Top 10 Annoying Local Commercials

Posted on April 8th, 2008 at 10:00 by shea | No Comments »

For this week’s Top 10, we’ve scoured the depths of YouTube to bring you the Top 10 Annoying Local TV Commercials.  We’ll start off with a favorite of my hometown, Bernie & Phyl’s.

#10 Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture

Which one is Bernie?  Which one is Phyl?  WTF are they saying?

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Top 10 April Fool’s Pranks

Posted on April 1st, 2008 at 11:00 by shea | No Comments »

Fool

Ahhh, isn’t April Fool’s Day great? The internet always seems to take this day particularly difficultly. For our first of hopefully many weekly Top 10 lists, we bring you the Top 10 April Fool’s Pranks of all time.

Guinness Time

#10 Guinness Buys Naming Rights for GMT – April Fool’s Day 1998

Guinness releases a press release announcing they have reached a sponsorship partnership with the Old Royal Observatory of Greenwich, England, which lends it’s name to the base timezone, Greenwich Mean Time. Under the terms of this sponsorship, GMT would be renamed as Guinness Mean Time. They fooled at least the Financial Times, who took Guinness to task for the purchase before later printing a retraction.

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Top 10 Hardest NES Games | Article

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 by shea | No Comments »

RefuelingI remember far too many of these games.  Yo Noid was actually not horrible, certainly was challenging, but the pizza contest at the end of each level were relatively simple.  Silver Surfer and Ghosts and Goblins were vile creatures from the depths of hell.  And I still don’t think I ever successfully refueled in Top Gun.

Top 10 Hardest NES Games | Article

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The Ten Best Films of Sundance ‘08

Posted on January 29th, 2008 at 17:35 by shea | No Comments »

A rundown of the top 10 films from the Sundance Film Festival from Film School Rejects

Quite of few of these look great.  I’ve been looking forward to Please Be Kind and Choke was an entertaining read, so it looks like 2008 may have some tasty movies.  Hopefully these find some wide-scale release.

The Ten Best Films of Sundance ‘08 – Film School Rejects

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