Rank |
percentage of total votes cast (232919) |
1 |
8.12% Prohibition |
2 |
7.98% That Teensy Programming Decision That Led to the Y2K Bug |
3 |
7.82% Geraldo Opening of Capone's Vault |
4 |
7.67% Telemarketing |
5 |
6.88% The Jerry Springer Show |
6 |
6.63% "Mr. Simpson, Step Forward and Try on the Glove" |
7 |
4.73% Spandex in Plus Sizes |
8 |
4.22% The Designated-Hitter Rule |
9 |
3.41% Driftnet Fishing |
10 |
3.04% Watches That Beep |
11 |
3.00% DDT |
12 |
2.28% The Ugandan Space Program |
13 |
2.03% Personal Watercraft |
14 |
1.63% Dalkon Shield |
15 |
1.57% The Red Sox Selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees |
16 |
1.42% Michael Jackson's Marriage to Lisa Marie Presley |
17 |
1.33% The Treaty of Versailles |
18 |
1.18% The Titanic |
19 |
1.10% Breast Implants |
20 |
1.08% Psychic Hotlines |
21 |
1.07% Barney |
22 |
1.06% New Coke |
23 |
1.03% Spray-on Hair |
24 |
0.92% Thong Underwear for Men |
25 |
0.89% Attacking Israel on Yom Kippur |
26 |
0.75% The Blacklist |
27 |
0.75% Chain E-Mail |
28 |
0.68% New Math |
29 |
0.66% Not Bombing the Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor |
30 |
0.61% Suntans |
31 |
0.59% Sailing the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound |
32 |
0.59% Fast Food |
33 |
0.50% Infomercials |
34 |
0.49% The Hitler Diaries |
35 |
0.48% The U.S. Metric Campaign |
36 |
0.46% Bush's Choice of Quayle |
37 |
0.45% Susan B. Anthony Dollar |
38 |
0.44% Asbestos |
39 |
0.41% Introducing Kudzu to the U.S. |
40 |
0.41% The Maginot Line |
41 |
0.41% Laugh Tracks |
42 |
0.38% Milli Vanilli's Grammy |
43 |
0.37% Choosing VHS over Beta |
44 |
0.36% Staffing the White House with Interns During the Government Shutdown |
45 |
0.35% Crystal Pepsi |
46 |
0.34% Installing a Recording System in the Oval Office |
47 |
0.33% Michael Jordan, Outfielder |
48 |
0.29% Flowbee |
49 |
0.29% Strip Malls |
50 |
0.28% The Independent- Counsel Statute |
51 |
0.26% Leisure suits |
52 |
0.25% The Paperless Office |
53 |
0.24% Hydrogen-Filled Blimps |
54 |
0.23% Aerosol Cheese |
55 |
0.23% Heaven's Gate |
56 |
0.22% The Russians Diverting the Tributaries of the Aral Sea |
57 |
0.21% Rocky 5 |
58 |
0.20% Tie-Breaker Shoot-outs in Soccer's World Cup |
59 |
0.20% Daryl Hall's Solo Career |
60 |
0.20% Astroturf |
61 |
0.19% Cold Fusion |
62 |
0.19% George Lazenby As James Bond |
63 |
0.18% Smell-O-Vision |
64 |
0.16% Videophones |
65 |
0.16% Mohawk Hairstyles |
66 |
0.14% Woody Allen, Paterfamilias |
67 |
0.14% Letting Oliver North Near a Shredder |
68 |
0.14% Gone With the Wind Sequels |
69 |
0.13% The Stiletto Heel |
70 |
0.12% Hooked on Classics |
71 |
0.11% Fen/Phen |
72 |
0.11% The Edsel |
73 |
0.10% Novelizations of Movies |
74 |
0.10% Shoe-Store X Rays |
75 |
0.10% MacArthur Defying Truman |
76 |
0.09% Cryogenics |
77 |
0.08% Muzak |
78 |
0.07% The Eight-Track Tape |
79 |
0.07% Hair Club for Men |
80 |
0.07% Biosphere 2 |
81 |
0.07% IBM's PC Junior |
82 |
0.07% Ishtar |
83 |
0.07% Earth Shoes |
84 |
0.06% Comeback Tours |
85 |
0.06% Vinyl Siding |
86 |
0.06% Ponzi Schemes |
87 |
0.05% Message T Shirts |
88 |
0.05% The Spruce Goose |
89 |
0.05% Theme Restaurants |
90 |
0.05% AfterMASH |
91 |
0.05% Culottes |
92 |
0.05% Radium Cures |
93 |
0.04% Promoting Kim Philby |
94 |
0.04% The DeLorean |
95 |
0.04% U.S.F.L. |
96 |
0.04% Rod McKuen's Poetry |
97 |
0.04% Swine-Flu Vaccine |
98 |
0.03% The Apple Lisa |
99 |
0.03% Prestige Area Codes |
100 |
0.03% Mood Rings |