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From the ones you already know to the truly bizarre ones you’ve never heard of, here are the Top 10 New Year’s Traditions and Superstitions in the United States.
10. Fireworks
Fireworks, cheering, singing and noisemakers on New Year’s Eve are believed to scare away evil spirits. Do we really need an excuse to set off fireworks? [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 11:16 am
Filed under All, History, Holidays, Misc · Tagged with America, Bizarre, Cabbage, celebration, clock strikes midnight, evil spirits, Fireworks, getting out of debt, guilt, IRS, kiss, Music, new year, new years, noisemakers, resolutions
Every new year brings about a thoughtful look at the past. And what better way to gain more insight or guilt than to have a few quotes to increase your wisdom for this coming year. So read on and find out what a few bright minds thought about beginning a new year. Here are the [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 2:04 am
Filed under All, Humor, Misc, People · Tagged with alcohol, America, celebration, criminals, diet, Disney, drunk, Fireworks, Gun, Health, Holidays, Independence, kiss, Mom, mystery, new years, night, quotes, resolutions, sky, stars, tradition, Universe
Injuries in sports are nothing to laugh about. Normally. Sometimes, however, athletes just do something on or off the field that is so unusual, so hard to believe, that you can’t help but laugh. Here’s our picks for the 10 dumbest sports injuries of all time.
10. Sammy Sosa
Sosa’s one of the top home run hitters [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Filed under Humor, Sports · Tagged with baseball, basketball, Bill Gramatica, Bizarre, Boston, chicago cubs, football, funny, Games, golf, gus frerotte, hockey, Humor, Joel Zumaya?m injury, ken griffey jr, kevin johnson, kevin mitchell, nfl, paulo diogo, referee, sammy sosa, soccer, sport, Sports, sports injury, tony allen, vince coleman
With so many Christmas movies out there, it’s hard to pick our favorites. On the other hand, it’s pretty easy to pick the stinkers. Here you will find our list of the top ten worst movie Santas. You may agree, you may disagree. I might get an angry letter from Billy Bob Thornton or Martin [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Filed under All, Holidays, Movies · Tagged with bad santa, Billy Bob Thornton, Christmas, christmas movie, christmas movies, christmas story, Controversial, drunk santa, Movies, Naughty, north pole, Ralphie, Santa, Santa Claus, santa clause 3, scott calvin
I used to have one of the items on this list painted on my bass guitar case – a gift from an exboyfriend. I confess this to prevent readers from getting their cartoon boxers in a knot as they try to justify how classy they really are.
10. Trucker Style Accessories
First let me point out that [...]
Posted by Tanya Bennett on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 12:01 am
Filed under All, Holidays, Humor, Shopping · Tagged with beer, beer mugs, belt buckle, Christmas, christmas eve, christmas gifts, corn chips, cowboy hat, exotic dancer, funny, gifts, girls, guitar, hank williams, hats, madonna, mud flap girls, Playboy, Santa, Shopping, Simpsons, toys, trucker hat, tv
A few months ago we did a list of the top 10 most beautiful eyes featuring women, so it is only fair that we do a similar list for ladies. Take a look at this list showing off some very famous peepers. Here are the sexiest male eyes.
10. Paul Walker
Look Past The Eyes:
Paul started his [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Filed under People, Sex · Tagged with 100 sexiest men, Actor, beautiful eyes, buffy the vampire slayer, chick flick, cillian murphy, eyes, Hugh Laurie, Jared Leto, Johnny Depp, Josh Hartnett, Movies, Paul Newman, Richard Gere, Sex, sexy eyes, star, top 100 sexiest men, tupac shakur, wentworth miller
I’ve indicated typical uses for most of the herbs below but here’s a summary of why these are the top 10.
Our Plangarden users often ask for advice regarding which herbs to grow. Our top 10 list includes those most popular and palatable in Western dishes – though we’re sure there will be some contention [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Filed under Quick Lists · Tagged with basil, chives, Christmas, garlic, ginger, gourmet kitchen, herbs, herbs and spices, herbs spices, marjoram, oregano, parsley, poultry dishes, rosemary, sage, spice, tarragon, thyme, tomato sauce, top 10 herbs
Christmastime is here. We all have our own holiday traditions – in my family we watch a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve and stuff our faces. Your family might do something different. Shoot, you might even be from another country, where there are what seem (to us) like some pretty wacky traditions. Some you might [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 1:03 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Holidays · Tagged with auk, Bizarre, brooms, Caga Tio, chimney, Christmas, christmas eve, christmas holiday, christmas movie, christmas tradition, christmastime, evil spirits, holiday traditions, Holidays, Kallikantzaroi, kiviak, Mari Lwyd, monkey, pudding, Santa, Santa Claus, seal skin, star, witches
They had it all…beauty, fame, talent…but Fate was not kind. Through their own self-destructive tendencies, or simply cruel luck, they ended up as fallen angels, part of Hollywood’s dark legend.
10. Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was one of Hollywood’s quintessential blonde bombshells: her hourglass figure and platinum hair were her main selling points, despite a genius-level I.Q. [...]
Posted by Heather Matthews on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Filed under All, People, Sex · Tagged with alfred hitchcock, anton levey, Bizarre, blonde bombshell, blondes, Bob Crane, Bob Hope, Britney, britney spears, celebrity, Courtney Love, Disney, Elvis, Elvis Presley, heroin, Hitchcock, homosexual, Jayne Mansfield, Joaquin, Joaquin Pheonix, Johnny Depp, Justin, Justin Timberlake, Kennedy, Keven Federline, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe, mariska hargitay, Michael Jackson, Mickey, Music, olivia benson, Playboy, playboy bunny, River Pheonix, river phoenix, Sex, sophia loren, Television, train wrecks
With Christmas movies, such as “Scrooged” (or any other “Christmas Carol” knockoff) and even “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” they follow the same tired cliché – man loses something of value, realizes the Christmas spirit and then all is well with the world. To paraphrase Scrooge – humbug!
There are too many of these delightfully sappy movies [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 2:26 am
Filed under All, Holidays, Humor, Movies, Television · Tagged with Batman, Billy Bob Thornton, black comedy, Christmas, christmas movie, christmas movies, christmas season, christmas vacation, eight crazy nights, halloween, jack skellington, jamie lee curtis, John Cusack, kiss, Merry Christmas, Michael Keaton, movie, Movies, nightmare before christmas, Santa, scrooged, tim burton, villains