The list for July 30, 1997
The Top 16 Mistakes Made
on the MIR Space Station
on the MIR Space Station
- Spacesuits made by Kathie Lee’s plant in Siberia.
- Freeze-dried lard sandwiches never as good as the real thing.
- Souvenir shop takes up way too much room.
- Forgot to set the VCR in Minsk to tape “Breshnev Hills 90210.”
- American’s hairdryer keeps shorting out the Russian life-support systems.
- Replacing hydraulic fluid with Borscht seemed cost effective at the time.
- Sending up Duplo blocks to make repairs on a Lego structure.
- The American brought “ALIEN” video along, and now Dimitri is having trouble sleeping.
- Shouldn’t have let Yeltsin drive the docking craft.
- Boy, did the kaka hit the fan when those personal waste containment system O-rings failed.
- Flaming Stoli shots behave a bit differently in a weightless, high-oxygen environment.
- “Dammit, Jimski! I’m a doctor, not a cosmonaut!!”
- No real need for doggie door.
- Should’ve accepted that ride home from Moose and Squirrel when they had the chance.
- “Heat-resistant outer layer” installed by Earl Scheib for $99.
And the Number 1 Mistake Made on the MIR Space Station…
- Every third orbit, Cosmonauts get ‘faced and try to whiz on Germany.
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CREDITS
Selected from 108 submissions from 40 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 1 (8th #1)
- Kim Moser, New York, NY — 2
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 3
- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA — 4
- Steve Maybo, Carlsbad, CA — 5
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 6, 11
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 7, 11
- David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 8
- Jesse Garon, San Francisco, CA — 9
- Martell Stroup, Reno, NV — 10
- Chris Gleason, Germantown, MD — 11
- Greg Sadosuk, Fairfax, VA — 12
- Kevin Freels, Sun Valley, CA — 13, Topic
- Tony Hill, Minneapolis, MN — 14
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 15
- Sue Prifogle, Rushville, IN — 16
- Tom Beard, somewhere out there — Banner tag
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