The list for October 29, 1997
The Top 16 Ways to Commit Suicide
After the Stock Market Crash
After the Stock Market Crash
- Sit under Hong Kong Finance Minister’s window. Wait.
- Rub together the two pennies you still have left to create a spark to ignite the alcohol vapors emanating from you.
- The “Death of a Thousand Self-Inflicted Paper Cuts” from worthless stock certificates.
- Show up at the Million Woman March in your Al Jolson makeup.
- Go to White House. Place life-size cutouts of Chinese millionaires in lawn. Stand behind door and wait.
- Enter the nearest Starbucks and declare that you’ve been appointed Chief of the Slacker Police.
- Five words: Dr. Kevorkian, Certified Financial Planner
- Borrow $50,000 from Vinnie The Shark and invest it all in John Denver Aeronautics.
- Find Jim Harbaugh, then tell him he’s a weenie *and* his stocks tanked.
- Hold a “Communists for the Deportation of Livan Hernandez” meeting at your Miami apartment.
- Tie yourself to Marv Albert’s career.
- Jump from the top of Janet Reno.
- Urinate into the Times Square electronic stock ticker.
- Sneak up quietly behind a bear, carefully place both hands on its rear haunches, and attempt to get some eye-for-an-eye revenge, if you know what I mean.
- 1)Chair; 2)Chains; 3)Eyelid props; 4)The Jenny McCarthy Show.
And the Number 1 Way to Commit Suicide After the Stock Market Crash…
- Ponder the fact that Gates the Geek won’t even miss the $1.75 *billion* he lost today, until your head implodes.
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CREDITS
Selected from 99 submissions from 40 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Paul Lara, Temple, TX — 1 (2nd #1)
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 2, 12
- Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC — 2, 5, 10
- Don Swain, Pontiac, MI — 3
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 4
- Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA — 6
- Jay Allen, Long Beach, CA — 7
- Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN — 7
- Jeff Johnson, Daly City, CA — 8
- R.M. Weiner, Somerville, MA — 9
- Tony Hill, Minneapolis, MN — 11
- Peter Bauer, Rochester, NY — 13
- Dave Henry, Slidell, LA — 14
- Peg Warner, Derry, NH — 14
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 15
- Natasha Filipovic, New York, NY — 16
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — Banner Tag
- Marsha Clodfelter, Corpus Christi, TX — Topic
- Mitch Patterson, Atlanta, GA — Topic
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — Topic
- Crash Test Dummies, Winnipeg, Manitoba — Ambience
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