It’s that time of year, youngsters. Time to haul out a bazillion Top Ten Lists, because for reasons undiscernable to the wisest interweb sages, the end of the year demands we write lots of pointless Top Ten Lists. They’re like award shows: everybody’s having one. It makes us feel important, even if we have no qualifications giving us any sort of credibility whatsoever. As I love a list, I have jumped on this bandwagon gleefully and with gusto. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I give you….
2014 Top Ten List: The Top Ten Things Created by the Hand of Man
Note to newer readers: the number ten is more of a suggestion than a fixed amount. In no particular order (this is more of a pile than a list):
Indoor plumbing
Starry Night
(Both the painting and the song)
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” -Vincent van Gogh
Mozart’s Requiem
Perdomo Habano Cigars
Starbuck’s Salted Caramel Mocha
The stapler
“Excuse me. I believe you have my stapler.” -Milton Waddams
Falling Water
Great Lash Mascara
The Pieta
“Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.” -Michelangelo
The cast iron skillet
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Football
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humour? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it’s funny. Don’t you think it’s odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?
Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
Calvin: (after a long pause) I can’t tell if that’s funny or really scary.
My boyfriend and I are having a running argument that #1 is the Hammond B-3 organ or the Browning Ma Deuce .50 caliber machine gun.
Your suggestions are most welcome, but I ain’t including the iphone; I’m an android girl.