Even More Minor Milestones

By Jeff on Oct 16, 2007 in Lists | Comments

Every day milestones are reached but sometimes go unnoticed. Here are some lesser known yet still impressive events we caught using The Wigometer 3000™, our super-powered, pop-culture-detecting radar system.

200th time this week someone told you, "You must watch Mad Men!"
1,000th time today Kanye West has impressed himself
500th Thriller group dance routine performed this month by wedding party who still think it's so very original
10,000th fake question posed by a fake reader in Parade magazine
700th opportunity seized by Al Sharpton
100th product in your supermarket featuring Rachael Ray's fat face
10,000th time "Let's do a spoof Mac ad and put it on YouTube!" was heard in an ad agency conference room
5th copy sold
50,000th story planted on Digg.com by a splog
4,000th spiritual geek matched up with timid nerd on eHarmony.com
300th grainy, dark, out-of-focus surveillance photo made crystal clear with the simple click of a mouse on crime show by snippy female computer whiz
15,000th Christopher Walken impression done by a hack stand-up comedian
25th episode of "Lost" featuring lots of boring stuff from the past jam packed between two minutes of actual, plot-advancing action
2,500th mention of "Tyra" by Tyra on Tyra's show
2,000,000,000th occurrence of God personally helping an athlete or celebrity win something
1,000th "Next Big Thing" declared at SXSW/CMJ this year
500th stolen joke updated with the word "beaner" by Carlos Mencia
800,000th personal blog that has not been updated since February 2006
1,000,000th stock photo showing a laptop screen pointed at by three ethnically-diverse and smiling business people
10th rebate check actually sent in and payment promptly received
5,000,000th piece of chintzy retro crap bought on eBay by someone who immediately regrets the purchase
3,000th title in the "Dummies" series of books hit the shelf: "Fucking for Dummies"
20,000th day in a row Prince Charles has not had a real job
500,000th deep arterial laceration of a human hand while trying to open a product packaged in that sharp, hard-plastic shrink wrap
50,000th "Goodfellas" poster hung on a Rutgers University dorm room wall
300,000th rock-hard erection guaranteed in your inbox
1,000th use of the word "percentile" by your new-parent friend
750,000th spin of "Sweet Child O' Mine" on Philadelphia radio