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Funny is as funny does.
December 11, 1998
~~~ NOTE FROM CHRIS: ~~~
You've Got Mail is a new romantic comedy starring
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. It was written and directed by
Nora Ephron, the writer/ director of "Sleepless in Seattle",
also a romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
Hmmm... does anyone else detect a pattern here?
The Top 14 Surprises in You've Got Mail
- Tom's love "poems" consist entirely of references to Star Trek, Dr. Who, and Dungeons & Dragons.
- Linda Tripp stars as Meg Ryan's backstabbing friend -- but Meg picks her as her bridesmaid anyway because standing next to Linda makes Meg look really, really, really good.
- Tom Hanks gets PantyCam on the first date!
- Planned rendezvous falls apart when a panic-stricken Tom Hanks deletes Meg's e-mail promising "Good Times" in the subject.
- Every time Tom sends Meg an e-mail joke, those bastards at Top5 pop up and demand credit.
- Poignant ending with Tom Hanks committing suicide after getting busy signals for three straight days.
- Tom & Meg meet in court during class action lawsuit against Disney and Microsoft for that trip they promised 13,000 people.
- Overheard at the cyberdeli: "I'll download what she's downloading."
- Paramedics called when Meg gets her butt stuck in the scanner.
- Touching scene in which Ryan and Hanks finally meet high atop the Empire State Building: Ryan turns out to be Wilfred Brimley and Hanks turns out to be Pauly Shore -- yet by this time, they're so in love that physical looks aren't impo
- Chinese translation of title: "I Love You Online; I Hate You in Person."
- Not all viruses are transmitted via modem: "You've got an STD!"
- Meg is startled to learn that Tom is just a pasty-skinned, socially maladjusted 12-year-old geek, not the virile, hunky Top 5 List contributor he claimed to be.
and the Number 1 Surprise in You've Got Mail...
- Tom Hanks' first-ever nude scene: You've Got Breasts!
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Selected from 132 submissions from 48 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY -- 1 (5th #1) email
- Jon Litfin, Columbus, OH -- 2 email
- Tim Blankenbaker, Washington, DC -- 3
- Lloyd Jacobson, Washington, DC -- 3
- Don Swain, Waterford, MI -- 3 email / Website
- David Kass, Queens, NY -- 3, 10
- Daniel Weckerly, Limerick, PA -- 4
- Don Horton, Sacramento, CA -- 5
- Rob Seulowitz, New York, NY -- 5 email
- Marsha Clodfelter, Corpus Christi, TX -- 6 email
- Yoram Puius, Bronx, NY -- 7 email
- Mark Schmidt, Santa Cruz, CA -- 8 email
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- 8, Topic email
- Carla Brandon, San Diego, CA -- 9 email
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL -- 11 Hall of Famer
- Ed Brooksbank, Sacramento, CA -- 12
- Ann Bartow, Dayton, OH -- 13
- Kim Moser, New York, NY -- 14 email
- Kevin Freels, Burbank, CA -- Honorable Mention list name email / Website
- Larry G. Hollister, Concord, CA -- Runner Up list name email / Website
- Brian Auten, whereabouts unknown -- Banner Tag
- Chris White, New York, NY -- List owner/editor Hall of Famer
- The Marvelettes, Inkster, MI -- Ambience
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