As the saying goes: It’s silly to be important, but it’s more important to be silly. Below, you will find our silliest work of 2022. First, though, a note to you all.
As others have said: Thanks to everyone who’s submitted so far to The Barking Crow’s Best of 2022 collections. If you’ve yet to make submissions and you’d like to do that, send them over to allthingsnit@gmail.com, or message us on Twitter or Instagram. You have one day left, and the category remaining is…
- The Barking Crow’s Best Work of 2022
(it’s taking a while to find any of that)
Ok. The silliness. In appreciation for the legendarily silly AP Poll, we’ll be doing this as a Top 25 with very little thought put into it, complete with “others receiving votes.” Also, Fargo was disqualified. Had a distinct silliness advantage by virtue of being a dog. That’s a PED—Performance-Enhancing DNA.
1. Does Colonel Sanders Know About the Birds?
2. We Found the Dumbest List on the Internet
3. World Leaders and Space Jam
4. Which Mascots Are Clumsy, Which Are Perverts
5. Just Kidding (eggs)
6. Time Zones: Do They Exist?
7. Is Carla Tejas a Fake Name?
8. Why I Ate Moldy Edamame for Four Days
9. If You’re Gonna Get Stabbed…
10. What Every World Cup Country Would Have Brought to Thanksgiving Dinner
11. How the Conversation Went With Fetch
12. Should the Oilers and Avalanche Try Meth?
13. I Need to Get My Hands on a Bridge
14. Revisiting My Idea to Slow Rising Sea Levels By Digging a Big Hole in the Middle of the Ocean
15. Picking Up Dog Poop Is the New Smoking
16. Medieval Toilets
17. What If We Added One Letter to Every Bowl Game?
18. The Most Awkward Matchups of the World Cup Group Stage
19. The Wienermobile Visited My Hometown and I Have Thoughts
20. Turkmenistan Is Trying to Shut Down Hell Again
21. How to Deal With Coyotes in Your Hockey League
22. All 21 Replies to a Tweet About a New Omaha Skyscraper
23. How to Iron Nylon
24. If They Ever Amputate a Foot of Mine, I Hope It’s the Gross One
25. The Question About Bar Harbor
Receiving votes: The Great Black Swamp: What You Need to Know; Why Do So Many ‘Life Tips’ Sound Like Pranks?; What Happens If You Eat Gunpowder?; Feral Cat Rescue Videos: Adorable? Or Unsettling?; That Panamanian Isthmus Road; What Should We Do About Putin and the Nukes?; It’s Time for the Pie Test; Things That Feel Like Going to the Post Office; Ocean Facts! (This Is About the App ‘MarineTraffic’); The Heist at the Flying J; Ding Dong, Texas: It’s a Place!; The Worst Thing to See on an Airplane; Short, Stocky, Bald, and Insecure; Can You Make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich Out of Parmesan?; Tax Facts!; Inventors Are Dope; Do Birds Take Morning Dumps?; Reminder: Canada Is Not a Democracy; I Don’t Need Night Mode in Excel; The Great Thing About QR Code Menus; Americans Love London, But They Hate Tea
