Toga Tops
Jen is the email-sucking dummy. | Jennifer, but context is important. Dummy can be a synonym for model, and not all of us use email often. Because a piano is too hard. | Tommye in answer to why she planned to make a rock airplane. You gotta squeeze and suck | Jennifer. Remember that we were downing Jell-O shots. Q: Is the opening ceremony tonight? A: I wasn’t listening Fancy scissors with a phallic holder. | Jennifer. She wasn’t wrong. Can you take the whole load? | Clay You want a little bit hanging out. | Rebecca. Remember that we [...]
Twinkler Tops
I’m a cycle behind. | Erik’s t-shirt spoke of our originally planned theme. Or is it looking ahead? Tell him to stop flashing me. | Sue E. Reference is to a camera light btw. Who’s holding my pants? | Tommye, as we helped her down the fire pit ramp Who asked for a solo? | Tommye, noting Dave’s robust singing People like you shouldn’t have to deal with those lowbrows. | John Hamby correctly assessing our Pontoonical experience. I see the cupholder but where would I put my champagne flute? | Bryan, speculating what we might have said to the [...]
Jive talkin Tops
Just your name. | MJ after Rob asked what as a newbie he should share with the group Pie Today (?) | MJ What the hell are you even doing? Why are you bothering? | Ed, watching John cut off tiny slivers of quiche. The first part is pants on. The second part is often pants off. | Bryan Pat. | Our surly, inefficient, officious, indoor-smoking ranger. Mighty Casey struck out. | Wayne entertained us while we tried coping with Ranger Pat’s nonsense. Stop offering things you don’t want to do. | Deb’s advice to John Why develop it if [...]
Topping off 21
Who needs Deb Dicke? | Said entirely in sour-grapes jest, we assure you, as Bryan carried on the Cheese Tradition. Deb, we miss you -- come back!Did someone just join us? | Alex H very quietly when we realized there was one more silhouette than we expected in the darkness.I’ve done this before. I should know better.Moronis: The dimmest star in the constellation Dufus.We may be a pharmacy right here. | Sharon, when Tommye realized she didn’t bring her pillsThe trees started choking the prairies, encroaching. | Docent GraceArt circles and spotlights? Or silos and septic vents? | Urban vs. [...]
20 Tops: Knobs, hats, Hobs and more
It’s the obsession with cheese. | Talking about what we most miss about real-live Weekend, Elizabeth nailed it with an annual cheese-based quote. You just woke me up. | Tommye on how she’s been doing lately. Get thee robe gone! | From Rosemary’s brilliant haiku. 25% of the time you should be thinking about toilets. | Mike as an efficiency expert giving bad advice. Sounds like a personal problem. | When a haiku emerges. From Sue. A pirate festival? What?! | Explaining her costume, Deb thought we would let her just gloss over her past life. I use it when [...]
Top these, Mauna Loa.
It was not all paradise and sunshine on our Island. But it was always damnably hilarious ... There’s a chaw theme? | Erik, on learning we’re getting buckets.That’s an NP problem. | Showing off both our grasp of high-level concepts and our inability to pack a car.Vote for Joe! Vote for Joe! | Perhaps not in the Sistine. But our conclaves are more fun: They include group chants. At the election of the first Funnery Sergeant, Office of Coordination and Direction.We impeached Joe. | Five hours later, our first coup. Lu made the announcement.I think we made a mistake. | [...]
From soup to nuts: Our Tops of 18
Try to Top these: Now that’s how you keep the bears away. | Weekender Wayne likes show tunes. Submitted by the non-play goers. Trip Soup | Entrée at Shifflet’s Riverside menu: ‘One Trip Soup & Salad Bar.’ (‘Waiter, can you carelessly walk this around again to make sure it’s been properly tripped?’) Copy of Strunk and White and an armload of hyphens are being rushed over. Why would you go to Richland Center? | Lodge Owner Jennifer, mystified I’ve handled fifth graders before. | Lon, our patient to-a-point Richland Center guide. It used to be a strip club. | Guide [...]
Top Tens of Seventeen
“What the hell, Odell?” (Tommye, with an update of “To wander around.”) +++ “That’s not retro. It’s what it is.” (Mick’s observation of the Café 110 décor – and winner of the Most Insightful Comment about Art and Life award.) +++ “Chicken ain’t up.” (PT’s Barbecue. In life, sometimes the second choice is the best choice. Oh those heavenly ribs.) +++ “I wish I had worn more comfortable shoes.” (Deb, year 17) +++ Wayne’s Dali-esque mustache (Deb) +++ “Nope.” Bryan, staying on message throughout (From Deb) +++ “Blub.” (Mike attempted a comical reading of the Allerton’s rose bed signage. A [...]
Top Ten of 16
Top Ten entries, in no particular order. Please add, vote, scratch your head …. You don't even have to have a line to be a bad actor. (Mike, speaking of the skittish bit players.) This Indignation Meeting is hereby called to order. (We learned that when people felt irked in the 1800s, they got together and whined. We intend to revive the tradition.) The Johnbon. (Our new Weekend celebrity couple.) I feel like I’ve been put in a bowl. (Chris Hage through FaceTime. He was right. But oh what a fancy Vrooman bowl he ended up in.) It's rude to [...]
Top Ten XV
Vote now for your favorites or add new ones in the Comments section: 1. "When Pushkin comes to shovekin." - Mike (submission: Beth) 2. "Why did you come here? ... Towanda around." - Tommye (submission: Deb) 3. "Do you remember what card you were dealt?" - Mike. Was that a catch-the-liar question or not or both? 4. "All at the same time?" - Tommye after the lengthy list of possible burger condiments at Kick's in Towanda. 5. "Do you like Mike Mikottis?" - John Hoffman trying to winnow out the one holding the Ace of Pomeranians. (submission: Deb) 6. Head [...]