Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:15pm
1. The Nazi Holocaust & WWII
2. The Eruption of Pompeii, 79 AD
3. "My Honeymoon is ruined by the strike!"
4. The Japan Famine, 1181
5. Calcutta Earthquake 1737
6. "My kids are going to miss 'The Grinch'"
7. The Spanish Influenza Epidemic
8. "My school trip to see Spring Awakening is canceled"
9. The Ukraine Famine, 1921
10. Raul Esparza loses Tony to David Hyde Pierce
Did I miss anything? Feel free to add....
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:16pmThe "I hate deer!" thread's demise is up there.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:16pm11. No 'mo Raku.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:17pm
Borstal, That actually came in at #13, but judges ruled that the thread itself gave so much joy that it counteracted some of the despair when it was killed.
I still miss that thread.
Updated On: 11/20/07 at 03:17 PM
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:19pm
Does Hiroshima count as part of WWII, or is it big enough to get it's own number?
Cause right now, it's a tossup between that and Brendan Stryker's untimely demise.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#5re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:20pmThe stagehand strike should be number one. Seriously, you're so out of touch. And Raul Esparza losing the Tony is so much worse than a mere number ten!
#6re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:20pm
14. Papa's back. 
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:23pm
No sh*t, em!
That gets the top spot of the last TOP 10 REASONS WHY IT'S HATEFUL DAVID HYDE PIERCE WAS EVER BORN.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:24pm
Em, the strike is so large, so unimaginable a horror that it is broken into 437 separate entries, including # 1,284: Strike causes me to miss that Jersey Boys' guy's last performance" and #4,118 "Striking stagehand spills coffee on my favorite Gap Hoodie."
All Aspects of WWII, including Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Japanese Interment camps and the start of the Atomic Era are all included into one Horrible thing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:26pm
Think of it this way, the Strike is so horrific that it couldn't possibly be covered by one thread; This list is no different.
And the closing of Raku came in at #827. It would have been #662 but the judges ruled the story of Corrine's parasitic worm a separate entry (#4367).
Updated On: 11/20/07 at 03:26 PM
#10re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:32pmI don't see "Melanie Griffith as Roxie Hart" anywhere on the list?!?!?!
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#11re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:33pmOr that whole thing about Miss Patti losing that Tony.
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:42pm
Melanie is #7423 and Miss Patti is unrepresented. Sorry. "Bernadette losing to What'sherface" is #4,634, behind the Assassination of Lincoln and right above the Niger Famine of 1962.
You got to admit, they did a pretty thorough job. A LOT of Broadway fans on the committee.
#13re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:47pm9-11
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#14re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:47pmOK, but where is "Cats passes A Chorus Line as Broadway's longest running show"???
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:51pmElphaba, it is an international list, so 9-11 only ranked #47. "Cats" is #14. That includes all productions, the 'longest running show' title and that awful awful Barbra Streisand 'Memory.'
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#16re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:55pm
George Cukor being hired to direct the film version of My Fair Lady.
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#17re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:59pm
Stalin and the 20 million russians he killed?
Beubonic Plague?
China and the 10s of millions killed in the xfr to communism?
All pale in comparison to the Big Broadway Strike of 2007.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#18re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:03pmOh, and: "They didn't give the Tony to Mano!!"
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:18pm
What about LaChanze winning over Patti?
How about Ms. America getting fired from "Chicago'?
Acid Wash denim?
I mean, c'mon.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#21re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:20pm
The Killing Fields or Kerry Butler's snub in '03?
TEAM BUTLER ALL THAT WAY!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:30pm
One offense was too horrid to overlook:
#32 Acid washed Denim
#23re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:41pm
I'm f*cking flattered!
My thread deletion was worse than acid washed jeans?!
It makes typing with my hoofs all worth while!
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"This is almost as good as the deer thread.
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#24re: Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!
Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:47pm
Why do I become delirious the moment I see that robbiej has reappeared?
And is it contagious?
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