The list for September 9, 1996
The Top 16 Reasons Last Night’s Date Was a Failure
- Two words: Crying Game
- Putting chopsticks in your nose doesn’t go over so well since you hit the big four-oh.
- You woke up in a tu-tu, a bra and scuba flippers – but where the hell is your hockey mask?
- Losing that Happy Meal prize to your date in an arm-wrestling contest kind of put a damper on the rest of the evening.
- You roll over and find a naked Ed Asner next to you.
- You brought flowers and candy, she brought a lawyer and a restraining order.
- O.J. Simpson mask definitely not a big hit.
- Her job as an Elvis impersonator didn’t bother you until you discovered the sideburns are real.
- You didn’t feel the earth move, but you learned an awful lot about life insurance.
- Severe paper cuts from that popcorn-box trick forced you to go to the emergency room alone.
- Everything was going great until the conversation shifted to rejected names for hurricanes.
- The only tongue you got was at the deli counter.
- A generally accepted rule of thumb is that your date should have the same number of digits after the date as before.
- Your date’s position as environmental spokesperson really kept you from enjoying your porpoise sandwich.
- You were only being honest, Gene Hackman in drag *is* arousing
And the Number 1 Reason Last Night’s Date Was a Failure…
- Dinner reservations at House of Beans.
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CREDITS
Selected from 87 submissions by 34 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Cathie Walker, Victoria, BC, Cananda — 1 > (1st #1!)
- Jennifer Ritzinger, Seattle, WA — 2
- LeMel Hebert-Williams, San Francisco, CA — 3
- Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA — 4
- Yoram Puius, Bronx, NY — 5
- George Olson, Colorado Springs, CO — 6
- Meredith Ogden, Ithaca, NY — 6
- Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA — 6
- Ken Shinodo, Keizer, OR — 6, 16
- Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 6
- Marc Cukier, Toronto, Canada — 6
- Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 7
- Jennifer Hart, Arlington, VA — 8
- Dee Anne Phillips, Shreveport, LA — 9
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 10
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 12
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 13
- Rob Winchell, Arlington, MA — 14
- Michael Wolf, Brookline, MA — 15
- Garrett Mettler, San Luis Obispo, CA — Topic
- Chris White, NY, NY — Listmeister
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