Signs Your List Moderator Is Getting Old

The list for July 21, 1998
The Top 20 Signs Your List
Moderator Is Getting Old

  1. Now edits the list using only a Kraftmatic Adjustable Bed and The Clapper.

  2. Ambience – Steve & Edie

  3. Send your submissions in by 4 pm and receive the Early Bird Special.

  4. He sits through “Jurassic Park” shaking his head, mumbling, “No, that’s not how it was at all…”

  5. Wants to replace daily TOP5 humor list with daily TOP5 senior citizen discount list.

  6. Today’s topic? “Top 5 Retirement Homes for Top 5 List Moderators.”

  7. Every Monday, the same topic: “Top 5 Ways to Get Those Damn Kids Off of My Lawn!”

  8. Keeps trying to trade ad space on Top5 list for free meals at Denny’s.

  9. Today’s Topic: “Top 5 Signs Your Local Girlscout Leader is a Humorless Old Bag” (Oops! That’s a sign your list moderator is getting *bold*.)

  10. Power hungry contributors, forseeing an upcoming retirement, attempt to popularize themselves by organizing brown-nose birthday surprises.

  11. Ninth “Matlock” topic this month.

  12. Yesterday’s list had its left turn signal on for 6 hours.

  13. Stops using Viagra jokes in his lists because they just hit too close to home.

  14. Ninth #1 in a row for new contributor Angela Lansbury.

  15. Fondly remembers the old days when they distributed the Top5 List via coded jungle drums.

  16. One day he’s convinced himself that his cubicle job is temporary; the next day he’s getting a gold watch and a Xerox of his naked buttocks at his retirement party.

  17. New hair… and you ain’t exactly in puberty, Chester.

  18. Yesterday: A bright young man with dreams of becoming one of the Internet’s best comedy list moderators, because if he can bring a smile to just one person’s face every day, then he’s done his job. Today: Just old and bitter.

  19. Have you noticed there’s no Top 5 Lists skewering the AARP? Coincidence? I think not.
And the Number 1 Sign Your List Moderator Is Getting Old…

  1. “Top 5 Signs You’re Losing Your Memor… umm… Top 5 Signs….”
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CREDITS
Selected from 142 submissions from 38 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • Kevin Freels, Sun Valley, CA — 1 (5th #1)
  • Barbara Rush, Tulsa, OK — 2
  • David Kass, Brooklyn, NYorida — 2
  • Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 2 (Hall of Famer)
  • Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 3
  • LeMel Hebert-Williams, S.F.,CA — 4 (Hall of Famer)
  • Peter Bauer, Rochester, NY — 5
  • Matt Chaput, Calgary, Alberta, Canada — 6, 9
  • Beth Kohl Feinerman, Chicago, IL — 7, 18
  • Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 7
  • Geoff Brown, Farmington Hills, MI — 8
  • Hizzoner Ken Shinodo, Keizer, OR — 8
  • Andrew Thomas, Omaha, NE — 8
  • Mike Wolf, Brookline, MA — 8
  • Peg Warner, Exeter, NH — 8
  • Larry G. Hollister, Concord, CA — 8
  • Craig Stacey, Lisle, IL — 9, 20
  • Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC — 10, 19
  • Lisa Oliver, London, England — 11
  • Keith Martin, Atlanta, GA — 12, 14
  • Ken Woo, Encinitas, CA — 13, 16 (Hall of Famer)
  • Kim Moser, New York, NY — 15
  • Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 17
  • Dave Henry, Slidell, LA — Banner Tag
  • Lotsa Contribs — Topic
  • Geoff Brown, Farmington Hills, MI — Today’s List Moderator
  • Beth Kohl Feinerman, Chicago, IL — Today’s List Moderator
  • Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — Today’s List Moderator
  • Chris White, New York, NY — Birthday guy
  • Rolling Stones, London, England — Ambience
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