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The Least Believable Things I Can Reach With a Cane While Sitting at My Computer
by Francis Heaney (10/26/2000)

Flavors That I Would Imagine the Forehead of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Tastes Like
by Michael Genrich (10/25/2000)

Searching for Orthographical Consensus by Counting Search Results on Google.com, Part One: The Leader of Libya
by Kevin Shay (10/24/2000)

Slogans of Not-So-Prestigious Schools
by Jeff Johnson (10/23/2000)

Bad Things That Will Happen When You Masturbate
by Kevin Sampsell (10/20/2000)

VH-1’s Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll, Adjusted for Not Sucking by Dan, a Viacom Intern, With Minimal Input From Dan’s Older Brother Jim, Whose Girlfriend Just Broke Up With Him Over the Phone
by Kevin Guilfoile (10/19/2000)

Personal Fashion Mistakes
by Mike Topp (10/18/2000)

Steps in the Creation of a List
by Francis Heaney (10/17/2000)

Future Computer Viruses Named After the Subject Headers of the Emails in Which They Are Propagated
by Bryan Charles (10/16/2000)

Lines of Dialogue From a Japanese Fansite’s Transcription of Full House Episodes
by Chris Smith (10/13/2000)

Questions I Was Asked in Japan
by Ashley Alsup (10/12/2000)

A list of hit tracks by my 11-year-old sister Ruth, whose knowledge of metal and glam rock stems entirely from the cover of a “Nelson and Nelson Smokin’ Guitar Licks” video we saw at the music store, but who, nevertheless, calling herself "The Blast Off!,
by Leif Larsen and Ruth Larsen (10/10/2000)

Terrible Names for Hair Salons
by John Moe (10/10/2000)

Things I Would Often Think About While at Church
by Kevin Sampsell (10/9/2000)

Defunct Youth Group Metal Bands
by Chadd S. Johnson (10/6/2000)

Rejected Pictures For Commemorative New York Subway Fare Cards
by Dan Kennedy (10/4/2000)

Preliminary Results of the Human Genome Project: A Scientific Paper in Two Parts
by Ian LeBon (10/3/2000)

List of Ideas for Ideas for Lists
by Bill Wasik (10/3/2000)

Sixteen Phrases That You Won’t Find in Peru, in Any Language
by Jill D. Lawley (10/2/2000)

Some Plot Summaries of Daytime Television Reruns, as Listed in the Raleigh, NC, News & Observer, During a Single Week This Past Summer
by Jennifer Boyer (9/29/2000)

Ineffective Lines Deleted From Final Revisions of Violent Box-Office Hits
by Dan Kennedy (9/28/2000)

Things I Did Today Which Possibly Indicate Neurosis
by Andrew Wheeler (9/25/2000)

Suggested Band Names
by John Kenyon (9/25/2000)

Authors Whose Names You Can Say While Chewing Gum
by Paul Bacon (9/25/2000)

Failed Palindromes
by Chris Miller (9/22/2000)

The Only Thoughts I Remember Crossing My Mind Today, Part 2
by Dan Kennedy (9/21/2000)

Poor Names For An Earth, Wind, And Fire Cover Band
by Michael Genrich (9/20/2000)

Lesser-Known Facts, Democratic Party Edition
by John Warner (9/19/2000)

Fall Hunting Dates for North Dakota
by Kate E. Gambs (9/18/2000)

Twenty-Eight Real Animals Named After Other Animals
by Ed Page (9/3/2000)

A Judgment of My Performance
by Megan Briscoe (3/13/2000)

Your eBay Friends and Neighbors
by Monique Dufour (3/13/2000)

Ten As-Yet-Unwritten Articles About Cheese
by Jason McKnight (3/13/2000)

13 Fraudulent Martyrs
by Tom Nissley (3/13/2000)

The Only Thoughts I Remember Crossing My Mind Today
by Dan Kennedy (2/23/2000)

Real Notes Scribbled In Books Still On The Shelves At Borders Books and Music
by Bob Sassone (2/23/2000)

Best and Worst Teams in Seattle’s Weeknight Co-Rec Soccer League (Divisions 9A-9F)
by Michael Murphy (2/23/2000)

Eric’s Top Ten Movies of 1999
by Eric McHenry (2/23/2000)

Ways To Offer Coffee Refills at a Diner (If You are Working at the Diner)
by Adam McGill (2/14/2000)

Bad Names for Hamsters
by Diana Fischer (2/14/2000)

Good Names for Hamsters
by Diana Fischer (2/14/2000)

3 Little Things I Regret Having Said
by Dan Kennedy (2/14/2000)

Freudian Blender Settings
by William Novim (1/31/2000)

Lists Involving Christ, Christian Names, and Peace of Mind
by Jesse Lichtenstein (1/31/2000)

Tossed, Hurled, Thrown
by Jesse Lichtenstein (1/31/2000)

If Medical Conditions Were Like Masterpiece Theater and Sporting Venues
by T.G. Gibbon (1/31/2000)

The Blots vs. The Sharks: The Blots’ Playbook
by Matthew Summers-Sparks (1/31/2000)

The Past Ten Business Days
by Ryan Purdy (1/31/2000)

Dreams, By Proximity to Reality
by Mike Chamberlain (1/31/2000)

Several Phrases That Have Never Been Uttered in Human History
by Marshall Sella (1/24/2000)

The Contrarian’s Alternate History of Popular Music: The Top 100
by Jim Ridley (1/24/2000)

Ulriches Past, Present, and Future
by Keith Crouse (1/24/2000)

Speculative Titles of Future Thrillers by James Patterson
by Matt Sullivan (1/21/2000)

23 Websites You Might Be Very Disappointed to Hear Are Already Registered, and One You Might Be Surprised to Discover Is Still Available
by Jeff Boison (1/21/2000)

Not-Good Titles for Romantic Films
by Tim Blair (1/21/2000)

Percentages of Internet Users Genuinely Engaged in the Action in Column “A” While Typing the Abbreviation in Column “B.”
by Kevin Shay (1/17/2000)

Words from a Magnetic Poetry Set
by Andre Theisen (1/17/2000)

Six Rejected Pseudonyms for Allen T. Loffman
by Joshua Steichman (1/17/2000)

Six Possible Pseudonyms for Allen T. Loffman
by Joshua Steichman (1/17/2000)

Possible Winning Solutions to the Board Game “Clue” if the Characters were Replaced with Right-Leaning Political Pundits, the Weapons Replaced with Logical Fallacies, and the Rooms Replaced with Either Jung’s “Psychic Containers” or Varieties of Soft Chee
by John Warner (1/17/2000)

1999: 10 Dates to Remember
by Darnell Lye (1/17/2000)

Awful Sports
by Eric McHenry (1/10/2000)

Terms That Corporate America Should Consider Using in Place of “Going Forward.”
by Kevin Shay (1/10/2000)

Eventual Everything: 65 Selected Pairs of Guide Words from the McGraw-Hill School Dictionary, 1998 Edition
by Joy Nolan (1/10/2000)

Boring Scores, in Alphabetical Order by Sport
by Michael Mannella (1/4/2000)

Actual List of Claimants to the Title of Inventor of the Ice Cream Cone
by Barry Popik and Paul Dickson (12/13/1999)

Bad Names for Action Movies
by Peter Schooff (12/9/1999)

20 Irritating Titles
by Joy Nolan (12/9/1999)

Quasimodo’s “To-Do” List for Nov. 15, 1482
by Oscar Martinez (12/9/1999)

Bad Names For Professional Wrestlers: The Next Generation
by Jeff Johnson (11/16/1999)

Bad Names for Professional Wrestlers
by Jeff Johnson (11/3/1999)

Appropriate Names for Pets
by Chadd S. Johnson (10/27/1999)

Less Popular Bars
by Stuart Wade (10/20/1999)

Oh, The Times We Had
by Paul Tough and Stephen Sherrill (9/20/1999)

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