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Thoughts I’ve Had While Watching Intervention That Could Possibly Be Red Flagsby Walter Carson (2/12/2009)
Fortune-Cookie Messages Appropriate for Dickens Characters
by Julia McCloy and Travis Tyler (2/5/2009)
Legacies of Other Bush Administrations
by Charlie Hopper (2/5/2009)
The Real Housewives of Hazzard County
by Wendi Aarons (2/5/2009)
Failed Food Cross-Promotions of the 1970s and Their Taglines
by Eric Feezell and Gladstone (1/29/2009)
Rockinest Weather Forecasts by Decade
by Luke O'Neil (1/29/2009)
Why I’ll Never Make It as a Standup Comedian
by Ed Murray (1/29/2009)
Secure Website Authentification Questions
by Joel Gunz (1/8/2009)
Mysterious Ways in Which the Lord Works
by JT Dobbs (1/8/2009)
Radiohead at the Culinary Institute
by Jimmy Chen (1/8/2009)
Unpromising Apartment-Ad Teasers Actually Found on Craigslist That Would Make Even Less Promising Personal-Ad Teasers
by Eric Feezell (12/19/2008)
Economic Concepts That Apply to My Love Life
by Jeff Bladt (12/19/2008)
Several Mutations Thwarted by Natural Selection
by Pete Reynolds (12/19/2008)
Broadway Musicals Written by Gender-Studies Professors
by Sascha Cohen (12/19/2008)
More-Realistic Names for Chex Party Mix (Based on My Personal Experience)
by Peter Bartlett (12/5/2008)
What Could Have Been
by Colin Perkins (12/5/2008)
Evidence That Automakers Predicted Senate Hearings but Not the Outcome of the 2008 Presidential Election
by Elizabeth Worthington (12/5/2008)
Self-Analysis of Last Week’s Dreams
by John Bobey (11/13/2008)
Reasons You Might Die of Consumption in a 19th-Century Novel, in Order From Least Likely to Most Likely
by Arielle Zibrak (11/13/2008)
Modesty Plates
by Lucas Klauss (11/13/2008)
New Anxiety Medications for Coping With Economic Gloom
by Peter Scallion (10/31/2008)
Famous Lines From ’80s Anthems Adjusted for the Cost of Living
by Gabrielle Wootton (10/31/2008)
Tenth-Graders’ Favorite Suggestive Terms From Geometry
by Mark Amundsen (10/22/2008)
STD Medication or Character From The NeverEnding Story?
by Sam O'Brien (10/22/2008)
Things That Sound Like the FedEx Truck Delivering the Job-Offer Letter That Will End My Employment Drought
by Kathy Tempesta (10/22/2008)
Parade Magazine’s “What People Earn”: Grimms’ Fairy Tale Edition
by Lance Waller (10/1/2008)
Starting Lineup for the Fantasy Football Team “Last of the Mohicans.”
by Joseph S. Dubroff (10/1/2008)
Things Not to Tell Fellow Construction Workers When You’re the New Guy
by Zach Fox (10/1/2008)
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in My Spam Box
by Spencer Green (9/11/2008)
Dance Dance Revolution
by Matthew Bonnano (9/11/2008)
New Texting Acronyms for the Elderly
by Tominda Adkins (9/11/2008)
Three Things I’d Take to a Desert Island
by Mike Sacks (8/28/2008)
Jokes I Came Up With While Recovering From Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
by Olivia Walch (8/28/2008)
Footnotes, Endnotes, and Parentheticals That Cost Me Marks on My Thesis
by Mike Baylis (8/28/2008)
T-Shirts My Ex-Boyfriends Would Wear in a More Honest World
by Laura Registrato (8/21/2008)
Planned Sequels to Nicolas Cage’s Upcoming Film Bangkok Dangerous
by Benjamin Sarlin (8/21/2008)
Jane Austen Tries Her Hand at Advertising
by Halli Melnitsky (7/31/2008)
Kama Suture Techniques
by Sara Kinninmont (7/31/2008)
Parks for English Majors
by Andrew Bridgman (7/31/2008)
New York’s Best Child Doctors
by Lucas Klauss (7/17/2008)
I Think My Soulmate Has Done Hard Time,
by Jerry Renek, John Garside, Keith Landeau and Marty Shields (7/17/2008)
Pickup Lines to Use While Moving
by Alison Rosen (6/27/2008)
Existential Travel Guides
by Kevin Ueda (6/27/2008)
Phrases I’d Rather Not Be Used at My Funeral
by Harry Burt (6/27/2008)
Neil Diamond’s Shilo: Girl, Dog, or Demon?
by Ann Tweedy (6/20/2008)
Table Names at Our Wedding If We Were Truthful
by Harris Bloom (6/20/2008)
All the Words
by Nicole Cliffe (6/20/2008)
Top Searches on Gogol.com
by Teddy Wayne (6/4/2008)
Reasons Why Your Retired Derby-Winning Stallion Isn’t Siring
by Marco Kaye (6/4/2008)
The Final Standings in a Contest to Create an Emoticon for the Most Seemingly Impossible to Depict State of Being
by Adam Quesnell (6/4/2008)
Selected Minutes From Lolcat City Council Meetings
by Chris Steck (5/20/2008)
30 Rocks
by Rachel Andelman (5/20/2008)
Performance-Review Phrases I Don’t Want to Hear on Judgment Day
by Sarah Effird (5/20/2008)
Intolerable Acts
by Mark Amundsen (5/14/2008)
Jobs That Have Salaries Arguably Incommensurate With the Work They Entail
by Eric Feezell (5/14/2008)
Actual Hummer Dealerships
by Andrew Brandon (5/8/2008)
Lee Marvin’s Blender Settings
by Jim Cowles (5/8/2008)
Less Popular Alternatives to First-Person Shooters
by Philip Apps (5/8/2008)
Court Cases With Which I Am Familiar
by Hudson Hongo (5/8/2008)
What My Dad Is Talking About When He Yells “That’s What I’m Talking ’Bout.”
by Julia McCloy (4/24/2008)
Categories I’d Be Sure to Win In on the Show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
by Mandy Schick (4/24/2008)
Sex Practices of the Freelance Writer
by Iris Smyles (4/24/2008)
Signs Your Work Environment Is Actually Van Halen Circa 1984
by Ryan Boudinot (4/19/2008)
Alternatives to Setting Your House on Fire to Avoid Foreclosure
by Melanie Berliet (4/16/2008)
If Horton Lived in My Neighborhood
by Wendi Aarons (4/16/2008)
Classes My Top-Tier Law School Should Have Offered as Warnings About the Profession
by E. Noakes (4/16/2008)
Uncircumcised Men Speak About Their Foreskins
by Jimmy Chen (4/10/2008)
All Tomorrow’s Pills
by Dan Kennedy (4/10/2008)
Relationship Advice I Might Give, Considering How My Last One Ended
by Allison Morrow (4/3/2008)
Easy-Listening Songs From the ’70s, Rewritten by the Artists After They Had Kids
by Suzanne Broughton (4/3/2008)
Porn for Depressives
by Carmen Nobel (4/3/2008)
Titles of Love Songs I Would Write for People Like Me
by Kathy Salerno (3/26/2008)
Text Messages That Would Have Been Helpful
by Jen Statsky (3/20/2008)
American Gladiator or American Car Model?
by Sarah Spooner (3/20/2008)
Brews to Accessorize the Modern Hipster
by Kevin Scheitrum (3/19/2008)
Unremarkable Things Bent by Uri Geller
by Tyler Stoddard Smith (3/19/2008)
A Comprehensive List of Third-Place Finishers for U.S. President, 2008–2036
by David Warnke (3/6/2008)
An Accidental Merging of the 2007 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 With the Operating Report From My Bowel Resection
by Greta Boesel (2/28/2008)
A Picnic Date Ending in an Awkward Sexual Encounter, Told Chronologically Through Board-Game Titles
by Jeff Russell (2/28/2008)
Cowboy Deaths, in Descending Order of Degree of Dignity
by Nathan Thornton (2/28/2008)
Unfortunate “That’s What She Said” Precursors in Casual Sports
by David Henne (2/21/2008)
Significant Ways I Differ From Carly Simon
by Mark Amundsen (2/21/2008)
The Seven Laws of Higher Self-Esteem
by Wynn Quon (2/21/2008)
Recipes for Disaster
by Jennifer Miller (2/8/2008)
Other Things There Will Be, in Addition to Blood
by Meredith Rodkey and Scott Rodkey (2/7/2008)
The 21st-Century Adventures of Tintin
by Neil Graf (2/7/2008)
NFL Players Whose Names Sound Vaguely Dickensian, and the Characters They Would Be in an Actual Dickens Novel (2007–2008 Regular Season Edition)
by Susan Schorn (2/1/2008)
Times You’re a Lady
by Jessica Clary (2/1/2008)
What Pathologists Might Name Their Daughters
by Brett Ortler (2/1/2008)
The Oldest Tricks in the Book
by Neil Reynolds (1/24/2008)
If Allen Ginsberg Had Written Pay-Per-Click Ads
by Russell Bradbury-Carlin (1/24/2008)
Rejected Introductions to Days of Our Lives
by Andy Friedhof (1/24/2008)
A Brief History of the War on Terror as Told Through Song Titles of the Legendary Canadian Rock Group April Wine
by Caley Feldman (1/17/2008)
Alternate Titles for It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
by Julia McCloy (1/17/2008)
Top Ten Best Ever
by Peter Ferland (1/10/2008)
Art Movements Inspired by 2008 Presidential Hopefuls
by Eric Feezell (1/10/2008)
The Wages of Sin
by David W. McCoy (1/10/2008)
Correspondences Between TV Characters and Sets Containing a Specified Number of Items
by Jay Wexler (12/19/2007)
Band Names That, When Announced From the Stage, Elicit the Most-Tepid Responses
by Christian Harris and Melanie Minzes (12/19/2007)
“Clue” Accusations, 2012
by David Hart (12/19/2007)