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5. Lots going on (e.g. holiday church services)
4. Spending lots of time with family (e.g. baking cookies)
3. Friends are in town (e.g. CapitalSports)
2. I’m about to go to a Christmas party at my wonderful and beautiful girlfriend’s house
1. It’s Christmas Eve! I’m relaxin’, not writing! Happy holidays!
~raptor
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The best Weezer music is some of the best music you’ll find. Unfortunately, the band has a lot of filler too. Their spottiness is frustrating. I feel like I’m doomed to buy each one of their albums only to write a mixed review of it. Who knows, maybe they’ll release another classic some day.
Here is my attempt at a countdown ranking of their six albums, starting with the worst and ending with the best. I’ve listened to each one of these albums many times through.
If you’re interested, you might also want to check out my ranking of their twenty-five greatest songs.
Anyways, here we go:
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The Jewish Festival of Lights is upon us! While I do not celebrate the holiday, I wish a most blessed one for everyone who does.
Here is special list to celebrate! It’s also a very practical lists. After all, I’m sure you’ve seen Hanukkah spelled a bunch of different ways at different times. Things that often vary: # of k’s, presence of ‘C’ at beginning, presence of ‘H’ at the end, etc. I was considering using google as a tool to find the best ways to spell it, but fortunately, someone already has done it for me!
Over at Joe Maller.com, the different spellings have been tracked and ranked in terms of popularity on the Internet. Not an official bit of research, but I’m not sure how you’re going to get a better answer short of straight up polling everyone in America.
Keep in mind that this is only American spellings of the holiday, I think. The original Hebrew spelling is the “official” way to spell it, and it never varies.
Here are the top sixteen, and their number of hits on google:
- Hanukkah : 11,300,000 hits.
- Chanukah : 2,930,000 hits.
- Hannukah : 867,000 hits.
- Hanukah : 556,000 hits.
- Hanuka : 357,000 hits.
- Chanukkah : 231,000 hits.
- Chanuka : 293,000 hits.
- Channukah : 131,000 hits.
- Chanukka : 108,000 hits.
- Hannukkah : 54,700 hits.
- Januka : 33,700 hits.
- Hanukka : 31,400 hits.
- Channuka : 14,700 hits.
- Hannuka : 12,500 hits.
- Hannukka : 7,870 hits.
- Channukkah : 6,050 hits.
- Xanuka : 2,520 hits.
- Channukka : 2,040 hits.
- Janukah : 394 hits.
- Janukkah : 215 hits.
- Chanuqa : 120 hits.
Xanuka, really? Chanuqa? Any spelling that starts with a J? But to each their own, I guess. My preferred spelling, Hanukkah, is verified. I asked one of my Jewish friends, and this was his pick, too.
This guy has been tracking the results for a few years now and has a cool graph showing the changes in the popularity of the terms over time. Here’s the original site.
What’s your opinion on the spelling of it?
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Don't worry -- Sex and the City is NOT on this list
Romantic movies don’t, in general, have a good rep with guys. It’s not like we don’t get emotional — just catch one of us watching Rudy. And we’re even okay with romance in movies, when it’s well done. What guy doesn’t like the end of Rocky?
But we don’t do chick-flicks. The term was invented as derisive and inflammatory term towards the type of hyperfeminine film that usually has a dramatic and unrealistic take on love. Romantic comedies? Nuh-uh. If its primary thread is a love story, then we don’t want it.
Nonetheless, there are exceptions, and I am here today to provide the public service of sharing a few of these. These are the kind of movies that are so well done or creative that they’ll pierce through that shield of a testosterone and manliness that hides the part of us known as “feelings” or “emotions.”
Are these widely known? Yeah. Pretty predictable picks? Sure. You’ve probably seen or heard of these four recent stories and one classic. But the holidays are a romantic and sentimental time, plus Valentine’s day is just around the corner. You ladies can always use a reminder for what to show us to keep the atomosphere romantic and sweet for both us.
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You want lists? I got a headache just looking at the titles for all of the lists that have been featured on Wikipedia’s home page.
Want to know what members of the Arkansas Razorbacks have gone to the NFL? A list of the major events in British philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft’s life? How about a list of schools in Marlborough, New Zealand?
Then Wikipedia’s the place for you. Those are a few of the obscure ones, but a bunch of them are useful, if still pretty specific. You can look up the discographies of a whole bunch of bands and learn all about how the Redskins have performed historically every year since the franchise was formed.
So, in summary, if you want to waste hours and hours looking at a learning a lot about niche topics through vaguely interesting lists, the Wikipedia featured list section is for you.
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