Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists of Top 10 Lists

(This suggestion from @thermalsatsuma, only I’ve Inceptioned it up a bit)

how about your favourite top ten top ten lists of things?

You see, that’s fine in principle, but I thought a Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists was a bit passé. Any fool can come up with one of them. What I’ve decided to do, then, is post up my Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists. It’s Top Ten Lists all the way down. Sadly, (Top 10)^2 lists are pretty hard to come by, so this (Top 10)^3 list might well be the (Top 10)^3 list, but some of the (Top 10)^2 lists are a bit suspect.

Think of it in terms of a Top 10 One Direction Songs list. Sure, you can choose the Top 10, but they’re all still One Direction songs.

10 – Top 10 Top 10 Lists

This guy’s face. And voice. But mainly his face. In my Top Ten Faces That Look A Bit Like Zachary Quinto, he’d be about number 5. Also: they’re all fake lists. Cheat!

9 – TOP TEN TOP TENS

Illadvisedly sticking with YouTube for number 9, here’s a set of top tens mainly about Power Rangers. Mainly about female Power Rangers. At least they’re mostly not fake top tens though, although one is a top 20. Voice warning again, sorry.

8 – Top Top Tens

Featuring top tens of “anime fight scenes” and “pickup lines for Lara Croft”. Sigh. At least there’s no annoying video, eh? Small blessings and that.

http://faans.com/toptens.html

7- Are These David Letterman’s 10 Best Top 10 Lists?

I don’t find David Letterman (or more correctly, his writers) funny so I couldn’t answer the question with any sort of authority, but if they are the best then how bad are the worst? Or is that the joke?

http://www.adweek.com/news/television/are-these-david-lettermans-10-best-top-10-lists-164523

6 – Middle-earth Top Ten Lists

Excellent. Tolkien geek humour. It’s what made the internet great in 1997! Top Tens here range from “Top Ten Things People Say About Characters in LOTR” to “Top 10 Reasons Why Some Fellowship Board Posters Love Elijah Wood”.

http://www.lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/topten/toptentopten.html

5 – Ten Top Tens

This is from “Healthcare Quarterly”, and lists lists (yep, lists lists) of articles about, well, healthcare. It’s probably very informative and of actual real-world use, but it’s so damn dry and boring. There aren’t even any gifs.

http://www.longwoods.com/content/19325

4 – Top Ten Top Tens

Users of the Retro Gaming Roundup forum got to vote on the best top tens on the site. Unfortunately, only six people voted and all for different top tens, so there’s a six-way tie for first and four top tens got nothing. It’s all important stuff too, like “Video Game Hunks” and “Worst Atari 2600 Games”.

http://retrogamingroundup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7621

3 – What are the top ten “top 10” lists?

This is a question on Quora[ref]Fun fact: I was banned from Quora because I used “deKay” as my name.[/ref], and the provided answers (there are actually several sets of top ten top tens, as a bonus) are actually quite interesting. Some are serious (“What are the top 10 philosophical ideas that everyone should understand?”) and some less so (“What are the top ten reasons why someone should not date you?” – unless that is actually serious?).

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-ten-top-10-lists

2 – The Protomen’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists From Their Lists Of Top Tens

The Protomen are (invokes Wikipedia) “an American rock band best known for composing original concept albums loosely based on the popular video game series Mega Man.”. Oh of course! Those The Protomen.

They’ve chosen a list of top tens, including “Top Ten Reasons To Have More Than 5 People In Your Rock And Roll Band” and “Top Ten Bill Paxton Movies”, but they get bonus points for the recursion caused by putting their Top Ten list at number one of their list of Top Tens. Clever girl!

http://geargods.net/top-10/the-protomens-top-ten-top-ten-lists-from-their-lists-of-top-tens/

(Oooh! When did WordPress start embedding other blogs like that?)

And finally!

1 – The Ten Best Top-Ten Lists

These are a lists that are for the most part genuinely interesting and worth reading, so are at number one on my list. They include “Top 10 List of Data Disasters”, “10 Most Wanted Fugitives”, and “Top 10 Most Commonly Encountered Hoaxes and Chain Letters”.

It’s not a funny list, but I liked it.

http://www.alternet.org/story/30157/the_ten_best_top-ten_lists

Now, if someone would like to include this post in a Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists – that’s (Top 10)^4, then please feel free.