[R E Bolick]

Awright, Bugsy, I'm calling in the exterminators ... hmm, I've banned further exterminators. Ok, new rule: no changing the subject of previous submissions! Edits for meter, diction, rhyme, and punctuation allowed. Multiple submissions (different subjects) are allowed. W.C. Fields keeps you on the island.

Jan, the judges have demurred over whether the Lindbergh-baby-kidnapping was the sickest American crime of a decade that included organized crime wars including the St. Valentine Day's Massacre and also lynchings galore. And the pernicketiest judge deducted points for the missing "h."

Michael, you just got me banned from the family room for excessive guffawing. Living in CT, I ask, where is the like of Packer and his appetite now that we really need them? All hail, king of the comedy side of the island.

Orwn, the judges have tiptoed around your Tiny Tim entry and are wavering due to its excessive metrical substitutions. Editing and revision allowed, just don't change the subject! For now, you have a toe on the island.

Sorry, Roger, thought it was implicit -- dead famous and infamous Americans only. I.e., physically dead, not just dead between the ears.

Congratulations, L. Perkins, on your commemoration of the biggest CYA scheme in America. You're on the island.

Latest summary of restrictions and exceptions:

No more blazers of the Cumberland Gap.
No more exterminators cum naturalists
No more Vice Presidents
No more South Carolinians
No more early talkies stars.
No more Sixties pop stars.
No more cannibals.
No more clothing merchants. Sorry, Wanamaker, Macy, and Roebuck.

Relatives by blood or marriage of previously accepted figures are allowed.
No changes to the subject of previous submissions.
Edits to meter, rhyme, diction, and punctuation allowed.
Multiple submissions allowed.

ToC so far: Audubon, Agnew, Boone, W.C. Fields, Herbert Buckingham Khaury (aka Tiny Tim; tentative), F. Marion, , A. Packer (ranked funniest so far), the Strauss brothers (Levis, not waltzes).

Regards,
BobB