Ideas That Are Better Than Alanis Morissette Singing The National Anthem

By Jack Gamble - Man Overboard | Published November 2, 2009

If there are two things a Canadian with a lousy voice should never do, one is play God in a movie. The other is sing The Star Spangled Banner.

So you think it’s a good idea to have a Canadian with a lousy voice sing The Star Spangled Banner for the World Series?  Well, then try this jagged little list of bad ideas.

1.  Steven Segal is Hamlet

2.  New Coke

3. Greedo Shoots First

4.  Steven Hawking on Dancing With The Stars

5.  A game show for kids, Gary Coleman could host

6. Story Book Time, with Denis Rodman

7. Hideki Irabu

8. The new Star Trek movie

9. Picket’s Charge

10. Cash for Clunkers

11. Big Mama’s House 3

12. The Sai Phi Channel

13. The WNBA

14.  The XFL

15. Chris Weber’s 4th timeout

16. Turbo Graphix 16

17. Eddie Murphy’s singing career

18. Hall and No Oats, A Hall-less Oats

19. From Justin to Kelly

20. Sarah Palin’s interview with anyone

21. Dukakis and the tank

22.  Obama bowling

23.  Gore Dancing

24. Ethanol subsidies

25. The Hukabee Show

26. Olivia on the Cosby Show

27. Seven on Married With Children

28. Phys Ed majors

29. Jet Li turning down The Matrix and then signing on for The One

30. Transporter 2 and 3

31. Alan Houston’s contract

32. Letting Reggie White go

33. An entire team for Herschel Walker

34. Drafting Ricky Williams

35. Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan

36. Christian Laettner over Shaq for the Dream Team

37. Repetitive cloning of Baldwin DNA

38. Original Baldwin DNA

39. Round trip tickets for the Titanic

40.  Canceling The State

41.  Vin Deisel doing Fast and the Furious and every Vin Deisel movie since

42. Bloodsport, The Musical (I fight to surviiiiiiiiiiive!)

43. Major League 3, starring Scott Bacula

44. Sinbad…seriously

45. Hosting Family Fued…anyone

46.  Trading The Babe

47. Not letting the goat in

48. The Opti-Grab

49.  Jefferson Starship

50. Jar Jar

~Man Overboard

Image used in this Post

Alanis Morissette photo courtesy of Flickr user Marcia Salviato published under the CC license.

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Jack Gamble - Man Overboard
A former Commercial Fisherman turned Nuclear Engineer. His mouth is matched in size only by his ego. He has earned the surname Man Overboard through his nautical roots and propensity towards overreaction.

8 Comments

  1. Andrew Blanco
    Posted November 3, 2009 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    Eddie Murphy’s singing career should not be on this list. Party all the time?

    Reply
  2. Jonathan Carr, MIS
    Posted November 3, 2009 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    What was wrong with Turbo Graphix 16? CO-PI-PILOT!!

    Worst idea I have heard to date: Boner’s Halloween costume idea a while back – Superman suit in a wheelchair.

    Reply
    • Jack Gamble - Man Overboard
      Posted November 3, 2009 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

      Stupid Co-Pi-Pilot, screwing up my double shields and Level 4 Reflector Blades!

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      • Jonathan Carr, MIS
        Posted November 4, 2009 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

        LOL nice memory. Hey..you going to Walt’s this weekend? You and Giselle should set up a tent…gonna be awesome!

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  3. MusicWiz
    Posted November 3, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

    What are you talking about? Alanis Morissette has an amazing voice! She was on MTV’s top 10 voices of all time. She is a seven time grammy winner.. which include awards for BEST rock VOCAL performance. She is a two Golden Globe nominee. This are the reasons why she gets asked to sing the National Anthem. She is a HUGE major recording artist.

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    • Greg Molyneux
      Posted November 3, 2009 at 3:14 pm | Permalink

      I have to agree with the Wiz on this one. Alanis was not that bad of a choice. Besides, I am not ashamed to admit that I like some of her tunes.

      We could talk about the ironic nature of the choice, but that, much like my joke, would be in poor taste.

      Reply
  4. Jack Gamble - Man Overboard
    Posted November 3, 2009 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

    I suppose I should have included John McCain suspending his campaign.

    Reply

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