Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Top 10 List

This holiday season, Trip Advisor put out a press release listing the 10 Quirkiest New Year's Celebrations. This release was picked up by many papers (and web sites), plus there were a few wire stories widely circulated, which were also based largely on this press release. What all this means is that this current top 10 list has pushed other results out of the top of Google searches, making other celebrations harder to find.

Even though I am only further reducing the range of searches, I do feel that it is necessary to also list these 10 celebrations here. The criteria for choosing them appears to be something silly drops (which in many cases is the only quirky thing about the celebration) and someone can write a cheeky headline about it.

1. Key West, Florida: conch, drag queen, or pirate wench
2. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: "marshmallow" Peep
3. Port Clinton, Ohio: walleye
4. Mount Olive, North Carolina: pickle
5. Elmore, Ohio: sausage
6. Lebanon, Pennsylvania: bologna
7. New Orleans, Louisiana: Gumbo Pot
8. Easton, Maryland: crab
9. Plymouth, Wisconsin: cheese
10. Raleigh, North Carolina: acorn

As these celebrations happened tomorrow, I may choose to focus on these or others. I also found a new site called Ball Drop USA that has additional items to add to my master list.

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