Before we completely write off last year, here is the HarrisOnline.com YEAR-END "IT'S OVER" LIST of everything we got sick of in the year 2000 and happily say goodbye to as we enter 2001...in alphabetical order... (see the regularly updated "It's Over" list at HarrisOnline.com!)


Adam Clymer
Alan Keyes
Barbra Streisand concerts
Baseball teams holding cities hostage over new stadiums
Benetton
Bernard Shaw
Billy Joel world tours
Bobby Knight
Britney Spears
Butterfly Ballot
Christine Baranski
Controlled burns
Dalmation movies
David Boies
Diana Ross reunion tours
Dr. Laura's TV show
Electoral College
Elian Gonzalez Story
Elian's fisherman/janitor Donato Dalrymple
Ellen DeGeneres & Anne Heche
Elsa Klensch
Eminem
Eric The Eel & Paula The Porpoise
Firestone/Bridgestone tires
Flag Desecration Amendment
Florida courts
Garth & Sandy Brooks
Gary Bauer
Gay boy scout leaders
Gervase Theory
Green ketchup
Grinch tie-ins
Haley Joel Osment
Hanging, Pregnant or Dimpled Chads
Hugh Grant & Elizabeth Hurley
Jayne Meadows
Jeff Probst
Jennifer Lopez
Jesse Jackson in Decatur
Jim Lehrer
John Rocker
John Ashcroft
Katherine Harris
Kathie Lee Gifford
Frank, Cassidy, and Cody Gifford
Leftover turkey
Leo DiCaprio, journalist
Livia Soprano
Marisleysis Gonzalez
Meg Ryan & Dennis Quaid
Miami Mayor Joe Carollo
Monica Lewinsky's Jenny Craig ads
Nike's "Chainsaw" commercial
Orrin Hatch
Pets.com and that Sock Puppet (I protest, I love him! -k)
Political Ads
Political Conventions
Pulau Tiga
Radio Shack's Teri Hatcher/Howie Long commercials
Ralph Nader
Reform Party
Rick Rockwell & Darva Conger
Rick Ankiel
Rick Kaplan
Robert Ray
Romanian doctors who prescribe Sudafed
Rudy Giuliani
Sacagawea Golden Dollar
Slobodan Milosevic
Smashing Pumpkins
St. Louis Rams defense
Stephen King's online book
Subliminal rats
Subway Series
Super Bowl ads for unknown dot coms
TV legal pundits
Tyra Banks
Un-decodable human genome
Vote-O-Matic
Voter News Service
Wen Ho Lee
Whitney Houston
Y2K Hype
"Almost Famous"
"American High"
"Battlefield Earth"
"Beverly Hills 90210"
"Big Brother"
"Deadline"
"Firing Line"
"Frasier"
"Little Nicky"
"Peanuts"
"Pond Scum"
"Spin City"
"The Beach"
"The Michael Richards Show"
"The Geena Davis Show"
"Who Let The Dogs Out"


-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 02, 2001

Answers

I didn't even know some of these, (Rick Ankiel?Rick Kaplan?Robert Ray?) and some of these I'm not sick of yet, (who can get sick of Whitney Houston?) but I definately agree with Dalmations and "Who let the dogs out" and everything to do with the election. The other stuff that I got sick of, like Elian, is already far in the past to me.

But I will NEVER be sick of the sock puppet...NEVER! :-)

-- and by the way... (kritter@adelphia.net), January 03, 2001.

"Beverly Hills 90210" is over??!!!

Like, bummer, dude.

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Actually, I am just living for the day that priceline.com stops those obnoxious ads with the old star trek guy.

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-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), January 03, 2001.

Shatner ruined any cool image Capt.Kirk ever had with those awful commercials. What was he thinking? Could he really need money THAT bad? And I thought Priceline went bankrupt, but they're still touting travel tickets? Clueless!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 04, 2001.

Sick of Peanuts????!???

They must be just plain sick!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 04, 2001.

Kritter, the first name on your list is NY Times reporter Adam Clymer, the man W referred to as a "major leage asshole" when he supposedly thought the microphone was off. It is my theory that he really knew the mike was on,. and that his remark provided the margin of his victory.

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), January 10, 2001.

Clymer was one I knew, Peter, mainly because his name has now come to replace the word "asshole" on Free Republic. So you see a lot of "Hey, you'd have to be a total clymer to believe that"..and such. Kinda funny how that happens..heh.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 10, 2001.