No-No’s at Your Office Holiday Party

The list for December 20, 1996
The Top 15 No-No’s at Your Office Holiday Party

  1. Bragging about your 48 game Solitaire winning streak.

  2. If it’s a leper colony party, no “Pull my finger” gags.

  3. Offering the babe in Human Resources a little “Christmas Goose.”

  4. Taking aim and barking “My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!” fails to amuse CEO standing at next urinal.

  5. Scotch = good, crack = bad.

  6. No one, and I mean NO ONE, gives a damn about your stupid Top 5 entries.

  7. Mistaking the boss’s comment about favoring a joint venture as an invitation to “burn one down.”

  8. Asking your boss if she’s been recently surgically “enhanced.”

  9. Introducing your boss to your wife with, “This is the reason I’m impotent half the time.”

  10. Making your own tinsel by running your secretary’s silver lame gown through the office shredder.

  11. Baiting office toady by waving mistletoe over boss’s butt.

  12. Sure, “Buttcheek Santa” is funny when *Jim Carrey* does it.

  13. Toasting marshmallows on the Menorah.

  14. “Tickle Me CEO”
And the Number 1 No-No at Your Office Holiday Party…

  1. Hiring unknown Peruvian waiters to bring the hors-d’oeuvres.
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CREDITS
Selected from 88 submissions from 33 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 1, 8 (3rd #1)
  • Jay Allen, Santa Barbara, CA — 2
  • Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 3
  • David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 4
  • Greg Sadosuk, Fairfax, VA — 5
  • Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 6
  • John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 7
  • Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 9
  • Lloyd Jacobson, Washington, DC — 10
  • Jeff Downey, Raleigh, NC — 10
  • Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 11
  • Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 12
  • Tom Louderback, Breckenridge, CO — 13
  • Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA — 14
  • Greg Pettit, Houston, TX — 15
  • Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — Topic
  • Jennifer Ritzinger, Seattle, WA — Topic
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