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                           May 30, 2001


           The Top 9 Highlights of the Pet Week Parade


  9> Up With Pekingese!

  8> The Bob-Barker-Hung-in-Effigy float

  7> The Canine Bagpipe Corps... hey!  Those aren't bagpipes! 
     Put down those cats!

  6> Feline marchers charging blindly down parade route with 
     their heads stuck in cube-shaped tissue boxes

  5> Butt-Draggin' Drill Team

  4> Former Pythons of Ireland Marching Band

  3> Mardi Paws Float; they won't throw you any beads unless 
     you show them your kitties.

  2> Monkey Shriners in Even Tinier Race Cars


     and the Number 1 Highlight of the Pet Week Parade...


  1> All-cat drill team that doesn't do a single thing it's told



              [   Copyright 2001 by Chris White    ]
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Selected from 31 submissions from 9 contributors.
Today's Top 5 Pets List authors are:
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Judith E. Cottrill, Bronx, NY   --  1, 5, 6 (Purr-fecta! / 1st #1)
Wade Kwon, Birmingham, AL       --  2, 9
Adam Chunn, Houston, TX         --  3
Justin Cascio,  Perth Amboy, NJ --  4, 7
Mark Weiss, Austin, TX          --  5
Melanie Stephens, Manassas, VA  --  6, Topic
Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY      --  7
Bob Van Voris, New York, NY     --  8
Adam Chunn, Houston, TX         --  Runner Up list name
Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY      --  Honorable Mention list name
Bill Strider, Gaithersburg, MD  --  Banner Tag
Sandra Hull, Arlington VA       -- List Vet

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                Highlights of the Pet Week Parade
               RUNNERS UP list  --  Dead Fish Float
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Kitty Hairball Flinging Float
          (Mark Weiss, Austin, TX)

Pets.com Memorial Float
          (Justin Cascio,  Perth Amboy, NJ)

The "I Can Lick My Balls And You Can't" Float
          (Dave Ferry, Leesburg, VA)

The "Tribute to the Hairball" Marching Glee Club singing "All 
Choked Up"
          (Dave Ferry, Leesburg, VA)

The Revenge of the Giant Purina Stagecoach
          (Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY)


Runner Up list name
          (Adam Chunn, Houston, TX)

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                Highlights of the Pet Week Parade
            HONORABLE MENTION list  --  Marching Bland
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Canine Salute to Postal Workers, featuring a banner pieced 
together from bite-sized scraps of uniforms
          (Melanie Stephens, Manassas, VA)

Gigantic float comprised of colorful hairballs, rejected cat toys
and thousands of cans of cat food that Kitty "just doesn't like 
anymore"
          (Judith E. Cottrill, Bronx, NY)

"Salute to Journalism", featuring cats laying across thousands of 
open magazines and newspapers
          (Judith E. Cottrill, Bronx, NY)
          (Melanie Stephens, Manassas, VA)

Muffy Meanderers, who weave their way through every pair of legs
lining the parade route
          (Judith E. Cottrill, Bronx, NY)

Ruined-wicker-furniture float decorated with kitty-strafed silk 
flowers
          (Judith E. Cottrill, Bronx, NY)


Honorable Mention list name
          (Jeff Scherer, Brooklyn, NY)



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