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June 15, 2007
~~~ NOTE FROM CHRIS: ~~~
It's Little Fiver Month!
Today's list was compiled by
Top5 Comics moderator Jennifer Ford.
Top5 Comics archives.
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The Top 13 Lessons Learned From Comic Books
- Never trust a girl who offers to be your holder for field goals.
- While there is no cure for the common cold, one can overcome death via cosmic rays, magical incantations, or convenient plot developments.
- Avoiding the unwashed on public transportation is easy: Just look for the stink lines.
- Girls seldom make passes at secret identities who wear glasses.
- The cost of super-battle clean-up inevitably falls to the taxpayers.
- If your manager uses flowery adjectives, stage-whispered asides, and/or confers with a weirdly misshapen assistant while explaining your new project, odds are you work for a supervillain. Double those odds if he lets off a &qu
- "I can communicate telepathically with sea creatures!" is a totally lame pick-up line.
- A supervillian just out of jail can, in a few days, assemble an operation which puts NASA's entire space program to shame.
- Erasing Betty's and Veronica's sweaters does *not* expose their breasts.
- Never build a nuclear power plant anywhere near a genetics lab.
- You can find out what your friends are thinking by reading the bubbles over their heads.
- With great power come really impractical outfits.
and the Number 1 Lesson Learned From Comic Books...
- No one wants a subscription to Grit.
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Selected from 91 submissions from 34 contributors.
Today's Top Five List authors were:
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA -- 1, 5 (83rd #1) Hall of Famer
- Joseph Prisco, Ithaca, NY -- 2, 12 Website
- David G. Scott, Kansas City, MO -- 3 Website
- Ed Smith, Chattanooga, TN -- 4 Hall of Famer
- David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA -- 6
- Chuck Brown, St. Stephen, NB, Canada -- 7
- Carl Knorr, Devo City, OH -- 8 Website / Hall of Famer
- Nathan C. Sherman, Bellevue, WA -- 9
- John Mozena, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI -- 10
- Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- 11 Website / Hall of Famer
- Tom Stoudt, Fort Washington, PA -- 13 Hall of Famer
- Donald Junter, New Haven, CT -- Banner Tag
- Jennifer Ford, Chicago, IL -- Moderator, Topic Website
- Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Hall of Famer
- Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tokyo, Japan -- Ambience (explanation)
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