The Future Aint What it Used to Be's blog: "lists"

These are the nice cars that right now are the most popular with car buyers. Top Sports Cars: 1. 2007 Lotus Elise 2. 2007 BMW 5 Series 3. 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 Top Sedans: 1. 2007 BMW 3 Series Sedan 2. 2007 Honda Civic Sedan 3. 2007 Honda Accord Sedan Top Coupes: 1. 2007 Honda Civic Coupe 2. 2007 Ford Mustang 3. 2007 Toyota Yaris Top Convertibles: 1. 2007 Pontiac Solstice 2. 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 3. 2007 BMW M6 Top SUVs: 1. 2007 Honda CR-V 2. 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser 3. 2007 Ford Escape Hybrid Top Wagons: 1. 2007 Audi A3 2. 2007 Toyota Matrix 3. 2007 Dodge Caliber Top Vans: 1. 2007 Honda Odyssey 2. 2007 Toyota Sienna 3. 2007 Nissan Quest Top Trucks: 1. 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Crew Cab 2. 2007 Toyota Truck Tacoma 4X4 3. 2007 Honda Ridgeline Top Luxury Vehicles: 1. 2007 BMW 5 Series 2. 2007 Lotus Elise 3. 2007 Ferrari Top Economy Vehicles: 1. 2007 Toyota Corolla 2. 2007 Honda Civic Sedan 3. 2007 Toyota Yaris

1 new address given to credit card companies 2 new address given for something else 3 New address given to personal delivery 1 Havent checked Compuserve to see if available there or not 2 want to get TV Guide and one make subscription if we can 1 water is on 2 air is on 3 got our keys Movers coming early Monday morning Hopefully it will be a less then 6 hr trip to our probably final destination

-Well how ’bout that? I’m lost! Looks like we’ll have to stop and ask for directions. -You know Pumpkin, now that you’re thirteen, you’ll be ready for non-chaperoned car dates. Won’t that be fun? -I noticed that all your friends have a certain “up yours” attitude. I like that in a young person! -Here’s a credit card and the keys to my new car. GO CRAZY! -What do you mean you want to play football? Figure skating not good enough for you, son? -Your mother and I are going away for while. You might want to consider throwing a party. -Well, I don’t know what’s wrong with your car. Probably one of those doo-hickie thingies - you know - that makes it run or something. Just have it towed to the mechanic’s and pay whatever they ask. -No son of mine is going to live under this roof without an earring. Now quit your belly aching and lets get to the mall. -Whaddaya want to go and get a job for? I make plenty of money for you to spend. -Father’s Day? Ah - don’t worry about that - it’s no big deal.

Signs You've Had Enough Of The 90's You try to enter your password on the microwave. You haven't played patience with real cards in years. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. You e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to ask "Do you fancy going down the pub ?" and they reply "Yeah, give me 5 minutes". You chat several times a day with a stranger from South America, but you haven't spoken to your next door neighbour yet this year. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses. You consider The Postal Service painfully slow or call it "snail mail". Your idea of being organised is multiple coloured post-it notes. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies. Your company welcome sign is attached with Velcro. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket. You really get excited about a 1.7% pay rise. You learn about your redundancy on the 9 o'clock news. Your biggest loss from a system crash is that you lose all your best jokes. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined. It's dark when you drive to and from work, even in the summer. You know exactly how many days you've got left until you retire. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when told of the starting salary. You see a good looking, smart person and you know it must be a visitor. Free food left over from meetings is your staple diet. The work experience person gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the features, while you have time to go for lunch while yours powers up. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital. You're already late on the assignment you just got. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department is short of, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy. Your boss's favourite lines are: When you've got a few minutes....... ......Could you fit this in...? ........................In your spare time............ I know you're busy but................. I have an opportunity for you... Holiday is something you roll over to next year. Every week another brown collection envelope comes round because someone you didn't know had started is leaving. You wonder who's going to be left to put into your 'leaving' collection. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers". The only reason you recognise your kids is because their pictures are on your desk. You only have makeup for fluorescent lighting. You read this entire list, kept nodding and smiling. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "mates you send jokes to" e-mail group. It crosses your mind that your jokes group may have seen this list already, but you can't be bothered to check so you forward it anyway.

Top 25 Songs With Best Opening Lyrics If it's really good and really catchy, the first line of a song can get stuck in your head for forever. You never forget it and just hearing the first three or four opening notes to that tune makes you start to sing it out loud. It's those kinds of lyrics that Spinner.com ranked in a list that honored the best opening lyrics. Coming in No. 1 is Rick James' ''Superfreak'': ''She's a very kinky girl." Creepy when you realize in retrospect that the funk legend went to prison for forcing a woman to be his sex slave. The Top 25 Hit List, courtesy of Spinner.com: 1. "She's a very kinky girl" --Rick James' "Superfreak" 2. "I was born in a cross-fire hurricane" --The Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" 3. "Hey, ho, let's go!" --The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" 4. "Well, she was just seventeen -- you know what I mean" --The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" 5. "Don't call it a comeback" --LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out!" 6. "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?" --The Carpenters' "Close to You" 7. "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" --Beck's "Loser" 8. "Well, it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go!" --Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" 9. "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" --Patti Smith's "Gloria" 10. "Tommy used to work on the docks" --Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" 11. "Oh, I just don't know where to begin" --Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen" 12. "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tiptoes to my room every night" --Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" 13. "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?" --Weezer's "Buddy Holly" 14. "There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief" --Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" 15. "She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene" --Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" 16. "Pigs, they tend to wiggle when they walk" --Pavement's "Stereo" 17. "I was dreaming when I wrote this" --Prince's "1999" 18. "We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" --Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskokee" 19. "Well, I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body" --George Michael's "Faith" 20. "I am an Antichrist" --Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" 21. "Hello, Darkness, my old friend" --Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" 22. "Go, shorty. It's your birthday" --50 Cent's "In Da Club" 23. "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" --The Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" 24. "I've been a bad, bad girl" --Fiona Apple's "Criminal" 25. "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar" --Human League's "Don't You Want Me" --From the Editors at Netscape Copyright © 2007 Netscape Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.