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TOP TEN
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New list every Monday night · From the home office on my mom's couch in Philadelphia

What's up. I'm Andre Wallace. Every weeknight at 11:35 I was on the couch for Dave. Now I work nights at a video store out on City Line Avenue, so I tape the show and watch it at two in the morning with a bowl of cereal, which honestly might be better. Dave has been doing Top Ten lists since the '80s, and somewhere around my junior year of high school I started writing my own in the back of my notebooks. My sister finally told me to put them on the Internet so she could stop hearing them at dinner.

So here they are. A new one goes up every Monday. I don't work for CBS, Dave has no idea who I am, and the Top Ten List is his thing, but every joke on this page came off my couch.

THIS WEEK'S LIST
Monday, September 20, 1999
Top Ten Signs You Work
at a Video Store
10.You've said "Be kind, rewind" so many times you say it to the microwave.
9.You keep one copy of Titanic behind the counter for the lady who's rented it nineteen times.
8.Your mom asks where the car keys are and you tell her to check the drop box.
7.You can explain the plot of every movie on the new-release wall, and you haven't seen a single one.
6.Customers hold up a box with a dog in a football helmet on it and ask you, seriously, "Is this one any good?"
5.Every Friday at 7 p.m. you are the most popular man in the neighborhood. By 7:04 all the new releases are gone and so is your popularity.
4.You have heard "I swear I brought it back" in every voice from whisper to opera.
3.The reason you applied was to work off your own late fees. You're still working them off.
2.You rewind tapes in your sleep. Your little brother says he has proof.
1.Twice a day somebody asks where you keep The Phantom Menace, and you have to tell them it's not out on tape yet, and they look at you like you personally ate it.

THE COUCH RULES

  1. Ten items. Counting down. Always.
  2. Number one is supposed to be the funniest. Sometimes it even is.
  3. Clean enough for my grandmother. She reads this every Monday on her WebTV and calls me about it Tuesday.
  4. Make fun of situations, not people. Except me. Me is fair game.

YOUR TURN

Once a month I run a list written by readers. The best ten entries make it, and your first name and state go next to your joke. October's topic is Top Ten Signs Your Halloween Costume Needs Work. Send yours to [email protected] by the 15th.

OLDER LISTS

Beanie Babies, Pokemon, barbers, cookouts and the week in July the whole city melted: the Couch Top Ten archive.

COUCH STATS

Couches1 (plaid, older than me)
Cushions3, one of them flat on one side
Lists written since January38
Lists good enough to postabout half
Remotes lost in the couch2 (one found)

You are viewer number
005383
since the first list went up in February.

E-mail me
[email protected]

Last updated Monday, September 20, 1999
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