Lawrence Ranked #310 on Super Top List, Riots Ensue
Friday, June 27, 2008
Hello, ladies. (And gentlemen.) I have a proposition. No more "top" lists, ever.
I keep hearing about this TitleTown USA stuff, some contest ESPN is holding to determine which title-winning town is the best, I guess. Some national magazine tells us the Replay is the best bar in Kansas, another says Lawrence isn't or is one of the best rock towns in America, U.S. News & World Report says KU is better or worse than it was last year ... and none of it, of course, means anything.
Well, nevermind. Maybe I'm just being cranky. Let the "top" lists be. Let us make lots of "top" lists instead. Here are mine, based on months of scrupulous research, interviews, etc.:
Top Hypothetical Concert Lineup Based on Most Outrageous Local Band Names: Jungle Tits/ Al-Qaeda/ The Complimentary Toothpicks
Top Facial Feature: eyes
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Book: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Top Shelf Liquor: one may only speculate
Top Pen: Pilot G-2
Top Food: steak
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Posted by chewyfally (Falestine Afani Ruzik) on June 27, 2008 at 2:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
omfg I LOVE stuff white people like
it's friggin' hilarious.
Posted by godjilla (Jill Ensley) on June 27, 2008 at 4:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I challenge your Top Pen choice, good sir!
For these are the Best Pens Ever:
http://www.office-supplies.us.com/produc...
Posted by Shelby (anonymous) on June 28, 2008 at 7:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Not to nitpick, toothpick, but I think Iceman and Slider won Top Gun.
That is, admittedly, disregarding the fact that Maverick essentially took himself out of the competition after Goose died.
You have to feel for that black guy who Maverick tried flying with there for a little while. "We could of had him, man. HEY! We could of had him!!"
But Maverick couldn't take the shot. It was "no good". Sad, really.
Great. Balls. Of fire.
Posted by frankt (Frank Tankard) on June 28, 2008 at 8:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sorry, Shelby, but the staff of the Rogue Scarlet blog, after, I repeat, months of scrupulous research, and using a set of criteria that would take far too long to explain, came to the following conclusion pertaining to this particular list, and it stands:
Top Gun: Maverick
Posted by bloozman (anonymous) on July 1, 2008 at 11:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I always thought that Paladin was the top gun.
Posted by El_Borak (Bill Hoyt) on July 2, 2008 at 11:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey, part of Lawrence was #1 in June:
http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200806.h...
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