The MoT Top 10: The Twenty-Eighth

General Hospital is the longest running American soap opera still in production and the third-longest running American drama. Wow, what interesting facts DeMi! (sarcastic excitement). Before we continue, it should be made clear that this Top 10 is not entirely about General Hospital. More fun facts: 12,987 episodes at 42 minutes each. It would take 376 days to watch every episode; longer still since it's still running. The point of this killer intro is if the writers of GH can continually recycle plot lines and revive deceased characters for over a year's worth of material, surely DeMi can bring back the Top 10.

Here are the Top 10 Things Younger Than General Hospital:

10) The Beatles in America

9) The NASDAQ exchange

8) Assassination of John F. Kennedy

7) MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech

6) The nanosecond - You couldn't have watched GH in nanoseconds, because you wouldn't have known what a nanosecond was

5) Our moms

4) The Clean Air Act

3) Women in space

2) Zip codes

1) Hepatitis-B vaccine - If a patient at General Hospital were diagnosed with Hep-B before 1980, they would be SOL.


Just Missed the Cut
Here are a few things that have been around slightly longer than GH:

Michael Jordan

Valium

Obama

The smiley face

This is the first smiley face design introduced to popular culture. That's right, the first fucking smiley. We only have content of the highest quality here at MoT.

-DeMi

The MoT Top 10: The Fifteenth

Top 10 Things Mothers Are Better At

A very happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! DeMi are certainly grateful to have such wonderful role models in their lives.

10) Remembering where you last put your whatsit or whosit. So many times did they come through in the clutch five minutes before leaving for school.

9) Making food. Even if it's Kraft Mac and Cheese, her's is best. They've been good at it since you were breast feeding..'nuff said.

8) Doing your elementary school project. It's second grade and you have to make a model of a typical Native American abode..and your parent's can "help"....right...

7) Giving you lists of things to do when you have "too much free time". Mop the floors, mow the lawn, dust the shelves, clean the bathroom, wax your dad's head..wait what?

6) Giving you fun ideas by telling you what not to do. Sorry Mom.

5) Making staying home sick from school so awesome

4) Telling you really embarrassing stories about your dad

3) Reminding you that you're not as ugly as you think you are. "Because every kid is beautiful in their mother's eyes."

2) Forgiving you. Crashed the car? Might be grounded for "eternity", but that roof over your head sure is nice.

1) Teaching you important life lessons. Who else is going to teach you how to hotwire a car, or pickpocket people on the subway? But really, their countless platitudes might get annoying at times, but you know they've always got your back.

-DeMi