Things you love for no good reason

[Overrated]

Pleated pants

99 Luftballoons by Nena

Electronic lighters

Navy blue bandanas

 

[Trey Beamon]

- The Pittsburgh Pirates' new front office

- The cheap Sony headphones you can get for $10

- Random Wham! songs

- Rolling Rock Light

- Chief Wahoo

- Wal-Mart runs at 2 a.m.

- Root Beer Bottle Caps

- Febreze Candles

- Catching bluegill

- The little crunchy things at the bottom of a Long John Silver's box

 

[bigpern23]

Maps.

 

[luckyducky]

- Wal-Mart runs at 2 a.m.

List threads that are good entertainment

Having a sunroof in my car despite living in the pacific northwest

that the song "leaving on a jet plane" gets stuck in my head everytime I go to an airport

the promise of the future -- new places, new people, new adventures

penn state football

arizona

switching back and forth randomly between proper capitalization and non-use of capital letters

the show two-and-a-half men

the open letters thread

 

[sportschick]

Stan

Hot pink shirts

Plaid skirts

Montana

Animal Cops

 

[Beaker]

Maps.

Right on. I could read a map for hours.

Also,

Crushed ice

Cherry cough drops

Random Creed songs

Wendy's runs

 

[Tom Petty]

del taco

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Maps.

Right on. I could read a map for hours.

Also,

Crushed ice

Cherry cough drops

Random Creed songs

Wendy's runs

Uh, dude, that one may need to be re-phrased.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Maps of Hawaii.

 

[Overrated]

that the song "leaving on a jet plane" gets stuck in my head everytime I go to an airport

Well, ****, there ain't no time to take a fast train.

Oh, and I love the creepiness of those old Werthers Originals commercials.

 

[dixiehack]

Abba.

 

[Beaker]

Maps.

Right on. I could read a map for hours.

Also,

Crushed ice

Cherry cough drops

Random Creed songs

Wendy's runs

Uh, dude, that one may need to be re-phrased.

Ahh, well done.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

"In a Big Country" by Big Country

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba

"I'll Never Let You Go" by Steelheart

Old Chargers uniforms

Old issues of "The National" and other National merchandise.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Overdone SportsJournalists.com phrases

 

[John]

When my 65-year-old mom sends me a text message from her iPhone

The gruff voice all quarterbacks use at the line of scrimmage

The way a coach I cover starts every answer to one of my questions with "Again, ..." — even when it's the first thing I've asked him.

 

[Joe Williams]

Sound a car's tires make on a metal bridge roadway.

Those very odd moments when a song you've been thinking about suddenly comes on the car radio. Bonus points if you turn on the radio or switch to the station and ... there it is!

Opportunities to make like that delinquent kid on The Simpsons and say, "Hah hah!" at just the right moment when someone screws up. Breaks the tension every time. Or quadruples it.

And this guy:

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Hot showers

Digital video recorders

Sugar-free Slurpees

NFL gamebooks

Mark Wahlberg's bad acting

Smell of chimney smoke on a crisp autumn day

Sandals, even when it's cold outside

Driving

Reading the newspaper while standing up in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal

 

[BYH]

"I'll Never Let You Go" by Steelheart

There is no shame in liking that song. NONE!!!!

 

[dooley_womack1]

--Disco
--Walking on city streets
--Watching telenovelas with the sound off
--A cigar about twice a year

 

[RossLT]

Rainy days

Tv shows on DVD

Fireplaces in studio apartments

text messaging

Quiznos