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50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers

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Where's Don Imus on that list?

BTW, those critiques are brutal.

Here's my favorite, especially the last line: :slappy:

46. Lorne Michaels
Producer, SNL


Okay. Let's cut the bullshit?Saturday Night Live was never funny. Watching the coked-up antics of Chevy Chase, John Belushi and Joe Piscopo while completely sober proves it once and for all. Yes, Michaels has discovered and helped launch some clever and talented performers over the years, but he's just as often destroyed them. Even the current cast has some brilliant writers and performers?when we've seen them live at UCB and away from SNL?but the second Michaels gives them his anti-Midas touch and forces them to aim for the lowest common denominator, the shit's outta business. We've seen Amy Poehler and Tina Fey be comic geniuses in person, but under the visionary incompetence of one of the dumbest men in tv history, you just want to punch them both in the face. But please save your fists for the man responsible for dumbing down three different generations of society and turning satire into a dirty word. Even the Bushes watch their caricatures and giggle. Under Michaels' watch, "Weekend Update," arguably the nation's most visible engine of political satire, has muddled through 9/11, the Iraq war and two contentious presidential elections. Among its most frequent targets? Daytime television talk show The View. We implore you, Lorne, do the world a favor and resign. Then find your true calling in life: coke dealer.
 
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I chat with a NY woman over at Caribou some mornings, and she gave me an interesting take on New Englanders...not necessarily just New Yorkers.

Paraphrasing, she said the difference b/t New Englanders and Southerners is that with the New Englander, they take a while to get to know you, but once they do, you have a friend for life. Southerners open right up, but the friendship may or may not deepen.

So I would have to temper my perception of New Yawkers accordingly.
 
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JoJaBuckeye;757430; said:
I chat with a NY woman over at Caribou some mornings, and she gave me an interesting take on New Englanders...not necessarily just New Yorkers.

Paraphrasing, she said the difference b/t New Englanders and Southerners is that with the New Englander, they take a while to get to know you, but once they do, you have a friend for life. Southerners open right up, but the friendship may or may not deepen.

So I would have to temper my perception of New Yawkers accordingly.
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Usually, you're just going to get honest opinion when you talk to em, whether you want it or not, which people from more WASPY, restrained, or genteel parts of the country don't quite get or appreciate sometimes. I love it myself, but then again my folks both grew up in Brooklyn. Regardless, it's the one truly great city in the U.S. IMO.
 
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How could Thump pass over the Olsen twins?

34. Olsen Twins
NYU Students Fraternal? Identical? Adorable? How about really fucking scrawny and annoying. The only thing we know for sure about the Olsen twins is that they suck—albeit legally, now that they've reached the age of consent. Though straight-to-DVD dreck is their bread and butter, don't expect them to cash out by flashing their itty-bitty titties on film anytime soon. They're still a couple moredrug addictions and anorexic relapses away from being forced to munch sisterly snatch, thereby fulfilling the one-handed fantasies of 74 percent of male America and falling. So what makes these saccharine siblings so repugnant? Swaddled in designer rags, they're insults to the city's hobos. And contrary to the New York Times style section, they aren't starting any trends here. Our urine-scented street people have spent years cultivating their raffish look, complete with rope belts and oversized layers of torn rags—style the Olsens are biting weakly like the pampered Chihuahuas they are. Ladies, we really want to welcome you to New York. By all means, feel free to snort our cocaine. Eat our Tasti D Lite. Screw Lolita-crazed men of dubious ethnic origin and much facial hair. Just drop the rebellious act, dress according to your bank account and for Christ's sake, eat your veggies.
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Proof that this list is idiotic:

1. Maureen Dowd's not on it.

2. Neither is Howard Stern.

3. Neither is Donald Trump (even though I actually kind of like Trump, he belongs on the list).

4. Neither are Melvyn Weiss and Walter Lerach.

5. Couric's not in the top 10.
 
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Jagdaddy;757940; said:
Proof that this list is idiotic:

1. Maureen Dowd's not on it.

2. Neither is Howard Stern.

3. Neither is Donald Trump (even though I actually kind of like Trump, he belongs on the list).

4. Neither are Melvyn Weiss and Walter Lerach.

4. Couric's not in the top 10.




Couric's not in the top 5 and neither Howards Stern, Donald Trump nor
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Howard Stern is genius. To not see that says something about you..... I also like Donald, seems like he would be an asshole to work for but a decent guy.
 
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