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Russian Bolshevik Slogan or Prince Incarnation?by David Chambers (6/11/2004)
Judy Blume’s Lesser-Known Philosophy Texts
by Sam Thielman (6/11/2004)
List of Soothing Musical Terms or Potentially Deadly Biological Weapons
by Jason McGregor (6/2/2004)
Punch Lines Suggested by Ashton Kutcher for Punk’d that Were Rejected Due to Their Archaic Nature
by Afsheen Family (6/2/2004)
Dialects of the Common Bumblebee
by Michelle Orange (6/2/2004)
Plant-Animal Hybrids that May Result from Genetic Engineering
by J.D. Smith (5/24/2004)
What I Actually Mean When I Say I Love You: Thirty Scenarios
by Shelley McIntyre (5/24/2004)
Wasploitation Flicks
by Peter Schooff (5/24/2004)
Eighteen Very Early and Oft-Forgotten James Bond Films
by Andrew Howley (5/19/2004)
Erotic Presidential Names
by Patrick W. Gavin (5/19/2004)
Popular Song Titles which Have Been Altered So as Not to Offend the Very Prudish
by Paul Kaloper (5/19/2004)
Love Isn’t…
by Mike Sacks and Ted Travelstead (5/13/2004)
C-Span Reality Show Ideas Seeking to Capitalize on the Popularity of VH1’s Bands Reunited
by Dave Wilson (5/13/2004)
Apart from an Angel Getting Its Wings, Other Things That Happen Every Time a Bell Rings
by Bryan Hughes (5/13/2004)
Excerpts from Love: Family Style — How to Have a Happy Home By Dr. Clarence W. Kerr with Nathanael Olson, Cited Here in Support of President Bush’s Marriage-Advocacy Initiatives or the Blessed Institution of (Heterosexual) Marriage
by A.E. Sousa (5/7/2004)
Biological Terms or Theories that Sound Made Up
by Emma Sheppard (5/7/2004)
Playground Toys Unsuitable for Children
by Joshua Seely (5/7/2004)
My Heart Belongs to Puff Daddy: Proposed New Names for Sean “P. Diddy” Combs in Honor of St. Valentine’s Day
by Melissa Bell (5/3/2004)
Sensations I Would Have Gladly Endured for a Full Thirty Minutes in Lieu of the Eight Months of Constant Discomfort Resulting from a Pinched Sciatic Nerve (the Longest Nerve in the Body)
by Matt Sherman (5/3/2004)
Rethinking Horse Proverbs
by Joseph O'Brien (5/3/2004)
Recently Purchased Fruits that Are Hairy on the Inside or Outside
by Jonathan Rivnay (4/27/2004)
Kentucky Derby Winner or Kentucky Headhunters Song Title?
by Eric Hamiter (4/14/2004)
Selections from the Nixon/Haldeman Conversations of a Somewhat Compromised Historical Significance
by Jane Laughlin and Shauna McKenna (4/14/2004)
Selected Messages from the More Than 600 Posted on Yahoo News in Response to a Story About the University of Wisconsin at Madison Developing an Ultraviolet Laser to Slice Cheese by “Blasting Apart the Molecular Bonds.”
by Frank Bures (4/14/2004)
More Actual Entries From Cab Calloway’s Hepster’s Dictionary, Revised 1939 Edition
by Josh Weintraub (4/7/2004)
Twenty Miscellaneous Authors from My Dorm Bookshelf, with Corresponding Airport Codes
by David Andrew Shook (4/7/2004)
Bad Names for Undercover Police Officers
by Wendy Molyneux (4/4/2004)
Titles of B-Movie Westerns that Give the Impression the West Was Wilder Than Previously Imagined
by Jim Ruland (4/4/2004)
Currently Available Stock Symbols that Might Lead to an Underwhelming IPO
by Brian Sack (4/2/2004)
Anachronisms in Russell Crowe’s Films
by Timmy Waldren (3/23/2004)
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogans as Eleven Murder Mystery Titles and One Spy Thriller Title
by Mark Jensen (3/23/2004)
Random Passages Culled from Novels I Edited While Working at a Vanity Press
by Ken Mondschein (3/23/2004)
Grammatically Incorrect Sentences in the Space of Four Paragraphs in One Lesson of the Indiana Aware Driver Hoosier Ez Course Online Traffic School
by Jason Bredle (3/23/2004)
Possible Rhymes by Ice Cube After Being Knighted by the Queen
by Grant Vaught (3/23/2004)
Gospel Song Titles that Sound Dirty
by Angelo Young (3/19/2004)
Suggested Masters Thesis Titles Making Use of Puns on a 1983 Marvin Gaye Classic
by Jenny Kim and Michael Ward (3/19/2004)
Frequently Asked Questions About Expungements, According to the Website www.uslawbooks.com
by Afsheen Family (3/19/2004)
Selected Ohio University Undergraduate Honors Thesis Titles, 1999-Present, as Found on the Ohio University Honors Tutorial Website
by Caroline Nagy (3/15/2004)
Reported Legal Case Opinions Pertaining to or Mentioning Coleslaw
by John W. Vinson (3/15/2004)
Rejected Titles for Teen-Health Pamphlets
by Rachel Summer Tupelom (3/9/2004)
Eight Ways to Not Get Hit In the Face with a Brick
by Luke Hackney (3/9/2004)
Adjectives that, Depressingly, Apply to Various Products In My Bathroom but Not to Me, Personally
by Brendan Hill (3/7/2004)
PGA Golfers Who Might Have a Future in the Porn Industry
by Alex Gordon (3/7/2004)
Words That Could Conceivably Be Used to Describe Both Scalps and Scallops
by Michael Ward (2/27/2004)
Other Unfortunate Uses for Johnny Cash Songs
by Kenda Burrack (2/22/2004)
Duck, Duck, Goose
by Michael Ward (2/22/2004)
Hexadecimal Color Codes in HTML That Look or Sound Dirty, But Are in Fact Merely Colorful
by Angela Genusa (2/22/2004)
Things Editorial Assistants Should Never Say to Senior Editors
by Stephen Karam (2/22/2004)
New Age Statements From Breakdancing: Mr. Fresh and the Supreme Rockers Show You How to Do It! (Avon Books, 1984)
by Brendan Short (2/22/2004)
Possible Good Rock Band Names Inspired by the Korean Central News Agency’s Press Release Entitled “DPRK, Dignified Powerful Nation.”
by Joey Hemmelgarn (2/22/2004)
Major Hollywood Productions that Kill Off the Only, or Only Important, Black Character in the Film
by Cameron D. Holley (2/22/2004)
Reasons You Should Not Place Your Foot onto the Street When a Car Is Coming, Even If You Are Curious About How It Would Feel If a Car Ran over Your Foot
by Jay Wexler (2/22/2004)
New Movie Reviews from Ebert & Roeper
by Steve Caldes (2/22/2004)
Actual Dialogue from Radio Commercials That I’ve Been Asked to Deliver “Believably” As If Normal People Would Say Such Things
by Brian Sack (2/16/2004)
Shakespearean Magnet Poetry and Eighties Hair Bands
by Jennifer Carlson (2/9/2004)
Places I’ve Walked Into with a Confident Swagger Despite Public Warning
by Wells Oliver (2/5/2004)
Who and What Was Most Likely Responsible for the Births of Our Current Democratic Presidential Candidates
by Adam Brown (2/5/2004)
Quotes from Either President of the United States George W. Bush or Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars Movies
by Jason McGregor (2/5/2004)
Seven Vaguely Dickensian Yet Sophomorically Inappropriate Proper Names, Two Legitimate Dickensian Characters, and One U.S. State — Or “The Dickens Cider Bleak House Rules.”
by Ben Skoch (1/28/2004)
Food, Drink, and Condiment Names That May Also Serve as Names of Ecdysiasts and/or Adult Film Stars
by J.D. Lewis (1/28/2004)
My Attempt to Further Depress a Particularly Unfunny List, Sent to Me by Someone at Work, by Making Random Remarks
by Darby Larson (1/20/2004)
Possible Restaurant Names For a Themed Slot-Machine/Race-Car/Tokens-And-Prizes Establishment That Has an Overwhelming Amount of Seafood Dishes On the Menu
by Millie de Chirico (1/15/2004)
Androgynous Names of Former Toronto Blue Jays
by Darryl Humber (1/15/2004)
Ways This Flight Might Yet Be the Death of Me
by Cate Carlson (1/15/2004)
3 People I Was Surprised to Find Mentioned in a Review of J. Papastavridis’ “Analytical Mechanics: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Dynamics of Constrained Systems; for Engineers, Physicists and Mathematicians” in the Bulletin of the American Mathematics
by Charles Ullmann (1/13/2004)
Harry Potter Spell or Psychotropic Medication?
by Terra Morais (1/13/2004)
Lesser-known DC Comics Characters or “As Seen on TV” Products?
by Natalie Dietz (1/13/2004)
College A Capella Groups, Sorted by Major College-Football Rivalries
by Patrick W. Gavin (1/7/2004)
Adjective and Noun Combinations Considered and Then Discarded in Favor of “Black Betty” in the Song “Black Betty,” Which Is Perhaps Better Known as “Whoa! Black Betty! Bam-ba-Lam.”
by Evan Billings (1/4/2004)
Suggested Names for Religious Rap Artists
by Josh Fischel and Michael Ward (12/21/2003)
Working Titles for Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin.”
by Scott Shemo (12/21/2003)
Yakov Smirnoff Joke or Offensive to Russians?
by Scott Tomford (12/15/2003)
Famous Predictions
by Adam Underhill (12/15/2003)
Headlines in the Sports Section of My College Newspaper That Seemed Funny at the Time, But in Retrospect Were Probably Just Unnecessarily Mean-Spirited
by Ilya Abyzov (12/15/2003)
Rejected Titles Suggested by Clay Aiken for Ruben Studdard’s Debut Album
by Robert McEvily (12/8/2003)
Popular Pickup Lines Used by Serial Killers
by Wendy Molyneux (12/8/2003)
Replacing Bunnies With Bastards
by Mark Peters (12/4/2003)
Possible Closing Lines for a Defendant Who Has Chosen to Represent Himself
by Brian Sack (12/4/2003)
Actual Entries from Cab Calloway’s Hepster’s Dictionary, Revised 1939 Edition
by Josh Weintraub (11/21/2003)
Physical Theories as Women
by Simon DeDeo (11/12/2003)
Pillow Talk
by Hari Raghavan (11/12/2003)
People I’d Have Sex with to Avoid “Dialing Down the Middle” with Carrot Top, As Revealed by a Recent Game of “Who Would You Rather Sleep With?”
by Evany Thomas (11/12/2003)
Things You Should Not Substitute for Whipped Cream During Food Sex, Even if You Are Out of Whipped Cream
by Jay Wexler (11/6/2003)
Why Love Is Blind
by Matthew Simmons (11/6/2003)
List of Organizations, People, and Anthropomorphic Endangered Species That, for Funds-Soliciting Purposes, Purchased My Closely Held New Mailing Address from the ACLU, Which I Recently Joined, Ironically, to Support Privacy Rights
by Nicolas Duquette (11/6/2003)
Random Book Dedications Read From the Bargain Bin
by Brandon Rogers (10/31/2003)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Professor or Dr. Pepper Knock-Off Brand?
by Jules Lipoff (10/31/2003)
Jokes I May Have Misremembered
by David Fischer and Shauna McKenna (10/23/2003)
1960s Dance Craze or Kama Sutra Position?
by Rachel Good (10/21/2003)
Things I Told Customers While Working at a Starbucks, in a Mall, in the Baltimore Suburbs
by Stephanie Manuzak (10/21/2003)
Possible Names for a Supergroup Consisting Solely of Jack Black and Jack White
by Scott Sand (10/21/2003)
Dee Snider’s Notes from Workshopping a B-Side to “Stay Hungry.”
by B.R. Cohen (10/10/2003)
Reverse-Chronology Films or Imitation Designer Colognes
by Scott Bailey (10/10/2003)
How One Would Have Seen Various Film Franchises Had They Been Directed By Matthew Barney
by Matt Myers (10/10/2003)
Things for Which I Was Either Reprimanded or Outright Suspended Without Pay When I Was a Teenage Universal Studios Hollywood Tour Guide in the Late Eighties
by Scott Bailey (10/10/2003)
Story Endings O. Henry Didn’t Use
by J.D. Finch (10/10/2003)
Rejected Titles for Hymns
by Mollie Wilson (10/3/2003)
Alphabetical Listing of the Occupations of the People Running for Governor of California (As Listed on the “Official Sample Ballot”)
by Tom O'Connor (10/3/2003)
Geology Terms That Sound Like Names for Small Forest People
by Vance Anderson (10/3/2003)
Geology Terms That Sound Dirty, But Aren’t
by Vance Anderson (10/3/2003)