The list for June 21, 1996
The Top 17 Worst Inventions of The
Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”
Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”
- Seaweed Schnapps
- The Monkey-Powered Snow Blower
- BETA video format (Oops! That’s the worst invention from the professors at SONY)
- The coconut shell ‘WonderBra’
- Cream Of Jellyfish soup
- Two words: Coconut Zima
- http://www.gilligan.org
- Line dancing
- Windows ’65
- The salt-water bidet
- Silk preservative that prevents slinky dresses from eventually decaying and falling from the body
- Potion that forces Ginger to take a three-hour nap… a three-hour nap.
- Dinghy enlargement procedure
- In famous banned episode, made Ginger a “little buddy” of her own, using a petrified banana and parts from that portable radio.
- The Common-Sense Plot Eliminator
- Ginger Repellent
And the Number 1 Worst Invention of The Professor from “Gilligan’s Island”…
- Thurston Howell IV
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CREDITS
Selected from 128 submissions by 43 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Caroline Gennity, Virginia Beach, VA — 1
- Mike Manion, Lexington, KY — 2
- Joel McClure, Sterling Heights, MI — 2
- Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 3
- Dave George, Arlington, VA — 3, 7, 16
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 4
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 5
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 6
- Bill Burnett, Lexington, MA — 7
- Pete Brittingham, Titusville, NJ — 8
- Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA — 9, 14, Topic
- Chris McKenna, Malibu, CA — 10
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 11
- Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 12
- Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA — 12
- Randy Wohl, Ma’ale Adumim, Israel — 13
- Jim Louderback, New York, NY — 14
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 14
- Perry Friedman, Menlo Park, CA — 14
- Christopher Troise, New York, NY — 15
- Jeff Johnson, Daly City, CA — 17
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