February 26, 2001
The Top 15 Secret Service Pet Peeves
- The earpiece inevitably starts picking up NPR during a Cap's game.
- No one lets you forget the time you jumped the first lady when that news van backfired.
- Gun smoke tends to irritate the eyes as you're ventilating loonies at the White House gate.
- Two months in, and you're already sick of barbecue.
- When Cheney wears his "I'm with Stupid" sweatshirt and gives away the President's code name.
- That friggin' "Taking a Bullet 101" class at the academy is a bitch!
- Now that Clinton's gone, it's harder to explain to the wife how that cheap perfume smell got in your clothes.
- Blockbuster's always out of stock whenever you get the urge to rent the Zapruder film.
- "Mr. President, if you don't stop kicking the Vice President, I'm going to turn this car around!"
- Laura Bush's hips keep blocking the line of sight.
- It never fails -- just before the cute waitress gives you her number, somebody takes a pot shot at the President.
- No overtime for doing all that furniture moving last month.
- New President "Howdy Doody" doesn't have much of a sense of humor about this whole nickname thing.
- Always get stuck jogging behind Dick Cheney with the electro-shock paddles.
and the Number 1 Secret Service Pet Peeve...
- Bullets hurt!
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Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD -- 1 (20th #1) Email / Hall of Famer
- Reid Kerr, Carthage, TX -- 2, 4 Email / Website
- Jeffrey Anbinder, New York, NY -- 3 Email / Website
- Doug Finney, Houston, TX -- 5 Email
- Fran Fruit, Winnetka, IL -- 6, 7
- Paul Paternoster, Los Altos, CA -- 8 Email / Hall of Famer
- Jason Anderson, Birmingham, AL -- 9 Email
- Keith Martin, Atlanta, GA -- 10 Email
- Slick Sharkey, Miami, FL -- 11 Hall of Famer
- Pam Pickard, North Canton, OH -- 12
- Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA -- 13
- J. Hutter, San Francisco, CA -- 14
- Charles Gulledge, Richardson, TX -- 15
- Jeff Rabinowitz, Wilkes-Barre, PA -- Topic Email
- Jim Griffith, Sunnyvale, CA -- Banner Tag
- Larry Hollister, Concord, CA -- RU list name Email / Website / Hall of Famer
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA -- List moderator, HM name Email / Hall of Famer
- Chris White, Irvine, CA -- List owner/editor Email / Hall of Famer
- The Dead Kennedys, San Francisco, CA -- Ambience (explanation)
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