The list for May 13, 2013
The Top 15 Interesting Ways Humanity Could
Be Wiped From the Face of the Earth
Be Wiped From the Face of the Earth
- The last taxpayer on the planet finally quits his job and everyone starves to death.
- The world’s dogs and cats finally get fed up with crappy food and collectively switch to a meatier diet.
- By 2014, the Cinnamon Challenge kills all seven billion humans.
- 2045: President Boo-Boo decides she’s had jus’ about enuff of the sass comin’ outta that stuck-up German Chancellor’s pie-hole.
- Remember that inexhaustible supply of solar energy? Turns out it wasn’t.
- Thanks to science, we now understand the other gender so well that we want nothing to do with them ever again.
- Joe Biden confuses his Wii remote with the Doomsday Button and accidentally launches nuclear warheads toward the Middle East.
- Just as the last holdout becomes a belieber, Justin reveals himself as the Anti-Christ.
- The ill-conceived "Mentos-in-Coke-Bottles-Across-America."
- Kardashian vaginas turn to stone anyone who sees one — which eventually is pretty much, well, everyone.
- Those gay marriage opponents were right! It destroyed THE ENTIRE WORLD!!
- The water supply accumulates too much DDT, PCB, BPA, TCE, HAA, MTBE, PAH, PCDD, PCDF, DEHP, TBP, LAS, NPE, DBP, BBP, HCH, and AOX — and everyone dies of acronym poisoning.
- The return of the 570-million year cicada raptor.
- We had prepared for a "Planet of the Apes" scenario, but were completely blindsided by the "Planet of the Cuddly Bunnies" thing.
And the Number 1 Interesting Way Humanity Could Be Wiped From the Face of the Earth…
- The population literally explodes, thanks to McDonald’s hopelessly addictive new McMeth With Cheese.
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CREDITS
Selected from 57 submissions from 20 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- SarahJayne Bennett, London, England — 1 (2nd #1)
- Adela Branson, Soda Springs, ID — 2
- Michael Cunningham, Woodridge, IL — 3, 10
- Roy Skogstrom, Pepeekeo, HI — 4
- Kim Moser, New York, NY — 5, 13
- Jeremy Shelley, Possum Trot, KY — 6
- Mark D. Sabien, What Cheer, IA — 7, 12
- Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH — 8
- Daniel Weckerly, Limerick, PA — 9
- Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 11
- Lori Petterson, Fairfax, VA — 14
- David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA — 15
- Bruce K. Skillin, Daegu, South Korea — Topic
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ — Banner Tag
- Chris White, Olympia, WA — List owner/editor
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