List Sampler
About the List Sampler
Since many visitors to klugness.com have not had the time to look through the 100+ historical top ten lists that we drafted before the site launched, we have highlighting selected lists in the table below. This sampler feature gives viewers the opportunity to get an overview of our content without having to slog through over 100 top ten lists.
The list sampler includes 18 top ten lists that were written at various times from 2019 to 2022. (Some of the material is rather dated.) Check them out!
AI and traditional pictures are now on the klugness site
About the AI Images
As our regular visitors know, we began adding images to the klugness website in mid January. While the site was previously text-dominated, images are now included on the vast majority of the Imagining Things blog entries, and around 40% of the funny top ten lists. Woo hoo!
Most of the images were generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) software known as DALL-E based on text prompts that we supplied. For example, we typed in "grouchy old man" and got this:
This image of "grouchy old man" was created by Klugmeister using artificial intelligence software. The image was reviewed by Klugmeister before posting on this web page.
Cool, huh? Our webmaster likes it so much that he's thinking about adopting it as his avatar. He doesn't look exactly like the picture, but he is very grouchy, so it might as well be him.
Anyhoo, our webmaster spent some concentrated time in mid January 2023 generating lots of pix based on quirky text prompts. He was having so much fun typing "deer playing a board game" (List 115) and "a goldfish that looks like Gandalf" (List 118), and then viewing the cool pix that DALL-E generated, that he just couldn't stop. It was sadly reminiscent of his unfortunate Tetris addiction during the 1990s. Sure, pix created using the AI are different, but also fun!
About the Traditional Images
More recently—on June 12, 2023—we added about 20 traditional pictures (i.e., pictures taken with a smartphone). Most of the new pictures were added onto older funny top ten lists, but some are reflected on lists published as recently as March and April.
The new pix are most noticeable on the 50+ Trump-Themed Lists. Previously, the Trump-themed lists were largely picture-free because of a restriction that photos generated by DALL-E can't be used for political purposes. We noticed that our Trump-themed content seemed kinda sparse without pictures, so we're rather pleased with ourselves that we've finally started adorning our hilarious Trump jokes with photos.
Because of the now unwieldy number of top ten lists that include pictures, we've decided to remove the handy table of picture-containing funny top ten lists that once appeared in this area. However, the good news is that we've added a useful pdf file that contains a printable summary of all the funny top ten lists on www.klugness.com. This listing also identifies which lists include pictures, and whether the pictures were generated using AI or birthed in the traditional way. The printable archive also shows which funny top ten lists are included in the Now vs. Then series and the Trump-Themed archive. We hope you find this cross-reference information useful.
Since we regard some of the images added in June as strangely cool, we've commandeered the table of top ten lists that contain images (which previously occupied this spot) to show a few selected lists to which traditional images were added in June—see table below. Clearly, the photos weren't taken by a professional but we think the severe slackdedness of these images is part of what makes the pix funny!
Our current working theory is that most older folks who liked MAD magazine when they were 12 years old subsequently grew up and moved on (and therefore regard this site as silly). Sadly, we have not moved on. In fact, List 44 below proves conclusively that our emotional age is still 12 and we are silly. Ha!
| Num | Top Ten List (and Clickable Link) | Date Written |
|---|---|---|
| 147.) | Top Ten Fake Explanations of the Baseball Bat | 03/30/2023 |
| 144.) | Top Ten Things in Ted Cruz's Beard—Part 6 | 03/21/2023 |
| 106.) | Top Ten Unexpected Revelations from the Final January 6 Hearing (Satirical) | 10/20/2022 |
| 65.) | Top Ten Possible Contents of the Letter President Trump Left for Joe Biden | 01/20/2021 |
| 44.) | Top Ten Kool Things about Thighland | 08/31/2020 |
| 37.) | Top Ten Trumpified Ice Cream Flavors (Part 2) | 06/13/2020 |
| 36.) | Top Ten Trumpified Ice Cream Flavors (Part 1) | 06/12/2020 |