After a record number of entries and votes, we are proud to roll out the officially exciting 2008 Weekend With William Wisconsin Top Tens …
First, the Top Honorable Also Rans — entries with at least a couple votes:
11) “Come on, everybody, we appear to be in a big hurry.” (Amy gets some backsass after trying to move our tubes downstream instead of sideways.)
12) “Looks like seventeen years of vegetarianism out the window.” (Yes, Beth, Sharon’s “tuna” salad will do that to you.)
13) Robert the Doll. (It is critical with this one to enunciate in a Hagean baritone.)
14) “Peaseblossom!” (Mike liked saying that, a lot, with corresponding flourish.)
15) “Can I get a bit of the Kurosawa?” (Requesting a favorite soundtrack from Beth’s 50-cent plastic flute.)
16) “Yeah, I used to care.” (Deb’s assertion.)
17) “Well, I must have had someone in the bar this morning who worked at a cheese factory.” (Waitress at Puempel’s, after Bryan’s discourse on the bacterial relation between limburger and body odor.)
18) “Shine on, shine on Sturgeony Moon – !”
19) “Make historical markers part of your lifestyle.”
20) “Oh, just get an armload of food.” (Instructions to Bryan on his way to buy fixin’s for breakfast.)
And now, the WwWm Certified 2008 Top Ten Ö
10) “Oh, is there paperwork to fill out?” (Melissa, on seeing Top Ten entry forms being completed.)
9) Do dogs pee in the water while they’re swimming ñ or poop, for that matter? Ö Good boy, Lenny! Good boy! Ö No, downstream, downstream! Ö Oh, that’s just nasty. (The final comment from Hage.)
8) “Oft won, never washed.” (Ed’s troubling observation on the GoH.)
7) “Is that Homeric or classical Greek?” (Bryan, binoculars in hand, being queried about the words on the prop Port-O-John on stage.)
6) What exactly is the definition of armload? (An Ed-xistential question, from the unit of measure that firewood is sold by at the resort. Many advanced degrees never found a satisfactory conclusion.)
5) “Going to hell in a Rachel Ray Waste Bowl.” (Bryan, updating a classic.)
4) “Screw you guys; I’m getting on that canoe.” (Sayeth Deb during our strung-together tube tour, referring to the offer she received from a passing and presumably more handsome group.)
3) Pay showers ñ cleanliness costs. (But it’s the best eight-bit hosing you’ll ever find.)
2) “Aris-toph-anes?!” (Bryan’s dramatic reading while docenting the Allen Ludden Papers tour.)
And Ww/Wm 8’s Number One:
1) “Don’t f*%# a whore without a condom, and don’t put your purse in a urinal.” (Hage’s proposed solution to 80 percent of the nation’s public health issues.)