June 12, 2003
The Top 15 Backhanded Compliments
(Part II)
- "That's a terrific jacket! I didn't even know they made them like that anymore!"
- "You have the greatest untapped potential of anyone I've ever dated."
- "Relax, sweetie -- your sexual performance was perfectly adequate."
- "You're very creative. I bet you're very popular with your dungeons & dragons friends."
- "How on earth did you learn to Macarena so well?"
- "Your plastic surgeon has such a delightful sense of humor!"
- "Yeah, but in four years, he'll be just another college graduate looking for a job. *You'll* be a Home Depot assistant manager with four years of work experience."
- "Good things *do* come in small packages, dear. And in short durations."
- "Don't think of it as pyromania; you just really know how to light up a room!"
- "How persistent you are! Most people would have given up and called someone competent by this point."
- "Those blackheads form the cutest pattern!"
- "Captain, congratulations for landing back on the carrier with your bomb load completely intact!"
- "You're smart to do your laundry on Saturday night, when everyone else is out."
- "Congratulations, Ryan. Your essay makes a convincing argument for a sweeping overhaul of our public educational system."
and the Number 1 Backhanded Compliment...
- "Wow, that is one deep nostril!"
Selected from 91 submissions from 37 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Tom Stoudt, Fort Washington, PA -- 1 (9th #1)
- Larry Hollister, Concord, CA -- 2, 8
- Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- 3
- Glenn Marcus, Washington, DC -- 4
- Pat Sajak, Los Angeles, CA -- 5, 10
- Martin Bredeck, Hybla Valley, VA -- 6
- Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA -- 7
- Andy Ihnatko, Boston, MA -- 9
- Donald Junter, New Haven, CT -- 11, Banner Tag
- Wayne Kierstead, Clackamas, OR -- 12
- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA -- 13, 14
- Chuck Sawyer, Rochester, NY -- 15
- David W. James, Los Angeles, CA -- Topic
- Joseph Moore, Concord, CA -- Runner Up list name
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- Honorable Mention list name
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor
- Collective Soul, Stockbridge, GA -- Ambience (explanation)
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