Topics That Would Get the Top 5 List in Hot Water (Part I)

The list for November 13, 1997
NOTE FROM CHRIS:
We here at Top5 are constantly walking a tightrope, on one hand trying to be funny *and* creative, and on the other hand trying not to be on the receiving end of any lawsuits and to keep our corporate sponsors, Windows Sources & Ziff-Davis, happy.

Consequently, there are certain topics we avoid like the plague. Today and tomorrow, in a 2-part list, we’d like to share some of those off-limits topics with you, our beloved readers.
The Top 15 Topics That Would Get
The Top 5 List in Hot Water
(Part I)

  1. Reasons Our Readers Suck

  2. Biblical Euphemisms for Masturbation

  3. Reasons the Middle East Still Doesn’t Realize after 5,000 Years that Fighting Won’t Solve Anything

  4. Chapters Left Out of “The Satanic Verses”

  5. Ways to Mispronounce “Ziff-Davis”

  6. Signs You’re a Hairy-Legged Feminist

  7. Signs Your Creeping Homophobia is an Indication of Your Subconscious Attraction to Rush Limbaugh

  8. Ways to Use the Word “Newt” to Describe Genitalia

  9. Things Pauly Shore Shouted as He Dressed Up as a Scout in a Dress and Gunned Down a Roomful of Amway Reps and Promise Keepers

  10. Signs Chris White’s NAMBLA Membership is Up for Renewal

  11. Ways to Tell if Your Pet is Gay

  12. Uncredited Top 5 Lists Used by Playboy Magazine, Like the One on Page 21 of Their December Issue

  13. Uses for a Throw Rug Made From Siamese Cat Fur

  14. Martha Stewart Dildo Decorating Tips
And the Number 1 Topic That Would Get The Top 5 List in Hot Water…

  1. Signs that the Top 5 List is a Front for Laundering Drug Money Though Offshore Banks, a Fact that is Totally Lost on Those Losers At the IRS
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CREDITS
Selected from 210 submissions from 53 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO — 1 (6th #1)
  • Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 2
  • Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 3, 14
  • Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 3, 6
  • Marsha Clodfelter, Corpus Christi, TX — 4
  • Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 5, 6
  • Joshua Wachs, Cambridge, MA — 6
  • Don Swain, Pontiac, MI — 7, 9
  • Rob Wells, Paris, France — 8
  • Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY — 10
  • Sue Prifogle, Rushville, IN — 11
  • Matt Diamond, Holland, PA — 12
  • Perry Friedman, Menlo Park, CA — 12
  • Christopher Troise, New York, NY — 13
  • David Hyatt, New York, NY — 15
  • LeMel Hebert-Williams, San Francisco, CA — Banner Tag
  • Troy Roberson, Birmingham, AL — Topic
  • Corduroy 9, Laurel, MD — Ambience
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