals Consumed While Broke and Unemployed
by Roxanne Maikranz and Sara Sabol-Maikranz (2/21/2013)
Instagram Filters Inspired by My Parents’ Reaction to Yet Another Return Home as a Single Man Who Has Still Not Enrolled In Graduate School
by Jack Loftus (2/19/2013)
Presidents’ Day Greeting Card Messages
by Susan Cohen (2/18/2013)
Some Things That are Worse Than Being Alone on Valentine’s Day
by Ali Garfinkel (2/14/2013)
Rom.coms
by Rachel Miller and Sophie Cooper (2/14/2013)
Taylor Swift’s B-Sides
by Jeremy Purser (2/11/2013)
Short Biographies of the Original Seven Astronauts of the National Trebuchet and Space Administration
by David Harnden-Warwick (2/6/2013)
Words That Could Conceivably Be Used to Describe Both the Super Bowl and a Superb Owl
by Michael Ward (2/1/2013)
Additional Myers-Briggs Personality Types
by James Hannaham (1/31/2013)
Wittgenstein Does Faulkner
by Steven D. Stark (1/24/2013)
Words That I Need for My Dissertation That Don’t Exist
by Carmen Faye Mathes (1/15/2013)
Writer Rating Categories for Madden LIT 2013
by Sam Katz (1/10/2013)
Ideas for O, The Oprah Magazine Cover Photos
by Michael Balazo (1/8/2013)
New Year’s Resolutions
by Greg Wayne and Teddy Wayne (12/30/2012)
Things Highlighted in My Ninth Grade Copy of Frankenstein That Also Describe My Adolescence
by Laura Registrato (12/20/2012)
How Some Yoga Instructors Came to Their Practice
by Caitlin Kunkel (12/18/2012)
Answers to Rhetorical Questions Posed by Movie Titles
by Ethan Ryan (12/11/2012)
Inverted Reality Show Clichés.
by Jason Guder (12/6/2012)
Pretentious Trees
by Doogie Horner (11/29/2012)
Actual Similes (and One Metaphor) Found in Teacher Education Texts
by Elizabeth Cunningham (11/27/2012)
The Modern-Day Pantheon
by Katie Brookoff (11/16/2012)
Things In an Organic Chemistry Lab That Sound Dirty, But Aren’t
by Lizzy Scheibel (11/15/2012)
Actual Musicals That Could Be Academic Journals If They Had Their Exclamation Marks Removed
by Alan Finlayson (11/7/2012)
Horror Film Quote or Internet Dating Site First Date?
by Sarah Marcus (10/31/2012)
Halloween Costumes I Already Have in My Closet
by Wendi Aarons (10/31/2012)
Manhattan Coffee Shop or Material Used in the Construction of a Traditional Powhatan Indian Longhouse?
by Will Bareford (10/25/2012)
Five Stay-At-Home Mom Lists of Lists That I’ve Started But Won’t Finish Because I Am a Stay-At-Mom and Don’t Have the Time
by Andrea Fox (10/23/2012)
Seasonal Candy Affective Disorder
by Lauren Le Vine (10/18/2012)
Early American Presidential Voting Blocs
by Miles Kahn (10/16/2012)
Names of Nail Polishes My 74-Year-Old Grandma Barb Would Just Love
by Angela Petrella (10/11/2012)
Lesser-Known Paradoxes
by David Yontz (10/9/2012)
What Your Favorite Classic NES Video Game Says About You
by John Peck (10/4/2012)
Inchoate Versions of Band Names
by Nick Leggatt and Robert Jenkins (9/27/2012)
Small Poetry Journal Names That Reflect the True Nature of Writing Poetry
by Elizabeth Bastos (9/20/2012)
Ailment or Florida?
by Mike Zuckerman (9/13/2012)
McSweeney’s Lists My Friend Heather Would Have Submitted Had She Beat Cancer
by Sheridan MacAuley (9/6/2012)
Hemingway or My Mother’s Email?
by Jen Girdish (8/30/2012)
Several Phrases More Accurate Than “This Isn’t My First Rodeo.”
by Ben Slotky (8/23/2012)
Places Blondes Don’t Have More Fun
by Julia Leggett (8/21/2012)
Features I Demand In a Home After Watching HGTV’s House Hunters
by Ashleigh Lambert (8/16/2012)
Screening Questions for Potential Roommates (Based on Ten Years of Living with Strangers)
by Caroline Hansen (8/9/2012)
Useful New Internet Error Messages
by Rupinder Gill (8/7/2012)
Questions From a Helpless Megabus Passenger
by Sarah Isaacson (8/2/2012)
Dives Not Recognized by the Olympic Diving Committee
by Peter Schooff (7/27/2012)
Your Password Must Contain the Following
by Eric K. Auld (7/26/2012)
A Love Story in Status Codes
by Justin Robert Souza (7/24/2012)
Pre-Internet Companies Rebranded as Modern-Day Start-Ups
by Mike Lacher (7/19/2012)
Suggested Buzzfeed Articles
by Jory John (7/17/2012)
Hall & Joyce Carol Oates’ Greatest Hits
by Langan Kingsley (7/11/2012)
Glam Rock Front Man or U.S. President Between Jackson and Lincoln?
by Christopher Flores (7/3/2012)
Things Therapists Say When They Realize You’re a Lost Cause
by Kristine Angelino (6/29/2012)
Counterintuitive Cover Stories in The Atlantic Magazine
by Zachary Pincus-Roth (6/21/2012)
Poetic Form or Star Trek Villain?
by Allen Rein (6/14/2012)
Don Draper Rates the Strength of Your WiFi Password
by James Ramsay (6/7/2012)
Possible Titles for a Self-Portrait at 42
by Amorak Huey (5/31/2012)
Increasingly Threatening Taglines for Beauty Products
by Kendra Eash (5/24/2012)
Boy Scout Merit Badge Projects
by Jerry Renek (5/22/2012)
Three Steps for Exciting Storytelling
by Colin Hunt (5/17/2012)
The Ten Commandments of Pointless Office Meetings
by Anika Fajardo (5/10/2012)
Chinese Restaurant Menu Items That Sound Like Titles of Cocteau Twins’ Songs
by Scott Heim (5/8/2012)
Epitaphs from Oregon Trail After Some Eighth Grade Boys Had Used the Computer
by Anna Breslaw (5/3/2012)
Ben Geller-Willick’s Lost Friends Episodes
by Michael McGrath and Richard Lawson (4/26/2012)
50 Shades to Leave Your Lover
by Max Lakin (4/24/2012)
Fake Massachusetts Towns
by Michael Andor Brodeur (4/12/2012)
Sociological Observations of Norwegian Black Metal Bands
by Austin S. Matthews (4/10/2012)
News Headlines From My Apartment
by Stef Willen (4/5/2012)
Things I Said to My Infantry Platoon in Afghanistan, and What I Probably Should Have Said Instead
by Matthew Mobley (3/20/2012)
Honest Spotify Playlists
by Patrick McKay (3/15/2012)
Fitness Magazine Has Some Questions for You
by Maria Adelmann (3/13/2012)
Hipster Logic Problems
by Larry Fleury (3/8/2012)
Mathematical Translations of Popular Refrains
by Kristopher Kelly (3/6/2012)
Rejected AWP Panels
by Dan Moreau (3/1/2012)
New Food Mashups
by Miles Kahn (2/28/2012)
Lines from The Princess Bride that Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers
by Jennifer Simonson (2/23/2012)
Job Interview Responses From a Millennial Liberal Arts Major
by Michael McBain (2/16/2012)
New and Noteworthy Name Generators
by Allen Rein (2/7/2012)
Jazz Standards Updated for the Modern Young Lady
by Andi Sharavsky (1/24/2012)
Things Liberal Arts Graduates Never Like Hearing
by Rocky Rakovic (1/20/2012)
A Day’s Worth of Facts to Get You Through Wikipedia’s 24-Hour Blackout
by Ben Greenman (1/18/2012)
Articles of the U.S. Constitution
by Grace Gordon (1/12/2012)
Important New Emoticons
by Mira Ptacin and Seth Fried (1/6/2012)
Sexting Ice Breakers for English Grad Students
by Hollie Adams (1/4/2012)
Fun Holiday Recipes for Self-Sufficient Singles
by Amy Cannon (12/23/2011)
All-Inclusive Holiday Songs
by Jill Jaracz (12/21/2011)
Holiday Beers
by Meg Pokrass (12/19/2011)
Phobias of the Modern Teen
by Jill Bronfman (12/14/2011)
DSM-5 Diagnoses for Toad from Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad Stories
by Amy Powell Faeskorn (12/12/2011)
Quotes From My TED Talk
by Wendy Molyneux (12/8/2011)