Worst Inventions of The Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”

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The list for June 21, 1996
The Top 17 Worst Inventions of The
Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”

  1. Seaweed Schnapps

  2. The Monkey-Powered Snow Blower

  3. BETA video format (Oops! That’s the worst invention from the professors at SONY)

  4. The coconut shell ‘WonderBra’

  5. Cream Of Jellyfish soup

  6. Two words: Coconut Zima

  7. http://www.gilligan.org

  8. Line dancing

  9. Windows ’65

  10. The salt-water bidet

  11. Silk preservative that prevents slinky dresses from eventually decaying and falling from the body

  12. Potion that forces Ginger to take a three-hour nap… a three-hour nap.

  13. Dinghy enlargement procedure

  14. In famous banned episode, made Ginger a “little buddy” of her own, using a petrified banana and parts from that portable radio.

  15. The Common-Sense Plot Eliminator

  16. Ginger Repellent
And the Number 1 Worst Invention of The Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”…

  1. Thurston Howell IV
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CREDITS
Selected from 128 submissions by 43 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 1
  • Mike Manion, Lexington, KY — 2
  • Joel McClure, Sterling Heights, MI — 2
  • Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 3
  • Dave George, Arlington, VA — 3, 7, 16
  • Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 4
  • Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 5
  • Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 6
  • Bill Burnett, Lexington, MA — 7
  • Pete Brittingham, Titusville, NJ — 8
  • Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA — 9, 14, Topic
  • Chris McKenna, Malibu, CA — 10
  • Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 11
  • Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 12
  • Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA — 12
  • Randy Wohl, Ma’ale Adumim, Israel — 13
  • Jim Louderback, New York, NY — 14
  • John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 14
  • Perry Friedman, Menlo Park, CA — 14
  • Christopher Troise, New York, NY — 15
  • Jeff Johnson, Daly City, CA — 17
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