Got quite bored today, so here are some cut-out-and-keep lists for every occasion:
Bands whose names make use of the exclamation mark: -Panic! At the Disco
Wham!
3OH!3
The Go! Team
P!nk (although obviously she's a solo artist, not a band)
!!!
¡Forward, Russia!
godspeed you! black emperor
Hadouken!
Los Campesinos!
Sash! (also a solo artist)
Classic Christmas singles that reached Number 2 in the UK singles chart: -
"Wombling Merry Christmas" by The Wombles
"I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon
"Last Christmas" by Wham!
"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues
"All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey
"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness
"21st Century Christmas" by Cliff Richard
Male singers with interesting names: -
Paolo Nutini
Luciano Pavarotti
Taio Cruz
Engelbert Humperdinck
Sufjan Stevens
José González
Ray Lamontagne
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Male singers with truly dull names: -
Michael Jackson
James Brown
James Morrison
Chris Brown
Jack Johnson
Tom Jones
George Harrison
UK Number One songs by The Beatles that didn't really have intros: -
"She Loves You"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
"Help!"
"We Can Work It Out"
"Yellow Submarine"
"Hello Goodbye"
"Hey Jude"
21st Century songs with truly dull lyrics: -
"America" by Razorlight
e.g. "What a drag it is, the shape I'm in, Well I go out somewhere, then I come home again"
"Dakota" by Stereophonics e.g. "Summertime, Think it was June; Yeah, think it was June"
"Life for Rent" by Dido e.g. "I've always thought that I would love to live by the sea, To travel the world alone and live more simply, I have no idea what's happened to that dream, Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me"
"Turn It Back" by GoodBooks e.g. "I have a fear of flying, Though I've jumped from the sky, And I wake up falling, But in this dream I die"
"Fix You" by Coldplay e.g. "When you try your best but you don't suceed, When you get what you want but not what you..."
"Enjoying Myself" by 1990s e.g. "Some people ask am I enjoying myself, I say: 'I haven't decided yet, I'm just enjoying myself'"
"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM
Seven-letter words where the letters appear in alphabetical order: -
Beefily
Billowy
34-letter words: -
Antidisestablishmentarianistically
Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
(NB. The Oxford English Dictionary does not recognise any of the above as 'proper' words)
Words beginning with P that have no vowels: -
Pry
Pyx
Words that are spelt using the letters T, S, P and O: -
Opts
Post
Pots
Spot
Stop
Tops
Some things that are great about France and/or the French: -
Their uplifting national anthem
Their language
Their electronica/dance duos (e.g. Daft Punk, Justice, Air, Modjo, etc.)
The Eiffel Tower
Disneyland Paris
The French Horn
Boursin cheese
The Louvre
It's close enough to the UK that you don't have to spend that much to get there
Social networking sites that never really took off: -
Friendster.com
hi5.com
XuQa.com
WAYN.com
Facebox.com
Dailybooth.com
Male celebrities with facial hair whose initials are DB: -
David Baddiel
David Beckham (sometimes he has it; sometime he doesn't)
Daniel Bedingfield
David Blaine
David Blunkett
David Brent (all right, he's fictional)
Derren Brown
Male celebrities without facial hair whose initials are DB: -
Danny Baker
Duncan Bannatyne
David Bailey
Derek Bailey
David Beckham (sometimes he has it; sometime he doesn't)
Danny Boyle
Ways to tell if someone is a nerd just by looking at them: -
Head hanging down
Dressed entirely in dark colours (e.g. black, murky green, dark grey, etc.)
No apparent sense of fashion
Greasy or unmanageable hair
Terrible acne!
Untalkative
Sweating profusely
Wearing a very large and heavy coat, even in the warmest of weathers
Wearing trousers that are two inches too short
Very nervous around any member of the opposite sex
Walking unsociably quickly, or depressingly slowly
Male
Numbers that are quite funny: -
3
42
1000 (e.g. "She hates him with the fire of a thousand suns!" or "I'll die a thousand deaths before I fail you!")
5318008
Names of some of the algorithms used to complete the Rubik's Cube: -
"The H"
"The Fish"
"The Double H"
Seasons of Friends that ended with weddings: -
Season two (Barry and Mindy)
Season four (Ross and Emily)
Season five (Ross and Rachel)
Season seven (Chandler and Monica)
Sports that shouldn't really qualify as sports: -
Darts
Angling
Dressage
Tiddlywinks
Boules
Racewalking
Curling
Rifle shooting (but don't tell 'em that!)
Famous sentient cars: -
Brum
The cars from Cars
Christine
Gladys Crabtree from My Mother the Car
Herbie, the Love Bug
Kitt from Knight Rider
Famous rabbits: -
Bugs Bunny
The Easter bunny
Peter Rabbit
Fiver (plus everyone else from Watership Down)
Harvey
Frank from Donnie Darko
Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh
Roger Rabbit
The Energizer bunny
The Raving Rabbids from Rayman
The Nesquik bunny
The overly-sexualised Cadbudy's Caramel bunny
Famous male duos whose names begin with J and E: -
Jacob and Esau (from The Bible)
Jacob and Edward (from the Twilight series)
John and Edward (Jedward)
(NB. All we need is a duo named "John and Esau", and it'll come full circle.)
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the UK is mainly characterised: -
Hanging out with your mates
Having a job (either part-time or full-time)
AS-Level coursework
Driving lessons
Feeling bored and/or fed-up
Masturbation
Facebook
Introspection and self-discovery
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the Skins universe is mainly characterised: -
Sex
Drugs
Trashing houses
Tai Chi (?!)
Sex
Altercations with gangsters
Looking like a Topshop mannequin
Murder
SEX
Things by which entertainment from the noughties will be probably characterised: -
80s remakes
Reality TV
Talent shows
User-generated content
Things by which this year will probably be characterised: -
Bigoted women
BP oil
Cupcakes
Glee
Nick Clegg
Pitbull
Putting cats in bins
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Volcanic ash
Vuvuzelas
Things about which I would've written this blog instead if only I had the nerve: -
Lost in Translation
Mr Jones' Rules by Dylan Jones
Muse
Romeo & Juliet
Scrubs
Seth MacFarlane's abilities as a comedic writer
"Imagine" by John Lennon
Lists in this blog post: -
Bands whose names make use of the exclamation mark
Classic Christmas singles that reached Number 2 in the UK singles chart
Male singers with interesting names
Male singers with truly dull names
UK Number One songs by The Beatles that didn't really have intros
21st Century songs with truly dull lyrics
Seven-letter words where the letters appear in alphabetical order
34-letter words
Words beginning with P that have no vowels
Words that are spelt using the letters T, S, P and O
Some things that are great about France and/or the French
Social networking sites that never really took off
Male celebrities with facial hair whose initials are DB
Male celebrities without facial hair whose initials are DB
Ways to tell if someone is a nerd just by looking at them
Numbers that are quite funny
Names of some of the algorithms used to complete the Rubik's Cube
Seasons of Friends that ended with weddings
Sports that shouldn't really qualify as sports
Famous sentient cars
Famous rabbits
Famous male duos whose names begin with J and E
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the UK is mainly characterised
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the Skins universe is mainly characterised
Things by which entertainment from the noughties will be probably characterised
Things by which this year will probably be characterised
Things about which I would've written this blog instead if only I had the nerve
Lists in this blog
Lists in this blog that don't contain themselves
Lists in this blog post that don't contain themselves: -
Bands whose names make use of the exclamation mark
Classic Christmas singles that reached Number 2 in the UK singles chart
Male singers with interesting names
Male singers with truly dull names
UK Number One songs by The Beatles that didn't really have intros
21st Century songs with truly dull lyrics
Seven-letter words where the letters appear in alphabetical order
34-letter words
Words beginning with P that have no vowels
Words that are spelt using the letters T, S, P and O
Some things that are great about France and/or the French
Social networking sites that never really took off
Male celebrities with facial hair whose initials are DB
Male celebrities without facial hair whose initials are DB
Ways to tell if someone is a nerd just by looking at them
Numbers that are quite funny
Names of some of the algorithms used to complete the Rubik's Cube
Seasons of Friends that ended with weddings
Sports that shouldn't really qualify as sports
Famous sentient cars
Famous rabbits
Famous male duos whose names begin with J and E
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the UK is mainly characterised
Things by which the life of a 17-year-old in the Skins universe is mainly characterised
Things by which entertainment from the noughties will be probably characterised
Things by which this year will probably be characterised
Things about which I would've written this blog instead if only I had the nerve
Lists in this blog that don't contain themselves (?)
