Givin' my props to cracked

I've already linked 'em once in the form of 'Nilla Hail, but I'll out and out mention 'em now: the folk over at Cracked put together some funny lists.

Ever since I acquired the Book of Lists as a curious child, I've had a fascination and respect for good lists. [Incidentally, this book had a companion piece, whose name eludes me. The Book of Questions? Or was it the Book of Lists #2? At any rate, I believe it was the predecessor of this]

I've spoken before about my enjoyment of The Sports Guy, and my desire to emulate / imitate / jubilate him (Turns out my emulation was a one-off after all, but I still think A Sports Guy will return). What he and Cracked have in common is their ability to write about things we all think, but most writers ignore. That Seinfeldian world of day to day daydreaming, odd hypotheticals, subjunctive replays and pointless but amusing things. They tend to write in quite an informal, spoken style and are happy to coin words.

Cracked misses as often as it hits, but this is a trademark of any good comedy, or indeed art or any other creative venture. Some may get the hit to miss ratio higher than others, but you can never completely remove the lame joke gristle from the comedy steak, to paraphrase Douglas Hofstadter.

Recent Cracked lists I've enjoyed:
The ten most awesome movies Hollywood ever killed
The five biggest mismatches in movie fight history (for some reason, that picture of John Lithgow kills me)
The MILFiest 80s sitcom mums (ok, this one's a little crass)

You needn't actually agree with their lists, but they're still pretty entertaining.