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2012 Olympic Sports, Ranked by Importance
Hamilton Nolan · 07/25/12 03:25PMCelebrities' Embarrassing Parents: A Compendium
Caity Weaver · 07/06/12 04:05PM5 Shows You Can Expect To See on CainTV
Prachi Gupta · 07/06/12 03:10PM9 Pranks Guaranteed to Get You Laid
Prachi Gupta · 06/23/12 09:12AMFox News Magazine, which launched on Monday, "is the official lifestyle magazine of Fox News" covering, among other things, love, relationships, and style for women. They recently published a piece called, "10 Pranks That Will Spice Up Your Relationship," which, if your relationship isn't spicy enough, you should probably go read right now.
53 Reasons You Should Not Write a Listicle Declaring One Race Superior to All Others
Maureen O'Connor · 05/03/12 01:58PMWho Are the Most Easily Offended People?
Hamilton Nolan · 05/03/12 01:53PMThe internet is a rough and tumble place. To survive here, you must be rough and tough, steady under fire, thick-skinned. That's why most bloggers are known to be dashing but intimidating "tough guy" types, menacing to dudes but irresistible to women. Sadly, not everyone is cut out for this harsh environment.
Some Suggestions for New Pulitzer Prizes
Max Read · 04/16/12 04:28PMDear Pulitzer Prize Committee: what is the point of you? Though we enjoyed this year's editorial-writing and fiction trolling — how very internet of you, Pulitzer Prize Committee — you are still, basically, worthless, and, worse, boring. You need some kind of makeover. You need Ryan Seacrest to host the awards. You need new categories, Pulitzer Prize Committee. We have some suggestions:
The Most and Least Awesome Jobs in America, 2012
Hamilton Nolan · 04/11/12 12:44PMThe 8 Most Interesting Things From Business Insider's Story About the 8 Most Interesting Things From Gawker's Story About The KKK
Maureen O'Connor · 04/03/12 03:05PMAre You a Gay Man? Here Are the Horrifying Ways the Turkish Army Will Ask You to Prove It
Leah Beckmann · 03/27/12 02:58PMMilitary service is compulsory in Turkey, and enlistment is denied to those deemed too sick, disabled, or gay for service. A small pink certificate listing the reason for exemption is issued; if you are gay, the certificate will read, ''psychosexual disorder'' and ''homosexuality" in brackets next to that.
Jessica Simpson Would Like You to Know She's Pregnant, Horny, and Full of Amniotic Fluid
Leah Beckmann · 03/20/12 10:57AMJessica Simpson just loves being pregnant. She loves reveling in her womanly figure, predicting her future daughter's fashion sense, celebrating with big belly photo shoots, and indulging in those whacky cravings. But the thing that Jessica Simpson seems to love most of all? Discussing how being pregnant has turned her into a "fire hydrant" fart monster.
From Rainbow Parties to Butt-Chugging: A Timeline of Moral Panics in the Last Decade
Max Read · 03/15/12 09:11AM12 Handcrafted Penis Gifts You Can Find On Etsy
Leah Beckmann · 03/06/12 10:00AM10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Leap Day
Max Read · 02/29/12 01:12PMJohn Fairfax Loved Hookers: Ten 'Juicy' Stories Omitted From His NYT Obit
Leah Beckmann · 02/20/12 06:38PMThe Seven Best Lines From 'Professional Adventurer' John Fairfax's Crazy Obit
Leah Beckmann · 02/19/12 05:57PMAll 47 Sports and Fitness Activities, Ranked
Hamilton Nolan · 02/08/12 04:10PMIn this world, there are many ways to exercise. Some are actual sports; others are specific types of exercise; all will make you sweat, somehow. We have ranked them in scientific order, based on the following criteria: Physical Difficulty; Amount That You Would Be Humiliated If You Tried to Just Waltz In and Do Them Like Some Big Shot Because You Thought They Would Be Easy; and Overall Hardcoreness. Fake bullshit sports are not included. All rankings are final.
How to Fart In Front of Your New Significant Other
Leah Beckmann · 02/01/12 05:10PMWell so, if you couldn't tell I went to summer camp. It is my favorite place in the world because that is where I met all my favorite people in the world. More than that though, most of the things I hold to be true in this world, I learned from my camp friends. And one of those is the Muffled Tailpipe.
All the Year-End Listicles We Didn't Get Around to Writing in 2011
Maureen O'Connor · 12/30/11 01:45PMThe year-end listicle is a stressful affair. It's important: You are defining a moment in history. It's hard: You have to remember stuff that happened twelve whole months ago, which is multiple millennia in internet years. Finally, it has a strict deadline: If you procrastinate, then the work you've done will be rendered completely irrelevant at the stroke of midnight on January 1st.