By: This Guy
There's also whipped cream flavored vodka. If you topped the latter with the former, you'd have one weird-ass cocktail." My dad bought some of this before Christmas, and we had some horrifyingly...
View ArticleBy: egypturnash
1978: Fashion lists - out. Individual style - in. Well I guess that one got rescinded the next year given that they proceeded to do lists for another thirty-odd years.
View ArticleBy: kittyprecious
OK, this is totally hilarious. Maybe some of it's DC-specific, like the hype over the IHOP. Or maybe absurdist humor is one of the things Metafilter doesn't do well.My brother and his wife are buying a...
View ArticleBy: andreaazure
OK Soda was awesome! (Once, I spilled OK Soda on a blank piece of paper. Then, it turned into a finished book report. I got a B-... and that was OK.)
View ArticleBy: Sys Rq
Crystal Pepsi was a great product. There, I said it. At least in terms of flavoured sugar-water, I mean. Cola that doesn't turn your mouth brown? Yes, please! The fact that it was DOA should be blamed...
View ArticleBy: mippy
Tiki bars have been around in London for ages - I got taken to one by a date because he wanted to drink a flaming cocktail out of half an artificial coconut. I think I'd rather a Speakeasy.
View ArticleBy: fuse theorem
fuse theorem, True Grit is another adaptation of the novel, not a remake. But, sure, Coen Bros. films always pale in comparison to supernatural soap operas. :P You say "another adaptation", I say...
View ArticleBy: Decani
Wow, the WP really thinks 2011 is going to be the year of Richard Dawkins and Corporate Darwinism, don't they? posted by BYiro at 9:11 PM on January 1 Wut? Where did they mention Dawkins? I don't see...
View ArticleBy: Decani
So, some smug gitwad writes an article declaring this or that is out... because he or she says so? Okay then, here's this smug gitwad's list: OUT: Lists of things that some smug gitwad considers "in"...
View ArticleBy: A Terrible Llama
Sauerkraut and sequins are in? Finally a chance to wear the new dress!
View ArticleBy: psycho-alchemy
Since I seem to have been completely oblivious to 90% of last years list, I may be able to up my obliviousness this year to 95%.
View ArticleBy: andreaazure
OUT: Large, soulless social sites like Facebook. IN: Small, independent social sites like Metafilter. Facebook is like LA, Metafilter is like Portland. We need more Portlands. (Even if I stick out with...
View ArticleBy: outlandishmarxist
I got unjustifiably angry reading this list. Something about reducing everything in life to a fad makes me want to scream. Sarcasm, out; uncontrollable rage, in.
View ArticleBy: misskaz
Regarding the 2011 list: 1. I love Cherry Coke Zero, I really do, but Canada Dry Diet Ginger Ale is the greatest diet soda of all time. We just got a new soda machine at work and it is one of the...
View ArticleBy: kenko
(Concave chests out, bosoms in) But if the concave chests are out, and the bosoms are in, isn't that a noop?
View ArticleBy: mai
I just watched the video of the boy-band mashup. I have to admit that seeing the New Kids on the Block made me squeal just like the young girl I was when I last saw them.
View ArticleBy: Babblesort
New Kids on the Backstreet Boys is a serious and legitimate thing that is actually happening? I'm willing to stipulate that it is a serious thing if we can move on to debate over "legitimate".
View ArticleBy: Lemurrhea
That seems problematic from the standpoint of cardinality alone; one New Kid would have no Backstreet Boy on which to be. That seems fine. | | | | | | | | | I used to do this with cafeteria glasses all...
View ArticleBy: kerning
I, for one, am just glad that Cherry Coke Zero, one of the greatest diet sodas of our time, is finally getting its turn in the spotlight. Take that, Diet Dr. Pepper. You're out.
View ArticleBy: formless
Perhaps the most effective solution would be a layer of New Kids with Backstreet Boys on them in the manner of stacked firewood. It's Boy Bands all the way down.
View ArticleBy: Daily Alice
And ..... hippies were "in" and yuppies were "out" at the start of 1987? In what bizarro universe? No, that one's true, at least in terms of what mass media was promoting. I was 16 in 1987 and a...
View ArticleBy: chaff
You can have my Self Loathing Sexcapades when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
View ArticleBy: bl1nk
2010: Fraud (Out), Adultery(In) 2011: Self Loathing Sexcapades (Out), Realizing You're Not Don Draper (In) if the editors of The List actually attempted to retain some level of consistency between each...
View ArticleBy: jonmc
Alcoholic whipped cream There's also whipped cream flavored vodka. If you topped the latter with the former, you'd have one weird-ass cocktail.
View ArticleBy: molecicco
Funny, I might describe metafilter as: elite, mildly insufferable, perennially baffling But totally in a good way!
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
I totally called gourmet doughnuts as the Next Food Fad like a year ago. Look upon me and despair.
View ArticleBy: Phalene
I'm quite amused that most of the thing on that list feel like old hat. I missed the sweet crepe craze and have been quietly ignoring whoopie pies, while wondering whether either fancy jellos or...
View ArticleBy: blucevalo
Clever word gymnastics aside, a remake of a classic film that no one will be talking about a month from now (or at least not after the Academy Awards) versus some lustful, smoking hot, Southern-style...
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
I am capable of liking both terse Westerns AND sexy vampires at the same time. I know right, amazing.
View ArticleBy: brundlefly
fuse theorem, True Grit is another adaptation of the novel, not a remake. But, sure, Coen Bros. films always pale in comparison to supernatural soap operas. :P
View ArticleBy: BYiro
Wow, the WP really thinks 2011 is going to be the year of Richard Dawkins and Corporate Darwinism, don't they? Can't wait to them to evolve into something relevant to the 21st century.
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
New Kids on the Backstreet Boys Okay raise your hand if your brain went to a completely different place for a second.
View ArticleBy: fuse theorem
Out: True Blood In: True Grit Clever word gymnastics aside, a remake of a classic film that no one will be talking about a month from now (or at least not after the Academy Awards) versus some lustful,...
View ArticleBy: Wolfdog
Also, I would like to say that this animated gif, set, as it is, to loop infinitely, is probably quite representative of what happens with whatever snake oil they're trying to sell with it.
View ArticleBy: KevinSkomsvold
Wolfdog: "I would describe MetaFilter as: Filiblustery Oily Refudiated Vuvuzela-esque Gay" FORVG? In a world where SLYT exists, I guess that's doable.
View ArticleBy: octothorpe
Both bands performed together last night on the Dick Clark/Ryan Secrest Times Square thing.
View ArticleBy: Wolfdog
New Kids on the Backstreet Boys is a serious and legitimate thing that is actually happening? That seems problematic from the standpoint of cardinality alone; one New Kid would have no Backstreet Boy...
View ArticleBy: amethysts
I feel like it's kind of useless for these items to not all have supporting links. Without supporting links it's just a random assemblage of words.
View ArticleBy: delmoi
In: MIA Out: NKOTBSB I had no idea what NKOTBSB was, but apparently it's an amalgam of New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys. What the fuck?
View ArticleBy: Wolfdog
I would describe MetaFilter as: Filiblustery Oily Refudiated Vuvuzela-esque Gay
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