Tim Midgett told me, and now I have seen with my eyes, that Crap has gone e-Crap. This warms my aging heart. The game was invented many years ago when Bedhead and Albiznonnini were getting to know one another and needed a quick and direct way to economize the process of mutual understanding. Let me say though that this game is not entirely binary. There was always the "apulancra" option for proposals too hideous to be fit into a simple dichotomy.
I think maybe we could learn even more about each other by playing the game of Rank. Rank was invented in the earliest days of Studio B, so for it to be resurrected in the form of EA's interactive website would be a poetic return fitting with the poetry inherent in the game itself.
It is easy to play in person, but I will leave it to the engineers to figure out how it should be played it on-line. The interlocutor first says rank the following, for example and to borrow a classic from my brother: White Zombie, Great White, and the little dried out white dog turd you occasionally find at your feet while walking down the sidewalk. The respondent or respondents rank and explain each in the following manner: Great White, because they lit themselves on fire, the little dried out dog turd, because it is rare like a diamond, and White Zombie, who would be at the bottom of most conceivable lists. The interlocutor, who always has a the correct rank in his or her mind, then responds, you have the correct order! Or, right, except the fecal diamond should be first! I'm not sure how you would work this into the ranking game. Maybe we leave this part out of the picture and just tally votes? In any case, this is the basic structure and you can see here that there is usually a controlling theme to the trio (the more connections, and I can find several in the Great White ranking, the better) . Other examples, ZZ Top, G.G. Allin, Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Timothy B. Schmidt, Sophie B Hawkins, Al B. Sure (Eagles as a rule come last but usually present can-God-create-a-mountain-he-can't-destroy-type dilemmas; try, for example, to rank Don Henley, Eric Clapton, and Glen Fry). Neu! Wham! !!!. Messina, Garfunkel, Crofts. Can, Canned Heat, Heatwave. The Grateful Dead, Bread, Dread Zeppellin. Etc.
This is basic idea. Let's play Rank!
Biznono

This...

This is just too much for me.

Ciao Biznono!

It is so beautiful to see you here with us at the Electrical Audios web-site. Beautiful!

These game, the Rank, she is really a great game. She is special good in person, so you can see the vein bulge out in the Bubba forehead as he tries to find a third candidate, having already thought of Generation X and Genya Ravan. The peace she floods over him in a wave as he finally blurts out "Gigli!" -- though not optimum, she is at least on a rankable level of tragedy with the others -- will be a warm memory for everyone.

Oh, these game she is beautiful. Let's play.

Please rank:

the Beach Boys
the Oak Ridge Boys
the Busboys

Ciao Biz!
-albiznonnini

biznono, co-father of crap/not crap, gifts us all with his blessing and an intro to 'rank'

rank...she is an advanced game, and unlike crap/not crap she DEMANDS explanation

well, encourages it, anyway

i'm just glad i have fuckall to do at work today

ok...it's best in person, but:

the Beach Boys, for they have made a little music that i like, in between being either banal or crazy

the Oak Ridge Boys, for they made this song 'elvira' that i can at least remember, and for the guy with the deep voice

the Busboys, for they had an album called 'minimum wage rock and roll' but no good music, or any music that i recall

here is one from the vaults, though i can see another 'poll' section coming up and i will just have to do it again. i put it in the 'correct' order just to get the ball rolling and eliminate the need to reply:

yoko ono
bono
sonny bono

how to do this as a poll...? i leave this to computer experts to figure out. it is too daunting a task for me to even consider.

sonny bono-was able to have sex w/ a woman who was light yrs out his league
yoko ono-plastic ono band is pretty good
bono-bubble butt + delusions of granduer

Benny from "L.A. Law"
Corky from "Life Goes On"
Blair's cousin Geri from "The Facts of Life"

you know that styx song, 'too much time on my hands?' well, after working pretty hard for a couple weeks, it is now my theme song. hence--

brad:

>>1. Bus Boys

all i remember about them is that there were a lot of them and they were black

what else is their deal?

this is the correct order, the one you gave:

Benny from "L.A. Law"--b/c the guy was a good actor and he did a good job, better than the corkman even tho the corkman was cast to type

Corky from "Life Goes On"--b/c he wrote a very nice book about himself, which i was once given as a gift

Blair's cousin Geri from "The Facts of Life"--she is last b/c she was played by nancy mckeon as well, as i recall, and as a result gave me that uncomfortable 'i'm somewhat attracted sexually to a retarded girl' feeling. you know what i am talking about.

She is on!

yoko ono for I like things about her. I mean "about" as in, those things not her but in her vicinity.
sonny bono because he skiied into a tree, which is itself as a kind of pratfall worth something.
bono for he is last place in this one. Did not appear in any Eddie Murphy films.

the Busboys: were in at least one Eddie Murphy film.
the Beach Boys: have one or two genuinely beautiful moments, but are mostly a terrible band (yes, I would say crap even).
the Oak Ridge Boys: "Elvira" I remember. Nothing else. Were not on Hee-Haw to my recollection.

Play on.

tmidgett wrote:Benny from "L.A. Law"--b/c the guy was a good actor and he did a good job, better than the corkman even tho the corkman was cast to type

Corky from "Life Goes On"--b/c he wrote a very nice book about himself, which i was once given as a gift

Blair's cousin Geri from "The Facts of Life"--she is last b/c she was played by nancy mckeon as well, as i recall, and as a result gave me that uncomfortable 'i'm somewhat attracted sexually to a retarded girl' feeling. you know what i am talking about.

Tim,

Your answer is spot on from a socially well-adjusted perspective. However, the list demands a response from the more exploitive side of things (i.e., these characters' unintended comedic value and/or use of these characters to teach awkward values lessons to other characters who have failed to realize "how good they have it").

Rank again, Friend!

wasn't geri the deaf girl? and also a terrible stand up comedian?

in that case

corky-that's a dog's name
geri-wasn't blair really offended by geri's exsistence?
benny-fake retard meh