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Because it had to be said.

The Overrated

 

  1. The Beatles 
  2. Hillary Clinton
  3. The United Nations
  4. Frankenstein
  5. Deer 
  6. Sigmund Freud
  7. Florida
  8. Doctor, police, and lawyer shows on TV such as "ER", "NYPD Blue", and "The Practice"
  9. Jacqueline Bouvier, Kennedy, and Onassis
  10. Any band with more than two boys in it
  11. John Updike
  12. New York City
  13. Gone with the Wind
  14. Mel Gibson
  15. Georg Friedrich Handel
  16. Columbus' navigation skills
  17. Ernest Hemmingway
  18. Almost every single book on the NY Times Bestseller list
  19. Jesse Jackson
  20. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
  21. Herman Hesse
  22. Fish as pets
  23. Eric Clapton
  24. The Greeks
  25. Old fashioned looking posters for Italian liquors that you have never heard of
 

Appropriately Rated

  1. James Dean
  2. Peter Frampton
  3. The NFL
  4. Big Ben
  5. Tom Clancy
  6. Mendocino County, California
  7. Leather jackets
  8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
  9. Star Trek
  10. Sushi

The Underrated

  1. Gustav Mahler
  2. Pompeii cannot be overestimated
  3. Funny Face, a 1956 film with Audrey Hepburn. Audrey in Paris. Audrey as a Beat. Audrey with Astaire. Give us more Audrey.
  4. All U2 albums since "Achtung Baby"
  5. Joe Jackson
  6. Any Orson Wells film
  7. Jackson Pollock
  8. Venice cannot be overestimated
  9. Johann Sebastian Bach cannot be overestimated
  10. Utah
  11. aperitifs
  12. clouds
  13. Celts
  14. The Little Shop Around the Corner, a 1940 film starring Jimmy Stewart
  15. Washington, DC
  16. Owls
  17. Polar bears
  18. Jodie Foster
  19. Beowulf, an epic in Olde English
  20. The Romans
  21. A. Dracula B. Transylvania
  22. Henry Rollins
  23. Fish as food
  24. "Fool in the Rain" by Led Zeppelin
  25. Blue Man Group