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It’s been a struggle my friends, like jello wrestling a grumpy rhinoceros. I’ve written and trashed at least four different Top Ten Lists as I worked to find something that would elicit a collective giggle from the OC. Then, I decided, why fight it? If you only have bad ideas… use what you know.

So, without further ado… The Top Ten WORST Ideas for a Top Ten List.

10. Top Ten Ways Tamil is ALWAYS the First Post. Most of us can only dream of Tamil's exquisite First Post skills. Unfortunately, once you get past the Tamil-is-a-computer-network-cyborg-monk-ninja metaphors there’s not much left. [Personally, I suspect Tamil has hacked the OC servers and all of us operate on a 15 second delay.]

9. Top Ten Wikipedia Articles to Suck You into Wikipedia for 6 Hours. Really, this is just a trick list, because you list 9 articles and then by the time they get to Number 1 (6 hours later) you say, “GOTCHA!”

8. Top Ten Ways to Really Peeve Haavard in the OC without Getting Banned. Yes, we all know you can state that your wish-list item as the end-all-be-all, or that Opera really should add sparkles to all pages otherwise Opera is just a crappy browser that no one should use, or that Opera should have FireFox Extensions but frankly, I was afraid Haavard would ban me.

7. Top Ten Ways to Procrastinate Writing an Opera Top Ten. This one came up after I found Tamil’s favorite game: Desktop Tower Defense. I’d provide a link but it’s like crack and I can’t do that to you – 5am comes so quickly with those little “Yipee” guys. See Warning: http://xkcd.com/484/

6. Top Ten Ways to be the OCMOTW.(pronounced Ak – moe – twah) Yes, the Ocmotw. Only 52 lucky OCers per year can stand as the Ocmotw and finally I’m willing to reveal the secret… but after the acronym joke it was a bit of a letdown.

5. Top Ten Signs You Clicked a Bad Link on the Internet. Um... I was nowhere bad when “Equestrian Dating” popped up. Scaring me until I realized it was for dating horse riders, not horses…. [Come on, what do you think when you see www.HorseyHotties.com - Join for Free and meet fun loving equestrian singles online now!]

4. Top Ten Ways to Hurt Yourself While Surfing the Web. I cannot be the only one who’s fallen out of their chair when reading the latest Google News and the phone rings, right? Or that time I sprained my neck when… Nevermind, some things should be personal.

3. Top Ten Ways to lose the OC Internship Contest. You know, like sending pictures of yourself completely naked except a well-placed big red O.

2. Top Ten Ways to win the OC Internship Contest. You know, like sending pictures of yourself naked to all the Opera staff with a… oh, wait.

1. Top Ten Publicity Campaigns for Opera. You know, like painting the moon with a Big Red O or shaving the CEO’s head and painting a red O on it. Example

Enjoy my fellow OCers!