October 26, 2000
The Top 13 Least Useful Skills for Impressing Men
- Making football picks based on observations that teams with "winter" colors always defeat teams with "summer" colors.
- Ability to distinguish a Giorgio from a Donna Karan at forty paces.
- Book-learnin'.
- The skill required to explain, in excruciating detail and at great length, exactly why that nice but unemployed guy Robert who used to date her sister Alice is wrong for her former college roommate Jalene, even though there's some mutual attraction.
- Hair-trigger gag reflex.
- Finally determining how to permanently get off Victoria's Secret's catalog mailing list.
- Ability to talk to animals -- but only animals that also insist you rent "The Story of Us."
- Ability to competently oversee the entire U.S. Department of Justice.
- Being able to insert jokes about the United Nations and Ted Koppel's hair while commenting on football plays.
- Skill in putting the words "you", "wrong" and "are" together in a single sentence.
- That uncanny Celine Dion impersonation.
- Sucking the paint off a picket fence through a chrome hubcap.
and the Number 1 Least Useful Skill for Impressing Men...
- Acting like a whore in the kitchen and Betty Crocker in bed.
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Selected from 143 submissions from 51 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA -- 1, 2 (29th #1) Email / Hall of Famer
- Kevin Wickart, Normal, IL -- 3 Email / Website
- Ken Shinodo, Bend, OR -- 4
- Beth Kohl, Chicago, IL -- 5
- Ann Bartow, Bartow, FL -- 6
- Eric Lipton, Washington, DC -- 7
- Steve Hurd, Oakland, CA -- 8 Hall of Famer
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA -- 9 Email / Hall of Famer
- Joseph Moore, Concord, CA -- 10 Email
- Jim Rosenberg, Greensboro, NC -- 11 Email / Website / Hall of Famer
- Sue Prifogle Otte, Rushville, IN -- 12 Email
- Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- 13 Email / Website
- Peter Rogers, Austin, TX -- Topic
- Tristan Fabriani, Passaic, NJ -- Banner Tag Email
- Larry Hollister, Concord, CA -- RU list name Email / Website / Hall of Famer
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA -- HM list name Email / Hall of Famer
- Mark Niebuhr, Minneapolis, MN -- List moderator
- Chris White, Irvine, CA -- List owner Email / Hall of Famer
- George Fletcher and the Handsome Men -- Ambience (explanation)
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