The list for June 28, 1996
The Top 18 Over-Rated Super Powers
- The Power to Assume the Shape of Captain Kangaroo
- Super Honesty
- The Ability to See Through Very Dirty Glass
- Anal Retentivity (the ability to alphabetize stacks of CDs in no time flat)
- Waldo-Locating Sense
- Ability to Scratch Brain Through Nose
- Bowels of Steel
- The Ability to Refold Maps Properly
- 30/20 Hindsight
- Catwoman’s Super Tongue-Bath
- Heatrash Vision
- Super Purple Force Field (actually just a bug zapper light emitted from upzipped fly)
- Ability to Leap Tall Lattes in a Single Bound
- PG13-Ray Vision
- The Ability to Have Multiple Orgasms (Oh sure, it’s fun, but try saving your parents from a mugger with it.)
- The former Soviet Union
- The Power to Produce a Shiny Nickel from Behind Children’s Ears
And the Number 1 Over-Rated Super Power…
- Wonder Vision!
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CREDITS
Selected from 128 submissions by 44 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Pete Brittingham, Titusville, NJ — 1 (First #1!)
- David Hyatt, New York, NY — 2
- Gayle Ehrenman, New York, NY — 3
- Matthew Diamond, Holland, PA — 4
- Perry Friedman, Menlo Park, CA — 5
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 6
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 7
- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA — 8
- Sterling Smith, Houston, TX — 9
- Larry Baum, La Jolla, CA — 10
- Kris Kettner, Fond du Lac, WI — 11 (Rookie!)
- Joel McClure, Sterling Heights, MI — 12
- John Hering, Alexandria, VA — 13
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 14
- Gerard McDonald, New York, NY — 15
- Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA — 16, Topic
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 16
- Duncan Carling, San Francisco, CA — 17
- Jennifer Hart, Arlington, VA — 18
- Dave George, Arlington, VA — Topic, Contributor’s Creed
- Chris White, New York, NY — Listmeister
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