The Persnickety Project's Year in Review - An Exercise in Shameful Self Promotion

Are you ready for some horn tootin?

So, we've been at this thing for something like 4 months, seems like the perfect time for a retrospective, doesn't it?  To make us feel slightly less like a used car salesmen, we forced The Mrs. to come up with her "Top 5 Favorite Posts" (we'd call it her "Fave Five" but that might draw a strongly worded letter from Chalres Barkley and Dwayne Wade) from the long and storied history of The Persnickety Project (don't be suprised if we do this next year and can only come up with 1 thing worth reposting).  Our loyal readers will probably recognize most of them but if you're anyone but those 3 people, take some time to see some of the brilliance you missed.

So join us in celebrating the most self-congratulatory holiday of all, New Year's ("What a great year I had.  I was just awesome.  Oh, and next year?  It's going to be even better." No it's not and you're a liar.) by checking out The Mrs. picks (Toot! Toot!).  We'll even do it "New Year's Rocking Eve" style (just try not to imagine Dick Clark doing the countdown, that's just too depressing):

5.  Things We Hate - Do They Know It's Christmas

She totally threw us a bone on this one because we were afraid our well researched, impeccably drafted attack on Band Aid might have gotten lost in the shuffle of the holiday season.  What's more likely is that everyone ignored it because ripping a 25 year old song is kinda lame.  To quote a random old person: "Six to one, half a dozen to another."

4.  Hot Stove Predictions That Are Already Wrong

The Mrs. is a sucker for anything involving baseball and this one was particularly appealing because it held promises of Cliff Lee joining her Yankees.  We get bonus points for actually getting a few of them right.  As they say: "Even the sun shines on a dogs balls once in awhile."  (Nobody says that.  Is that even a saying?)

3.  Holiday Gift Guide to Gift Giving - Part Deuce

Not only was this one super helpful for all you shoppers out there but The Mrs. was particularly fond of the focus on extremely expensive things (apparently she takes this as a sign that, despite our continued failure to purchase them, we are aware expensive things do exist.)  She also preferred Part Deuce over Part 1 because we left Crate and Barrel alone this time.  She's very protective of certain things.

2.  Thoughts on Eric LeGrande

Like Adam Sandler in "Punch Drunk Love" this was our rare attempt at showing our serious side.

1.  Things We Hate - Kids Safety Alert Signs

According to our better half this is the funniest thing we've written (high praise, we know!!).  After reading it you won't be surprised to find out we don't have children.

Do you feel dirty yet?  We do.

Still, that's not going to stop us from throwing out an honorable mention to our "Things We Hate - That Creepy Geico Commercial", which somehow managed to get 180+ pageviews (this can only be a result of accidental googling).  Also, for what it's worth our personal favorites are: (1) Train Blech our attempt to point out the idiocy of a couple of Train songs which stands out primarily because it was our first real attempt at writing something "original" and not just killing dumb commenters; and (2) "Stupid Commenter Beatdown - You Got Your Hives in My Peanut Butter" because we got to make fun of people with food allergies.

Definitely time for a shower now.  Thanks to everyone for reading and for the 30 of you willing to put your reputations on the line and sign up as followers, we are forever indebted to you.  In closing we'll ask (not rhetorically) what where your favorites? Even if they're all shit remember it's relative.  And if you have a fave, why not pass it along to your large groups of very cool, trendsetting friends?  You're an influential person, why not influence people to read The Project.  Not to get all Sally Struthers on you but WE NEED YOUR HELP.