Tuesday Top Ten: Lists Sent to Me By Random Websites

I've mentioned before that I get bombarded with emails from various websites asking me to post links to their articles.  It's now up to probably 30 emails a week I receive from these people, and maybe 10% of the articles are actually interesting and/or relevant to anything I post about here, unlike, say, "hot STEM fields for new grads," "things car insurers don't tell you," or "most controversial faculty firings."  Seriously, Tim Handorf at bestcollegesonline.com sends me an irrelevant article just about every day.  I even wrote a few of them back to tell them that what they were sending me didn't really relate to the subjects that I post about, and that only seemed to encourage them to send more and tell their friends.  The best part is that one of them mistook GMYH for GLBT, and has been sending me various articles about issues in the gay and transgender communities.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.

So anyway, I didn't have time to write a Tuesday Top Ten today, so here is a list of some of the articles these other websites sent to me in the last month that I haven't deleted.  And yes, I realize that by posting these, I am only encouraging them to send me more.

8 Cartoon Houses We Wish Were Real.  The Gummi Bears is a glaring omission.

10 Modern-Day Execs Who Started at the Bottom

11 Reasons Laughter May Really Be the Best Medicine of All.  It's free, so even the uninsured can afford it.

25 Brilliant and Literary-Inspired Mixed Drinks

10 Worst Bits of Advice That Boomers Gave Us

9 Classic Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers.  I did.

10 Best Movie Scenes About Business Travel

9 College Lessons We Learned from 90210

10 Toys Popular in 1970 and Still Popular Today.  No Pet Rock?

20 Famous Rejection Letters We Can All Learn From.  Perhaps they were rejected because their sentences ended with propositions.

15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

7 Inspiring Athletes Who Went From Rags to Riches.  As opposed to the uninspiring athletes who went from rags to riches.

50 Links You Need if You Dream of a Career in Sports

10 Celebrated Geniuses Who Died Penniless

The 8 Most Gruesome Video Games of All Time.  No Pitfall?  Apparently getting eating by an alligator isn't gruesome just because it's in 8-bit graphics.

The 20 Most Legendary College Bars.  Three things wrong with this.  First, no Nick's English Hut in Bloomington.  Second, Harry's Chocolate Shop is a terrible bar because it is always full of horrible-looking idiots with skid marks in their sweats.  Third, Delilah's is not a college bar.  It's a punk bar with a giant whiskey selection, and Slash sometimes hangs out there.

10 College Football Powerhouses That Fell from Glory.  I guess Fordham has fallen on some rough times.

8 Coaches Who Were Unfairly Fired

9 NCAA Reforms That Need to Happen.  "Ban people named John Calipari" was noticeably absent.