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A cartoon-style illustration of a golden retriever—one of the top ten Car-Chasing Dog Breeds—sprinting after an orange sedan on a country road, tongue out, ears flapping, while the startled driver glances back in alarm.

"Race you to the light."

Ten Car-Chasing Dog Breeds Ranked

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Disclaimer: No Car-Chasing Dog Breeds, top ten or otherwise, should ever be allowed to chase cars. It is dangerous, chaotic, and deeply embarrassing when they… Read More

Illustration titled 'Top Ten Phish Tunes That Should’ve Stayed in the Practice Room' featuring a cartoon guitarist strumming a red electric guitar and pointing to a colorful ranking chart of ten Phish songs.

Ten of Phish’s most questionable tunes, because even legends have off days.

Music Top Ten Lists

🎸Top Ten Phish Tunes That Should Have Stayed in the Practice Room

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Ah, the Top Ten Phish Tunes That Should’ve Stayed in the Practice Room, tunes that even the most devoted wooks pretend don’t exist. Let’s dive… Read More

A surreal voice for Alexa from the “Top Ten New Alexa Voices” editorial series. “The Cryptid Concierge,” a Sasquatch-like creature with shaggy golden-brown fur, seated at a vintage radio console deep in a misty forest. Wearing headphones and glasses, the cryptid speaks into a retro microphone.

Did I calibrate the foghorn correctly … or did I just summon the elk council again?"

Top Ten Lists

Ten New Alexa Voices

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Let’s crack open the cosmic voice vault and summon ten New Alexa Voices, each one a mythic upgrade from the current sterile defaults. These are… Read More

A cartoon car circles an impossible cloverleaf highway for National Take the Wrong Turn Day, with the driver gripping the wheel and the passenger holding an upside-down map as a man at a gas station points in three directions at once.

Lost but defiant, he insists this loop is definitely the shortcut.

Book of Daze

Book of Daze: Take the Wrong Turn Day

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For centuries, we humans have been rushing to take the wrong turn, driven by the hubris that we know a better way–over mountains, through deserts,… Read More

Handshake Etiquette humorous: a lineup of ten different handshake types—clammy, bone-crusher, bro shake, fingertip flutter, germ-aware hover—each exaggerated to show its comic personality.

Choose your handshake like you would your weapon: carefully, and preferably after washing your hands.

Top Ten Lists

Handshake Etiquette: Ten Types of Handshakes and When to Deploy Them

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There was a time when a handshake was a simple affirmation: I greet you, I will not stab you with the other hand. Now with… Read More

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Book of Daze

Book of Daze: Boycott ESPN Day

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Join the annual ritual of resistance with Book of Daze: Boycott ESPN Day–a satirical celebration for fans who have had enough of sermons, scandals, race… Read More

Harry Styles running a marathon in disguise while other celebrities in fake mustaches, wigs, pseudonyms, and sunglasses try to pass unnoticed.”

Trump's about to come from behind,

Sporting Life

Celebrities Who Competed Under Pseudonyms

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Harry Styles thought he was clever slipping into the Berlin Marathon as “Sted Sarandos.” But he is just the latest in a long, ignoble tradition… Read More

Subjunctive mood illustration with a king wearing a crown labeled “If I Were,” courtiers bowing while muttering conditional clauses, and a jester holding a grammar textbook like a scepter.

If I were a carpenter ...

Top Ten Lists

Why Americans Should Master the Subjunctive Mood

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America has always been a nation of moods–angry moods, hungry moods, “why does my neighbor mow at 6 a.m.?” moods. But the mood we desperately… Read More