Calico
01-08-2002, 12:58 PM
I got this from the 'Entertainment Today' mailing at Shagmail.com . I thought it was pretty amusing.
THE YEAR’S DUMBEST PEOPLE AND THINGS
The Rev. Jerry Falwell tops MAD Magazine’s list of “The Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001.” The evangelist receieved the dubious honor for blaming the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 on "the abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians." "We thought Falwell had reached his personal pinnacle of dumbness a few years ago when he accused the Teletubbies of promoting homosexuality," said MAD co-editor John Ficarra. "Give the guy credit, we underestimated him." The MAD editors point out that the millennium is off to an extraordinarily dumb start. "The botched presidential election made 2000 a very dumb year,” said Ficarra, ”but between Falwell's moronic comments after Sept. 11, the Gary Condit affair and the XFL debacle, 2001 was even
dumber!"
The previous winners of MAD's "dumbest thing of the year" were Monicagate (1998), The Y2K Panic (1999) and last year's presidential election.
THE MAD 20: The Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001
1. Jerry Falwell's Ugly Remarks About Sept. 11
2. Celebrity Substance Abuse As A Career Move
3. "13-Year Old" Danny Almonte And The Bronx Little
League Scandal
4. Bill Clinton Gets A Sweet $10 Million Book Deal
5. Anne Heche Says Bye "Bi," Goes Hetero
6. NASCAR's Abysmal Safety Record
7. Err Jordan: Michael's Foolish Comeback
8. The Supreme Court Snuffs Out Medical Marijuana
9. The Timothy McVeigh Death Lottery
10. Fuzzy Math: The Bush Tax Rebate
11. McDonald's McFixed Monopoly Game Contest
12. Puff Daddy Changes His Name To "P. Diddy"
13. The Butchers Of Beijing Awarded Olympic Games
14. Elton John Duets With Eminem At Grammy Awards
15. Weird Beard: Al Gore Grows Facial Hair
16. The XFL Debacle
17. The Bush Daughters Drunken Adventure
18. That Millionaire Guy Who Bribed The Russians To
Launch Him Into Space
19. The Gary Condit Affair
20. MAD Magazine Sells Out, Accepts Ads
THE YEAR’S DUMBEST PEOPLE AND THINGS
The Rev. Jerry Falwell tops MAD Magazine’s list of “The Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001.” The evangelist receieved the dubious honor for blaming the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 on "the abortionists, feminists, gays and lesbians." "We thought Falwell had reached his personal pinnacle of dumbness a few years ago when he accused the Teletubbies of promoting homosexuality," said MAD co-editor John Ficarra. "Give the guy credit, we underestimated him." The MAD editors point out that the millennium is off to an extraordinarily dumb start. "The botched presidential election made 2000 a very dumb year,” said Ficarra, ”but between Falwell's moronic comments after Sept. 11, the Gary Condit affair and the XFL debacle, 2001 was even
dumber!"
The previous winners of MAD's "dumbest thing of the year" were Monicagate (1998), The Y2K Panic (1999) and last year's presidential election.
THE MAD 20: The Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001
1. Jerry Falwell's Ugly Remarks About Sept. 11
2. Celebrity Substance Abuse As A Career Move
3. "13-Year Old" Danny Almonte And The Bronx Little
League Scandal
4. Bill Clinton Gets A Sweet $10 Million Book Deal
5. Anne Heche Says Bye "Bi," Goes Hetero
6. NASCAR's Abysmal Safety Record
7. Err Jordan: Michael's Foolish Comeback
8. The Supreme Court Snuffs Out Medical Marijuana
9. The Timothy McVeigh Death Lottery
10. Fuzzy Math: The Bush Tax Rebate
11. McDonald's McFixed Monopoly Game Contest
12. Puff Daddy Changes His Name To "P. Diddy"
13. The Butchers Of Beijing Awarded Olympic Games
14. Elton John Duets With Eminem At Grammy Awards
15. Weird Beard: Al Gore Grows Facial Hair
16. The XFL Debacle
17. The Bush Daughters Drunken Adventure
18. That Millionaire Guy Who Bribed The Russians To
Launch Him Into Space
19. The Gary Condit Affair
20. MAD Magazine Sells Out, Accepts Ads