A top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists.

January 1, 2012 5:38 PM

My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list
posted by The Devil Tesla (25 comments total)

Damn, I was hoping this might be about awesome Alan Moore-penned superhero-cop comics.
posted by Tomorrowful at 5:44 PM on January 1, 2012 [1 favorite]

Stop this madness, for the love of God!
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:44 PM on January 1, 2012

Inevitable, but that's no excuse.
posted by tommasz at 5:47 PM on January 1, 2012 [2 favorites]

Stop this "Stop this madness, for the love of God" madness, for the love of God!
posted by hippybear at 5:48 PM on January 1, 2012 [12 favorites]

Stop this "Stop this "Stop this madness, for the love of God" madness, for the love of God!" madness, for the love of God!
posted by idiopath at 5:50 PM on January 1, 2012 [6 favorites]

I predicted this. (and I'm not proud of it)
posted by oneswellfoop at 5:50 PM on January 1, 2012

Wasn't this supposed to stop automatically when we crossed into the new year?
posted by spitefulcrow at 5:50 PM on January 1, 2012

Coming soon: "Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Ways to Stop the Madness, For the Love of God."
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:52 PM on January 1, 2012 [3 favorites]

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say, "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there are two kinds of people in the world, and the other kind," and there's who don't say. Well, then there's me. --Bob Dobbs
posted by sourwookie at 6:39 PM on January 1, 2012 [6 favorites]

Very clever, but it's turtles all the way down..."
posted by Windopaene at 7:16 PM on January 1, 2012 [1 favorite]

This link is definitely going on my list.
posted by fredludd at 7:27 PM on January 1, 2012

So meta, it hurts to see.
posted by Avelwood at 7:27 PM on January 1, 2012

Now I need nine more lists like this one.
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 7:58 PM on January 1, 2012 [1 favorite]

I feel like the Hofstadter should be an SI unit for self-reference.
posted by vogon_poet at 8:36 PM on January 1, 2012 [5 favorites]

Wait but do the turtles go all the way up too?
posted by sammyo at 8:51 PM on January 1, 2012

Oh my god, it's full of turtles!
posted by vidur at 10:15 PM on January 1, 2012

I predicted this

I predicted this before you did.
posted by twoleftfeet at 10:31 PM on January 1, 2012

The next logical step is to do this ten years in a row so we could make a top ten top ten top ten top ten list.
posted by daniel_charms at 10:47 PM on January 1, 2012

I feel like soon we'll reach top ten top ten list critical mass and the field will collapse into some kind of strange, self-referential black hole.

Well, it'll be either from the lists or all these damn turtles everywhere.
posted by clavier at 11:56 PM on January 1, 2012

It's top ten lists all the way down.
posted by daniel_charms at 12:08 AM on January 2, 2012 [1 favorite]

was hoping for a ten top top ten ten tops list :(
posted by fallingbadgers at 2:22 AM on January 2, 2012

Yo dawg I heard you liked David Letterman.
posted by erniepan at 2:53 AM on January 2, 2012

Didn't the porn industry figure out this format ten years ago?
posted by flabdablet at 4:27 AM on January 2, 2012

And you people scoffed at us when we warned you about the dangers of the Large Hadron Collider. Enjoy your infinite recursion!
posted by digitalprimate at 2:09 PM on January 2, 2012

Are you suggesting the Higgs boson is to be found here?
posted by flabdablet at 2:06 AM on January 4, 2012