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butter_of_69
28 May 2003, 09:57 AM
Link (http://www.bookofratings.com/archive.html)

There are ratings of everything from Danger symbols to Street Fighter characters to Dante's Inferno punishments.

Here's one to get you started, the rating of the state quarter of Ohio:

The Wright Brothers' airplane makes a reprise here, but Ohio seems to have reached a truce in the ongoing North Carolina rivalry by specifying that it's the home of aviation pioneers, rather than aviation itself. The other aviation pioneers are Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, who are represented by an anonymous astronaut suit. Fair enough. "Famous people were born here but became famous elsewhere" is kind of a sad claim, but fair enough. C-

c-lando
28 May 2003, 12:36 PM
I really liked this one...

Grape Soda
I actually drink more diet soda than sugar soda, not so much out of a desire to diet than a desire to not be on a sucrose high every moment of every day. As a lover of all things grape and artificial, I have been constantly disappointed by the difficulty of getting diet grape soda in California. One of the few perks of moving to the South is that you can get diet grape soda here, but only Diet Rite white grape soda, which tastes right, but it's not purple! What, I ask you, is the point? Whom, I ask you, are we fooling? It's grape soda, I neither want nor need it to look good in a champagne flute. A

And this one had my name all over it...

Corn Dogs
There's obviously nothing in American cuisine so bad for you that it won't be battered and deep-fried. I'm sure the only thing preventing "Fried Breaded Mayo 'N' Butter Nuggets" from hitting a Denny's appetizer sampler near you is that they dissolve in the vat. Corn Dogs are an ancient and honorable manifestation of the will to fry. B-