The list for August 19, 1998
The Top 13 Rejected Global
Disaster Movie Premises
Disaster Movie Premises
- "Mitzi the Kitten Goes Postal"
- "Armageddon ’98" — A giant chunk of Bill Gates’s wallet breaks loose and threatens to destroy the earth!
- "Starring Kevin Costner!"
- A gigantic bolt of inter-stellar chintz hurtles toward to earth threatening to drape the entire planet in *last* year’s color.
- "Coffee Shortage!"
- Mysterious geological forces speed up the Earth’s rotation, flinging everybody off into space — except a group of research scientists in Antarctica, who just get incredibly dizzy.
- "Acnephobia" — Where will the next one pop up?!
- "Starbuck Wars" — Luke Warmwater uses the Dark Roast to save the galaxy from over-priced espresso
- "Flat Grape Fanta!"
- "Parmageddon" — Desperate chefs race to prepare a mammoth bowl of pasta to thwart a mile-wide cheese boulder hurtling toward Earth.
- "The Day the List Stood Still"
- "Killer Bugs" — Handsome computer programmers endure 12 hour work days, risking Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, to save Earth (and a group of buxom supermodels) from deadly bugs from Galaxy Y2K.
And the Number 1 Rejected Global Disaster Movie Premise…
- Fran Drescher in: "Megaphone!"
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CREDITS
Selected from 87 submissions from 32 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC — 1, 11 (10th #1)
- Carla Brandon, San Diego, CA — 2, 6
- Kevin Freels, Burbank, CA — 3, Topic
- John Treusch, Burlington, NJ — 4
- Chris Gleason, Gaithersburg, MD — 5
- Vickie Neilson, Carlsbad, CA — 7
- Larry G. Hollister, Concord, CA — 8, Runner Up List Name
- Mark Weiss, Austin, TX — 9
- Martell Stroup, Boston, MA — 10
- Jason Anderson, Birmingham, AL — 12
- Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 13
- Tom White, Missouri State(?) — Banner tag
- Chris White, New York, NY — List owner/editor
- The Years, Missouri City, TX — Ambience
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