Top 10 Worst things to happen, ever!

[Unknown User]

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]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:16pm

The "I hate deer!" thread's demise is up there.

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:16pm

11. No 'mo Raku.

[Unknown User]

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]

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:20pm

The 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!

[Pippin]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:20pm

14. Papa's back.

[robbiej]

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.

[Unknown User]

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.

[Unknown User]

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

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:32pm

I don't see "Melanie Griffith as Roxie Hart" anywhere on the list?!?!?!

[soapguy17]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:33pm

Or that whole thing about Miss Patti losing that Tony.

[Unknown User]

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.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:47pm

9-11

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:47pm

OK, but where is "Cats passes A Chorus Line as Broadway's longest running show"???

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:51pm

Elphaba, 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]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 3:55pm

George Cukor being hired to direct the film version of My Fair Lady.

[kelzama]

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]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:03pm

Oh, and: "They didn't give the Tony to Mano!!"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:06pm

Yes Kel. EXACTLY.

[singtopher]

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.

[robbiej]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:20pm

The Killing Fields or Kerry Butler's snub in '03?

TEAM BUTLER ALL THAT WAY!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:30pm

One offense was too horrid to overlook:

#32 Acid washed Denim

[AngryDeer]

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!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 4:47pm

Why do I become delirious the moment I see that robbiej has reappeared?

And is it contagious?