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Great, Now Dallas Is One Of The Least Fit Cities In The Nation

By Anna Merlan Thu., May 24 2012 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Lists

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These people are clearly freaks of nature.
In addition to being smutty and un-hip, the DFW area is now ranking way down at number 47 on the American College of Sports Medicine's Fitness Index. And the bad news is that unlike some of the other lists we've been bitching about lately (looking at you, perv index) this one is backed up with actual science, using data from places like the Centers For Disease Control and the Trust For Public Land. It makes a number of good points, albeit ones you probably already know well: Many Dallasites can't walk or bike to work, and a lot of us don't have access to farmers markets, public parks or rec centers.

The good news: tennis courts. We're good on those.

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Now Dallas is the 15th "Smuttiest" City

By Anna Merlan Tue., May 8 2012 at 9:01 AM
Categories: Lists, Media, We Apologize in Advance for This Particular Item

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Dallas may be inhospitable to hipsters, but we're apparently a city filled with porn enthusiasts: Men's Health recently ranked Dallas 15th in a list of the 100 "smuttiest" American cities (Orlando won. Those perverts.)

MH based its rankings on the number of adult DVDs purchased, rented or streamed, square footage of "adult entertainment" stores, Google searches for porn and "percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households."

But before we break out the celebratory porn, let's take a moment to talk about bullshit city-ranking lists, shall we?

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What It's Like to Live in Plano, According to The Internet's List Makers. Everyone Loves Lists.

By Anna Merlan Thu., Jul. 21 2011 at 12:08 PM
Categories: Lists, Stuff and Nonsense
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That baby is actually 45 years old.
​Perhaps you heard that Plano was recently named the 12th longest-living city in the country by the Daily Beast. But what you may not know is that a whole bunch of other listicles ranking places based on their General Pleasantness have spotlighted the 'burb. The results are mostly positive, occasionally confusing and always deeply scientific, we are sure. We have read them all, and now we can tell you authoritatively exactly what it's like to live in Plano.More »
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Top 10 Mayor Tom Photos of '09

By Sam Merten Tue., Dec. 29 2009 at 12:15 PM
Categories: Lists, Photos Worth Sharing

Mayor Tom Leppert isn't an easy interview to snag these days. At least, not for us here at the Observer. But that doesn't stop us from catching a glimpse of the man whenever we get the chance, and, of course, capturing snapshots along the way. Yup, we've developed quite a fondness for the unique and inspired Leppert photo here at Unfair Park HQ, which is why I bring you another year's worth of my favorites.

Feel free to chime in and provide links to ones you feel I've left out, and let's get a caption contest started while I try to convince Robert to dig up something for a prize.

10. Leppert poses with the iPhones he's giving away to CEOs in an effort to entice them to move their companies to downtown Dallas.

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Kimberly Thorpe
Sometimes Leppert's eyes look like lasers. This would be one of those times.

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