Official "Top 5 favorite" list thread

[PopeDirkBenedict]

I'm bored, so here is my starting off point for a top 5 favorites list thread.

My favorite TV characters of all-time:

1. Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show
2. Dwight Schrute, The Office
3. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
4. Ben Stone, Law and Order
5. Martin Crane, Frasier

My five favorite relief pitchers:

1. Ed Olwine
2. Jesse Orosco
3. Rollie Fingers
4. Rich Garces
5. Chuck Crim

My five favorite popsicle flavors:

1. Banana
2. Cherry
3. Lime
4. Strawberry
5. The light blue flavor

 

[Bubbler]

Top 5 MTV Top 100 videos of all-time lists:

1. The one where Heart's These Dreams won.
2. The one where Guns 'n Roses November Rain won.
3. The one where Michael Jackson's Thriller won.
4. The one where a-ha's Take On Me won.
5. The one where Puff Daddy's I'll Be Missing You won.

 

[old_tony]

I'm bored, so here is my starting off point for a top 5 favorites list thread.

My favorite TV characters of all-time:

1. Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show
2. Dwight Schrute, The Office
3. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
4. Ben Stone, Law and Order
5. Martin Crane, Frasier

My five favorite relief pitchers:

1. Ed Olwine
2. Jesse Orosco
3. Rollie Fingers
4. Rich Garces
5. Chuck Crim

My five favorite popsicle flavors:

1. Banana
2. Cherry
3. Lime
4. Strawberry
5. The light blue flavor

Pope, how could you leave root beer off the popsicle flavor list?

1. blue raspberry
2. root beer
3. cherry
4. orange
5. banana

 

[pallister]

5 favorite cartoon characters

Woody Woodpecker
Underdog
Magilla Gorilla
The Pink Panther
Huckleberry Hound

5 favorite superheroes

Captain America
Green Lantern
Spider-Man
Submariner
Iron Man

 

[dooley_womack1]

Top five "top-five favorites" threads:
1. The first one I started.
2. The second one I started.
3. The third one I started.
4. The fourth one I started.
5. This one.

 

[Bubbler]

Top 5 cities where I've had sex (ranked by metro population)

1. New York City
2. Paris
3. Chicago
4. Montreal
5. (tie) Cleveland
5. (tie) St. Louis

I don't know if the Cleveland or St. Louis area is bigger, I'm guessing Cleveland is bigger if you factor in Lorain/Elyria and Akron/Canton. Doesn't matter because I can claim Cleveland proper and Akron/Canton if you want to get technical about it.

I've never ****ed in Lorain/Elyria. Sorry to those who are from there, that area apparently doesn't trip my trigger.

 

[dooley_womack1]

For me, that would be:

1. NYC.
2. Chicago.
3. Miami.
4. Las Vegas.
5. St. Louis.

If self-pleasuring counted, London would bump St. Louis.

 

[Bubbler]

For me, that would be:

1. NYC.
2. Chicago.
3. Miami.
4. Las Vegas.
5. St. Louis.

Damn, I'll bet that was a ****ty night to get clean-up detail at the internet cafe.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Top Five Best Places I've Ever Been Drunk and/or Smoked Weed

1. Firenze, 21st birthday
2. Ninety-Six, South Carolina
3. Times Square
4. St. Tropez
5. North Carolina Mountains

 

[dooley_womack1]

You should have waited, "Beej," I gave you an extra bit of petard to hang me by.

 

[grrlhack]

Top five shots

1. AMF
2. Kamikaze
3. G-spot
4. Tequila
5. Pink P*ssy

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

I'm bored, so here is my starting off point for a top 5 favorites list thread.

My favorite TV characters of all-time:

1. Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show
2. Dwight Schrute, The Office
3. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
4. Ben Stone, Law and Order
5. Martin Crane, Frasier

My five favorite relief pitchers:

1. Ed Olwine
2. Jesse Orosco
3. Rollie Fingers
4. Rich Garces
5. Chuck Crim

My five favorite popsicle flavors:

1. Banana
2. Cherry
3. Lime
4. Strawberry
5. The light blue flavor

Pope, how could you leave root beer off the popsicle flavor list?

1. blue raspberry
2. root beer
3. cherry
4. orange
5. banana

I'm not a big root beer popsicle fan. It's odd: I hate the taste of bananas, but love artificial banana flavoring. On the flip side, I love root beer, but hate artificial root beer flavoring. The artificial flavoring is too sweet and doesn't get the taste right.

Top 5 TV characters whose life I would want:

1. Sam Malone, Cheers
2. Mitch Buchannon, Baywatch
3. Jack McCoy, Law and Order
4. Ray Barone, Everybody Loves Raymond
5. Josh Lyman, West Wing

 

[spup1122]

This reminds me of the episode of the Office (US) where they have a fire in the kitchen and play Desert Island.

Top 5 favorite books

1. The Sun Also Rises
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Not much, just chillin'
4. He's just not that in to You
5. Jane Eyre

 

[Songbird]

I'm bored, so here is my starting off point for a top 5 favorites list thread.

My favorite TV characters of all-time:

1. Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show
2. Dwight Schrute, The Office
3. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
4. Ben Stone, Law and Order
5. Martin Crane, Frasier

My five favorite relief pitchers:

1. Ed Olwine
2. Jesse Orosco
3. Rollie Fingers
4. Rich Garces
5. Chuck Crim

My five favorite popsicle flavors:

1. Banana
2. Cherry
3. Lime
4. Strawberry
5. The light blue flavor

TV characters (in no order)
1. Seinfeld
2. Simpson
3. Bundy
4. Fred Murtz
5. Iron Chef Sakai

(Worst playoff) Relief pitchers
1. Niedenfuer
2. Moore (RIP)
3. Lidge
4. Eck (one bad slider set the tone in '88)
5. can't think of a fifth

Top 5 TV crushes
1. Kelly Bundy
2. Seinfeld girlfriend who laughs like Elmer Fudd on a blender
3. Mayuko Takata (judge on Iron Chef)
4. Alex (DA from Law and Order SVU)
5. Bowflex girl circa '93

 

[Bubbler]

Top 5 things I did on the dumbest day of my life (sometime in August 1992)

5. Failed to bring my wallet, driver's license, etc., on a baseball trip to Tiger Stadium. Oh by the way, I went to a Sunday afternoon game after working third shift, meaning I drove 3 1/2 hours on about 2 1/2 hours of sleep. All I had was my ATM card, some cash, and my Blockbuster card.

4. Assumed the Ohio Turnpike rest areas had ATMs. (They do now, they didn't in 1992)

3. Didn't have enough money in my pocket to cover tickets, food (for me and then-14-year-old Z-Man, my little brother), gas, and most importantly, tolls.

2. Punched and shattered my windshield in a fit of rage (for real, I need little brother Z-Man to confirm, he was there) when I had no money to pay my Ohio Turnpike bill, my lie that my wallet was stolen in the rest area being about as believable to the turnpike Nazis as if I would have said that Bernie Kosar stole it. They made me sit there until I could file a police report. The fit of rage had a lot to do with all of the above, but mostly because ...

1. I got deported from Canada.

Decided to head to Windsor to check it out after the game, not knowing without any form of ID (I had only been to Canada once at the time) I wasn't getting in. When they asked for it, I was like, "I've got my Blockbuster card, will that do?"

They pull me over, interrogate Z-Man, who they apparently thought I was either using as a teen prostitute slave or a drug mule, realize he's my brother (duh, mother****er sounds like me and looks like me, only uglier! ), release him, and has us sign papers.

I thought I was signing some sort of waiver, until I notice it's deportation papers. They send me back into uncoming American traffic from the downtown Detroit tunnel, which was ****ed, so I took a detour onto a Windsor side street to get in the Canadian line. This violated my deportation, so some Dudley Do-Right mountie threatened to arrest me. I just got pissed, hit the accelerator, and headed back to Detroit. America! **** yeah!

Sadly, unlike most of my long stories, that is all 100 percent true. I was a Darwin Award waiting to happen that day.

 

[Bubbler]

Top 5 books I own about the history of the Balkans ...

1. Balkan Ghosts
2. The Balkans
3. Salonica Nights
4. The Making Of Eastern Europe
5. The Other Europe

 

[Songbird]

Books

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Cannery Row
3. The Sun Also Rises
4. The Great Shark Hunt
5. East of Eden

Radio stations
1. EQX
2. KROQ
3. WXND
4. Mighty-690 (old-school SoCalians will remember)
5. Any AM station that picks up MLB baseball along the dark highway.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Top 5 favorite books about American politics that I own:

1. Mutual Contempt -- about LBJ and RFK's rivalry
2. Darkhorse -- the story of the 1880 presidential campaign
3. The Ambition and the Power -- about Jim Wright's fall
4. President Nixon -- most accurate portrayal of RMN yet
5. Master of the Senate -- Caro's masterful LBJ bio

 

[Del_B_Vista]

Movies:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird -- My grandmother said this movie perfectly captured the town she grew up in, Louisville, Miss. (Pronounced: Lewis-ville) Add that to the fact that it's a great movie, and you can debate whether Harper Lee or Truman Capote wrote it, and it's over the top.
2. Das Boot -- I'm an ex-submariner, but our boats had almost nothing in common with WWII boats. The movie perfectly captures the despair of the German U-boat life after the tide turned against them.
3. Citizen Kane -- I don't even know all the cinematorgraphic reasons you're supposed to love this movie. I just think it's cool.
4. Fletch -- Gotta have a comedy on the list, and this flies the flag for Spinal Tap, Caddyshack and Animal House.
5. Manhattan -- There's at least a half-dozen Woody Allen movies that could occupy this spot, but I'll choose this one.

Bands
1. Wilco
2. Any band Ryan Adams is in
3. Old RHCP
4. Prince
5. Chickasaw Mudpuppies (Not really in my top 5, but if anybody has any of their stuff I'd pay to get copies.)

 

[old_tony]

I suppose it would ruin this thread beyond repair if I listed the five Ann Coulter books I have as my top 5, so I'll just list three of them, then the two books Rush wrote. In fact, just forget I said anything.

OK, here is my real top five book list
1. Ball Four -- have re-read it a few times and laughed my ass off every time.
2. Slander, by Coulter -- Sorry, but she really has a way with words
3. Sea Wolf by Jack London
4. Any of the "Fiddler" Mysteries by A.E Maxwell. I've read all 8 and since they contain the same lead characters, I'm calling it just one (and a fun ride).
5. Loose Balls, Terry Pluto's book on the old ABA.

And it's really hard to pick five when there are so many others.

Top five favorite music artists/groups
1. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
2. Little River Band
3. Joe Jackson
4. Nat King Cole
5. Lowen & Navarro
5a. Billy Joe Walker Jr.