The list for January 23, 1998
The Top 15 Signs Martha Stewart
Planned Your Tailgate Party
Planned Your Tailgate Party
- Your buddy Hal’s puke has a parsley sprig garnish.
- Every brewski served with a little paper umbrella.
- Festive doilies made from old Ace bandages — *and* they protect the finish on your RV.
- Asking what the spread is gets you recipe for goose liver pate.
- Each guest gets own pig and tanning instructions to make their own football.
- On the menu: Frommage de Tete!
- Life-size potato salad sculpture of John Elway is so tasty, Reggie White eats an entire leg.
- "Hot wings" are all attached to angel figurines.
- "Dammit! I dipped my low-salt, blue corn, tortilla chip in the friggin’ potpourri again!"
- Helmet-shaped bean dip bowl smells suspiciously of Ben-Gay.
- "Bud Bowl" played with porcelain Hummel Figures.
- Needlepoint doilies beneath barf buckets.
- Everywhere you look, well dressed white folk sipping Bud Dry from conch shells.
- Big-ass doily under the keg.
And the Number 1 Sign Martha Stewart Planned Your Tailgate Party…
- Mango-ginger truffles in sight: 175. Twinkies in sight: 0.
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CREDITS
Selected from 89 submissions from 33 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Bo Williams, Huntsville, AL — 1 (1st #1!)
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 2
- Don Swain, Pontiac, MI — 3, 9
- Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC — 4, 5, 10
- Matt Loiselle, Detroit, MI — 4
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 4
- Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 4
- Larry G. Hollister, Concord, CA — 6, 13
- Mark Schmidt, Santa Cruz, CA — 7, 8
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 9
- Marsha Clodfelter, Corpus Christi, TX — 11
- Denis Rubin, Los Angeles, CA — 12
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 13
- Daniel Weckerly, Limerick, PA — 14
- Jennifer Markes, West Hollywood, CA — 15
- Doug Johnson, Santa Cruz, CA — Topic
- Larry Mills, Oneonta, NY — Banner Tag
- Chris White, New York, NY — List owner/editor
- The Beatles, Liverpool, England — Ambience
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