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Top 20 Most Revolting
Places on Earth

Tesla’s celebrity rehab center

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Most Revolting Places on Earth

  1. Public transit in Europe on a hot day
  2. Wisconsin Statehouse
  3. Lick your finger. Stick it in an electrical socket. Kill the power. Turn the power back on. Rinse finger. Repeat.
  4. Libya
  5. Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Djibouti, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, Palestine
  6. Egypt
  7. The intersection of Suppression and Rebellion
  8. The taint
  9. Down behind the stove
  10. The truck stop restroom on the road from San Paulo to Bebedouro Brazil
  11. Third world and American meat markets
  12. Most touch screens
  13. Inside (any) porta-potty
  14. The incubating biosphere that is a New York taxi backseat
  15. 50 Cent’s mouth
  16. Movie theater floors
  17. Chewing gum stalactites under restaurant tables
  18. Tesla’s celebrity rehab center
  19. Bob’s oatmeal bowl at the end of the week
  20. Bob’s oatmeal bowl at the beginning of the week

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Top 20 Reasons We’ll Miss Margo

Access to her Eggo® stash

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Reasons We’ll Miss Margo

  1. Her “celebrity” mind meld with Tim
  2. Who’ll be framed in the doorway?
  3. Access to her Eggo® stash
  4. Her superior whistling (to Bob’s)
  5. Our second degree of separation from Goldie Hawn
  6. I’ll be the only one with wet hair in the morning
  7. Who’ll be framed for my errors? (2A.)
  8. Spunk
  9. Her positive outlook on life
  10. Now who will I talk into Yats for lunch
  11. She’s fun
  12. She’s a good designer
  13. She sits funny
  14. Because we have terrible aim. ;)
  15. She has a sunshiny personality
  16. Because Mister Margo wouldn’t sound right
  17. When it sounds like Bob approaching, it will be
  18. ___________ Because she could have come up with something funny for #18
  19. No more funny kid stories
  20. Because we really, really like her

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Top 20 Things That May Have Killed Ed (me) in the Boundary Waters

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Refused to pay $7000
for seaplane rescue

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things That May Have Killed Ed in the Boundary Waters

  1. Minnesotan’s unfailing politeness
  2. The guys from Deliverance
  3. Massive oil spill
  4. Refused to pay $7000 for seaplane rescue
  5. Minnesota wading coyotes
  6. A run-in with Locke (smoke monster)
  7. Inability to update his Twitter stream
  8. Eaten by a Northern Pike
  9. Not knowing what’s going on at Brainstorm
  10. Ran over by a deer
  11. Elk
  12. Bear
  13. Moose
  14. Wild dawgs
  15. Lyme disease
  16. A Flash sideways
  17. Malaria
  18. Snake bite
  19. He’s not dead, just lost
  20. Unfiltered water
  21. Starvation

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Top 20 Favorite Friday
Night Wind-Downs

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Panic room, interesting video

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Favorite Friday Night Wind-Downs

  1. A placid dip in the sensory deprivation tank
  2. Appointment with my masseur
  3. Brainstorming upcoming Top 20 board topics
  4. Watching 4 episodes of “24� back 2 back
  5. Pizza, wine, movie, couch
  6. Dining out
  7. Quiet room, good book
  8. A nice relaxing mosh pit!
  9. DANCE PAARTY!
  10. Panic room, interesting video
  11. I enjoying bathing in the blue glow of multiple computer screens.
  12. Family movie night
  13. A first class flight to a tropical island,
    or even a coach flight to a regular island.
  14. Dress like a bear and hang out in the park
  15. Yak Stew, read the health care bill, watch Enemy of the State, go to Don’s Guns
  16. PJs & slippers & coffee with a little something extra
  17. Firepit
  18. Trip to the Wii Resort (or any resort)
  19. A long drive through the country
  20. Marching band practice

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Top 20 Reasons We Like Margo

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Her love of
chicken and waffles

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Reasons We Like Margo

  1. She can call Goldie Hawn Mom, and get away with it
  2. She sits funny
  3. Her love of chicken and waffles
  4. She always smells good
  5. Bubbly personality
  6. She makes random outbursts!
  7. Denies ever being married
    to a Black Crowes band member (see #1)
  8. She’s shorter than me
  9. Her outgoing nature
  10. She listens to me ramble all day
  11. She’s a good superb stellar designer
  12. She can talk and work at the same time
  13. She talks to herself more than I do
  14. It makes Jenni us all happy to have her here
  15. Post-It note® reminder to herself: No candy No candy NO CANDY
  16. Cute as a Kate Hudson button,
    sweet as a Kate Hudson pie (see #1)
  17. Even her name is fun
  18. She breaks into spontaneous song
  19. Her smile :)
  20. Because she limited herself to adding only 2 items to this list.
  21. She won’t take offense at this board

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