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Name 5 things no office should ever be without
coffee maker
refrigerator
backup power supply
sticky notes
pens
Name brands of candy or gum that are no longer produced.
CIAS, those are shortcomings more than "nicknames," don't you think?
Reset!
Name five ancient tribes/nations native to South or Central America.
Olmec
Aztec
Maya
Inca
Moche
Name five tribes/nations native to North America.
How about the Five Civilized Tribes Five Nations That Didn't Actively (and deservedly, in most cases) Loathe Us And Even Learned Some English? :D
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Choctaw
Creek
Seminole
Name five places where gambling is legal.
Atlantic City
Las Vegas
Monte Carlo
Detroit
Cleveland (our first casino to open next week!)
Name five characters in The Avengers.
Thor
Tony Stark
Nick Fury
Steve Rogers
Bruce Banner
Name Five Characters from the Alien Films
Ellen Ripley
Newt
Bishop
Vasquez
... Bill Paxton? (Private William Hudson, apparently)
Name 5 movies with Ron Perlman in the cast.
Quest for Fire
The City of Lost Children
Hellboy
Alien Resurrection
Star Trek Nemesis
Name five movie bad guys of the past 20 years.
Loki (The Avengers)
Guy of Lusignan (Kingdom of Heaven)
Col. Nathan Jessup (A Few Good Men)
Cal Hockley (Titanic)
Bill (Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2)
Name five courtroom drama films.
Breaker Morant
Inherit the Wind
Presumed Innocent
Runaway Jury
A Time to Kill
The first is my favorite.
Name five military movies that don't focus on actual battlefield action.
Private Benjamin
Sgt. Bilko
Good Morning, Vietnam
A Few Good Men
Men of Honor
Name five classic sports movies.
Field of Dreams
Friday Night Lights
Bull Durham
The Mighty Ducks
A League of Their Own
Name 5 Michael Bay movies.
How fast can I type while holding my nose? Let's see:
Transformers
Armageddon
Bad Boys
Pearl Harbor
The Rock
OK, palate cleanser: Name 5 really awesome movies that not enough people saw.
The Hidden
Breaker Morant
Memento
The Package
Limitless
The last is my favorite movie of all last year - shut out of the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc., alas.
Name five overrated actors (not actresses).
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Hugh Laurie
Patrick Stewart
Al Pacino
Name five underrated actors (not actresses).
Stanley Tucci
Mark Strong
Andrew Lincoln
Anthony LaPaglia
John Mahoney
Name five overrated actresses (not actors).
Renee Zellweger
Angelina Jolie
ZOOEY DESCHANEL
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Julia Roberts
Name five underrated actresses (not actors).
Diane Lane
Glenne Headly
Keira Knightley
Louise Fletcher
Frances McDormand
Name five pop songs that make you lunge to change the radio station.
Ack...most of the ones I jump to change, I don't know the names of!
Neon Trees, "Everybody Talks"
Neon Trees, "Animal"
Foster the People, "Pumped up Kicks"
Mumford & Sons, "Sigh no More"
anything by Adele
Name five movies that, if you catch them in the middle of the film while flipping channels, you're pretty much hooked in until the end.
I really like "Animal," and several songs of Adele's. The rest I'm meh about. Oh, well!
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Trading Places
True Lies
The Hidden
Casablanca
Name five especially talented film directors.
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Luc Besson
Quentin Tarantino
Alfonso Cuaron
Name five crummy film directors.
Harold P. Warren (Manos: Hands of Fate)
Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky)
Willard Huyck (Howard the Duck)
Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth)
Name five movies you want to see this summer.
Snow White and the Huntsman
The Dark Knight Rises
Prometheus
Brave
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
(Also Spiderman)
Name 5 cartoons you watched as a child.
He-Man
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Voltron
Name five foods you loved as a kid, but not so much now.
(Orual, those are all on my to-see list, too!)
Fish with my mom's famous glaze - seems incredibly salty to me now
Strawberry milk - too sweet for me nowadays, pretty much
Hostess fruit pies - 'way too much fat
Bubble gum - too much sugar; uncouth
Waffles - just don't enjoy them as much; hard to say why
I have to say, though, that I've retained most of my childhood tastes for food.
Name five memorable movie villains.
Darth Vader
Hannibal Lecter
The Joker (give me the Heath Ledger version)
Principal Ed Rooney
Lord Voldemort
Name five movies with amazing special effects (now, or for their era).
Star Wars - well, everything
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - the UFOs
Titanic - pretty much everything, too
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - the liquid-metal assassin
The Abyss - the aliens; the pseudopod
Name five of your relatives' first names.
Michael
Elizabeth
Gabriel
Adam
Abigail
(Those are my kids.)
Name five names that could easily be for a man or a woman.
Jordan
Devin
Kendall
Grayson
Robin
Name five Doctor Seuss characters.
Bartholomew Cubbins (!)
The Lorax
The Cat in the Hat
Thing 1
Thing 2
Name 5 television shows with rabid fan bases.
Star Trek
Firefly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lost
American Idol
Name five TV shows you regret were cancelled.
Sledge Hammer
Transformers (the 80s version)
Six Feet Under (I only watched it years afterwards on DVD, but I was sad when it ended.)
Bizarre (it was the naughty, after-the-parents-were-asleep guilty pleasure of my childhood)
The Joker's Wild (My favorite TV game show of my parents' era...)
Name five "comic relief" characters from popular fiction.
Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
The argumentative Italian and French officers in Casablanca
Dets. Thompson and Thompson in Tintin
Bill Murray in Tootsie
The nerdy accountant in Ghostbusters
Name five more-or-less serious characters in a popular comedy (book, film or TV).
The mayor in Ghostbusters
The receptionist on Veep
K in Men in Black
Jeeves in the Jeeves & Wooster stories
Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H
Name five great roles of your favorite actor.
General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove
Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
General George S. Patton in Patton
Bert Gordon in The Hustler
John Rainbird in Firestarter
Name five great roles of your favorite actress.
Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth
Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings
Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
Marissa Wiegler in Hanna
Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal
Name five video games you enjoy playing.
Final Fantasy VII
Tomb Raider
Sly II
Ratchet and Clank
Okami
Name 5 video game heroes
Cloud Strife
Pac-Man
Max Payne
Kratos
Sonic
Name 5 video game villains or end bosses.
Nemesis
Pyramid Head
Doc Oc
The Joker
Bowser
Name five famous horses.
Trigger
Secretariat
Cigar
Seattle Slew
Mr. Ed
Name five famous people who emigrated to the United States since 1900.
Albert Einstein
Jennifer Granholm
Madeline Albright
Ahnuld
Golda Meir
Name five notable prime ministers from five different countries.
Julia Gillard
Tony Blair
Benjamin Netanyahu
Pierre Trudeau
Indira Gandhi
Name 5 classic comic strip authors
Bill Watterson
Gary Larson
Charles Schulz
Jim Davis
Bil Keane
Name five famous comic strips that are now defunct.
Calvin and Hobbes
The Yellow Kid
Agatha Crumm
Dondi
Tim Tyler's Luck
Name five famous comic strips that really ought to be defunct.
I picked up a copy of the newspaper, and once I did, it was hard to limit myself to five. Man, comic strips suck.
The Family Circus
Cathy
Tank McNamara
Pearls Before Swine
The Lockhorns
Name five really great moments in your life.
Getting an acceptance letter from my first-choice college.
Stepping off the plane in Micronesia, knowing I was about to start a tropical island adventure.
The birth of my son.
Pulling off a very successful and clever 50th birthday party for my husband.
A day at George's Island off the coast of Boston - much too complicated a story to explain in a single phrase, but a day of wonderful adventure and unexpected bonding
I feel like my wedding should be on the list, but as much as I adore my husband, the wedding itself was a drag - my mother, possibly the only person in the universe to take the "Preppy Handbook" as an actual guide for how to lead one's life, planned and executed the whole thing. My husband and I dutifully endured it. Perhaps "going to Burger King at midnight together after the wedding was over" should be on my list; we both remember our relief and happiness at that moment very fondly.
Name five TV sitcom nerds, from five different shows. For purposes of this thread, I shall define "TV sitcom nerd" as "a character who is so intelligent that their brains interfere with their social functioning, and that's a running gag of the show."
Abed Nadir, Community
Steve Urkel, Family Matters
Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd
Martin Prince, The Simpsons
Phil & Lem, Better Off Ted
Name 5 well-known/popular/cultish TV shows that you just have never been able to get into.
Dr. Who
Lost
Blackadder
Dallas
Survivor
Name five movies you know you ought to see but just never have.
Shaun of the Dead
Gone with the Wind
Gandhi
The Blair Witch Project
Slumdog Millionaire
Name five film sequels that fell horribly short of the original(s).
The Matrix: Reloaded
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Men in Black II
Batman & Robin
Spiderman 3
Name 5 non-talking animal characters in movies.
Hooch, from Turner &
Marley, from & Me
Kangaroo Jack
Benji
King Kong
Name five famous trees.
Banyan
Sequoia
Oak
Elm
Maple
Name 5 divided islands - that is, islands that contain more than one country. (Hint: there are several in my neck of the woods.)
Hispaniola (Dominican Republic / Haiti)
Papua (Indonesia / Papua New Guinea)
Ireland (Ireland / Northern Ireland)
Borneo (Indonesia / Malaysia)
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina / Chile)
Name five rulers who were killed in uprisings by their own people.
Charles I of England
Louis XVI of France
Montezuma of the Aztecs
Macbeth of Scotland
Richard III of England
Name five states the U.S. could afford to lose, and why.
nm
Kansas
Arizona
Vermont
Delaware
North Dakota
If only because they sound the most boring of all the states, that I can even remember
Name 5 English Counties without looking them up
It's amazing how quickly they started to come to me once I thought of one or two; I could probably name 15-20 more, which I would never have guessed I could do.
Surrey
Devon
Cornwall
Sussex
York
Name five entertainers who have been knighted during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Paul McCartney
Elton John
Keith Richards
Judi Dench
David Bowie
And I object to Vermont's inclusion on CIAS's list! My wife's from there. It's a very nice place.
Name five people whom the Queen should posthumously honour, if Parliament authorized it.
Alan Turing (Yes, I know he's OBE, but he should be a knight. Hell, he should be king.)
Rosalind Franklin
Freddie Mercury
Oscar Wilde
Mick Ronson
Name five holidays that you find silly or senseless.
Arbor Day
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (purposefully so, of course)
Sweetest Day
Administrative Professionals Day
Evacuation Day
Name five other people whom the Queen should posthumously honour, if Parliament authorized it.
Here, I'll get you started:
J.R.R. Tolkien
William Wilberforce
William Shakespeare
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Name 5 "cures" for the common cold
That's a great list, CIAS! Add Tolkien and Isaac Newton, and I think you've pretty much swept the field.
Chicken soup
Bed rest
Gargling warm salt water
Hanging a cold key on the back of your neck
Eat a lot ("Feed a cold....")
Name five movies you hope to see before the end of the year
the new Spider-Man
the new Batman
Ted
the Total Recall remake
the new Bourne movie
Name five things you'd find on the menu at a German restaurant.
Spaetzle.
Wiener Schnitzel.
Sauerbraten.
Liver dumpling soup.
Apfelstrudel.
Name five Polish foods.
mmm...Polish food...
pierogi
sledz
golabki
kielbasa
bigos
Name five people competing in these Olympic games.
Alexandr Vinokurov
Mariel Zagunis
Brendan Hansen
Wojdan Shaherkani
Guor Marial
Name five sports you only get interested in once every four years.
women's gymnastics (sorry fellas)
men's power lifting (sorry ladies)
platform diving
judo
curling (seriously!)
Name five sports that could disappear from the Olympics and you wouldn't miss.
With apologies to their fans....
curling
beach volleyball
synchronized diving
synchronized swimming
table tennis
Name five more stunts Her Majesty should do in the next five years
Base jump off of Big Ben.
Dress up as Boudica and yell at some Roman reenactors.
Pull a sword out of a stone.
Swim the English Channel.
Race Prince Charles on dirtbikes somewhere around Balmoral.
Name five non-British royals.
Emperor Akihito of Japan
King Mohammed VI of Morocco
King Abdullah II of Jordan
King Juan Carlos of Spain
Prince Albert II of Monaco
Name five cities that should've hosted an Olympics, but haven't yet.
Cairo, Egypt
Nairobi, Kenya
Lima, Peru
Istanbul, Turkey
Jakarta, Indonesia
Name five world records beaten this year.
Time for a different category, maybe?
I'm changing it up!
Name 5 things you like about autumn.
Crisp air
Leaves changing colors
Apple cider
Halloween
Beautiful clear nights
Name five things you'll regret about summer ending.
Long Summer Days ending
Schools start again screwing up public transport
Having to sweep up leaves
he fact it vanished into nowhere yet again.
The Christmas countdown starts
Name 5 things you would not want to find in a sandwich
Toenail clippings
Hair
Carrots
Phlegm
Jimmy Hoffa
Name five places you're pretty sure Jimmy Hoffa isn't
In London Bridge
At the bottom of the Marianas Trent
Under Grand Central Station
Atop the Empire State Building
In the Ark of the Covenant
Name five dangerous animals that look cute
Dingo
Lion cub
Tiger cub
Chimp
The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
Name five good reasons to vote
A few women went to some trouble so that I could
It makes more sense than yelling at the TV new
It's a useful reaction to learning where politicians stand on issues of importance
I know far too many people who shouldn't be in the majority
I like the little sticker
Name five published parodies of the Fifty Shades trilogy.
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey
Fifty Sheds of Grey
50ShadesOfAndyGray
The Christian Grey
50 Shades of Shit
Name five things no Thanksgiving meal should be without
Turkey (or a reasonable facsimile thereof for the vegetarians)
Pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Eggnog
Stuffing
Name five classic Christmas specials
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
Olive the Other Reindeer
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Name five holiday specials that must never, ever be made.
The Star Wars Holiday Prequel
A Christmas Carol II: Scrooge Was Right
The Boxing Day Sioux Executions
Christmas with Honey Boo Boo
Yuletide Animal Sacrifices
Name five beverages best consumed in winter.
Eggnog
Hot mulled cider
Hot cocoa
Earl Grey tea
More eggnog
Name five gifts you'd rather not get this Christmas... but that you just might.
Socks
Undies
Deodorant
Shower gel
After shave
Name 5 animals native to Australia (try not to cheat).
I'd forgotten all about this game!
duckbill platypus
kangaroo
dingo
koala bear
drop bear
Name five U.S. Vice Presidents who did not become President
Sarah Palin
Donald Rumsfeld
Mitt Romney
Glen Beck
Homer Simpson
Name 5 shades of blue
Vermilion
Sky
Onyx
Ash
Flesh
Name the fivemost adjectives and/or substantives used by a symbolist poet
death
life
man
woman
sorrow
Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Bzzt. None of them ever served as Vice President.Quote:
Originally posted by spitz
Trying again:
Name five U.S. Vice Presidents who did not become President
Oh grief, let's give this a go.
Joe Biden
Dick Cheney
Dan Quayle
Al Gore
Walter Mondale
How did I do??
Name five landlocked European countries.
Very nice, although it might be too soon to say for Biden....
Switzerland
Belarus
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Andorra
Name five classical composers.
Beethoven
Mozart
Bach (take your pick)
Haydn
Rachmaninov
Name 5 pieces of Aussie slang.
G'day
barbie
prawns
sheila
tucker
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about Aussies.
surfing
all bloody drongoes/convicts
all alcoholics
bouncing around in a kangaroo's pouch
strange relations with NZ
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about Americans.
uncultured
eat Velveeta
love guns
hate subtitles
loathe Frenchmen
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the British.
Polite
Bad food
Bad teeth
At best when things are desperate
Love tea
Name 5 famous sports figures from 50 years ago or more.
Babe Didrickson
Jim Thorpe
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Babe Ruth
Sonja Henie
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the French.
rude
dandies
perfectionists with food
obsessed with cheese
nation of boozers
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the Russians.
Drink waaaaay too much vodka
Aggressive
Yearn to be led by a strongman
Secretive
Ugly women
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the Japanese.
Love eating seafood
Weird obsession with blood types
Extremely oldschool and traditional
Extremely futuristic and modern
Harakiri
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the Canadians.
Never heard that about the Japanese and blood types. Do you have an example?
As to Canadians:
Unfailingly polite
End every sentence with "eh"
Love coffee and pastry
Resent their neighbor to the south
Have either a moose or a beaver in every third backyard
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the Chinese.
Here ya go EH http://geekykristie.tumblr.com/post/...in-japan-it-is
Loud eaters
Macho men
Rugged terrain
Loves food
Will fight
Name stereotypes about the French
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about the French.
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rude
dandies
perfectionists with food
obsessed with cheese
nation of boozers
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about Ukraine.
Corrupt
Radiation-obsessed
Little fish, big pond
Under the thumb of Uncle Joe
Proud nationalists
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about adventurers
Wow. I had no idea - thanks!Quote:
Originally posted by spitz
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about adventurers
fearless
wear fedoras
still use map and compass
seldom bathe
mostly male
Name 5 stereotypes (accurate or not) about Brazilians.
They love waxes
The men look like sissies
Knows a lot about crushing poverty
Probably pretty suntanned
Knows better than to go on walkabout in the jungle
List five facts (or lies) about veterans of foreign wars
Boast of their former glory
Get fat and don't fit into their old uniforms
Love seeing war movies
Hate hippies and peaceniks
Always politically conservative
List five facts (or lies) about fishermen.
5 opinions about sport fisherman
Not afraid to get their hands dirty
Likes being outside
Drink all the beer you want, just don't fuck up the lines
Knows some good old folk tunes
Doesn't mind sitting alone for long periods of time.
List five facts or lies or factoids about commercial fishermen
Very hard-working
Doesn't mind danger
Rude and crude
Bearded
Usually wet
List five facts (or lies) about cops.
Clean-cut
Frustrated ex-enlisted military
Inept at many things
Inept at manly things
Either fat or vain
List 5 true things about any of the seven US uniformed services
Their superior officers rip their butts for uniform violations
Strict pay-grades
Each service thinks they're better than the rest
Unarmed services are kind of dumb people who struggle with basic science
Every service has a different standard of physical fitness
There are five things or people in the world worse than you behind the wheel during an ice storm. List them.
A cocker spaniel
A small pool of goo
A toddler
My sister
Donald Trump
Name five things you love about winter
Absence of heat
Crisp air
Food smells/tastes better
Creativity seems to boost in winter (YMMV)
Nicer light/shadow interplay.
Name 5 former Australian Prime Ministers.
Chris Watson
Robert Menzies
Kevin Rudd
John Howard
Harold Holt
Name five movies, out now or coming soon, that you hope to see
Whatever Tarantino does next
" Nolan " "
" Scorsese " "
" Rodriguez " "
Whatever stars Lenore Watkin
There are five things you detest, that you occasionally, but feebly, do something about
Ingratitude - so I will sometimes say "You're welcome!" to people who don't say "Thank you"
Hunger - so I give to a local food bank, and sometimes buy lunch for homeless people
Historical ignorance - so I give speeches on historic topics to local groups
People who don't vote - so I encourage them to do so, and suggest good candidates if they ask
Bad candidates - so I sometimes donate to their opponents, and vote against them
Name five things you hate about staying in the hospital
five things about being in the hospital
Sassy staff
Fatass nurses
Slowass elevators
Germs
Seeing debilitated people
[/b]Name five things that are A-OK about the hospital[/b]
World-class surgical skills
Capable pain management
Nice art on the walls
Caring doctors and nurses
Going home on time
Name five Baroque composers
Bach (JS)
Vivaldi
Buxtehude
Handel
Scarlatti
Name five good composers (of Western art music)
Huh. Never heard that phrase before, but I see this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_music, so....
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Liszt
Mascagni
Brahms
Name five historical injustices.
Racism
Groupthink
Government by committee
Cruelty -- physical and mental
Wanton harm
Name five good things from history
yes, I believe "Western Art music" is one of the preferred terms. It's about the easiest to say and to suppose to have been understood, and that's why I used it.
Heroes and heroines to emulate
Come-from-behind victories that inspire
The spread of liberty and democracy
Better understanding of the world today
Lots and lots of good books
Name five mythical beasts.
Oh, jeez. OK.
Chimeras
Griffons (sp?)
Goat-boys
Meduas
Hydras
No, I'm not going to risk being a boob and trying to use the classical forms -- Mark Twain, etc etc
List five good things you can see from where you are sitting right now
Picture of my son
State flag pin
"I Voted" sticker
Obama-Biden campaign button
Homemade apple pie for tonight
Name five kinds of pie you would never, ever want to eat.
Stomach
Eye
Foot
Bone
Head
Name five pretty good pies which don't include hair
Pumpkin
Cherry
Apple
Pecan
Blueberry
Name five slang phrases for the female genitalia
Wow. I was really hoping I wouldn't have to be the one. Jeez, man. That's a hell of a question.
Bacon strips
Hair pie
Vag
Holiest of holies
Slit
Getting back on track (you fucking pervert!)
Name five words you associate with the Rockwellian (Norman, not Lew) Thanksgiving Dinner
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/pho...89-375-479.jpg
turkey
smiles
hungry
grandparents
family
Name five things you need to do this week
Yet another ball-busting suggestion. There are five things I need to (or should have already done) today, you mug!
OK, fine.
Register for classes
Practice some fairly-sophisticated recursion techniques (albeit for elementary data structures)
Write a letter with EXACTLY the right tone (a mixture of disguised contempt and polite deference)
Clean all the beer bottles and empty wine boxes out of my apartment
Find out where a FedEx drop off site is convenient to me and box and ship a bricked box under warranty).
Name five unpleasant tasks you need (or maybe want) to do this week.
listen to a forever-griping colleague
pick up a birthday cake for another colleague
sweep up nails from our neighbor's re-roofing project (long story)
walk the dog yet again
clean up cat poop
Name five songs that always make you smile (with YouTube links)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0u_qba_13Q]dr john
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaFDFP7m_E]idle moments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsA4L...]beeth op. 126
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEJvEwk4ulk]sunny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08q5...in e for piano
Look, man, this doesn't work b/c youtube isn't hip anymore.
So, for the sake of argument, my choices (last minute) were:
Dr John "Stagolee"
Grant Green "Idle Moments"
Brendel playing Beethoven's Op. 126 Bagatelles
mcDuff playing "Sunny"
Gould playing the I of Bach's e-minor Partita for piano.
List five music performances that should be deleted from the catalog
Abandon all musical hope, ye who listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFHWl-ZyRAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWz88VY-FkA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0
List five sights that always make you smile.
Sacre' Coeur
Midtown manhattan
rolling hills full of wheat (or whatever)
a nice (insert preferred gender) ass
a tall glass of beer when my present one is done.
List five people who make you smile
Obviously my wife and sons, but I'll go with people you know of:
Steve Martin
Mike Birbiglia
Steven Wright
Eddie Murphy
Bill Murray
List five people who make you frown.
Tim Robbins
Bob Hope
Joel or Ethan Coen
Stanley Kubrick
Serio-comedy person
Name five landmarks in the world you will not see
The huge creepy hotel in Pyongyang
Castro's presidential palace in Havana
The Taj Mahal
North Pole
South Pole
Name five year-end holiday customs you have
I don't know.
Spend xmas eve with close family.
Party like it's 1999 (in my mind)
Curse bitterly secular xmas music (except Guaraldi's)
Avoid crowded places, like malls, including the televised mall that is television "specials"
Dress in muted, wintery tones
Name five good things about xmas that don't relate to family
Eggnog
Christmas music
Cheerier crowds
Presents from friends
The good news of Jesus's birth
Name five things you look forward to in the New Year
Budgeting my money better
World peace
The marginalization of pop culture
Continuing to keep in touch with old friends
Becoming as cold and indifferent and cynical to as many more things as possible
List them: fashion tips for the New Year
No socks with sandals
No dark socks with shorts
No dickies, ever
No Spandex on anyone over age 20
Now mandatory for all men: Bow Tie Fridays!
Five rules for your perfect world
Sensible footwear (which does not include exposing your disgusting toenail habits and foul blisters to the world, such as those who fail to wear sandals acceptably in public)
Fuck the color of the socks. They're either good socks or they aren't.
Dickies for a dick -- Levis for a Levi.
No spandex in public, anywhere, except a beach salon.
Bow tie this, motherhonker.
Five non-fashion rules for good world
Treat others as you wish to be treated.
Obey the law; strive to change bad laws.
Be an informed voter.
Volunteer in some capacity to help others.
Give generously to the charities of your choice.
Five things you wouldn't mind getting for Christmas (or a similar holiday).
a NEWWWWWW CARRRRR! (that I can sell)
eidetic memory
a shitload of money
no taxes
world peace
There are five things that don't suck about your average reasonable person. List them, in order of goodness.
eta eggnog is gross, dude. have a glass of whiskey and an omelette. qed
Unlikely to commit murder
Loves his or her kids
Will help others if it's not too inconvenient
Votes at least in major elections
Obeys most traffic laws
(Eggnog with rum and a sprinkling of nutmeg is one of the zillion or so best things about Christmas. Don't you judge me!)
Name five things within arm's reach of you right now.
Cell phone.
Coffee thermos.
Chromebook.
Coat
Cellophane bag of pipe tobacco.
List five unfortunate side effects of cellular society
forgot eggnog was a rum drink -- OK, maybe that's the only way make rum as delicious as whiskey (or however you spell it).
Shorter attention span
Rudeness
Superficiality
Shouting in elevators
Obligatory scene in all contemporary horror movies to show that the star can't get a signal
List five horror movies you've seen.
The Innocents
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
The Exorcist
Exorcist: The Beginning
Dominion Prequel to The Exorcist
LIst five bad movies you have seen
Manos Hands of Fate - Classic bad movie.
Hoodwinked - Kids' movie; I fell asleep.
Draft Day - Football movie that just made no sense.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Meh to the Nth degree.
Liquid Sky - Dear Lord, it's horrible. Promise me you'll never see it.
List five of your favorite movies.
Lawrence of Arabia
The Right Stuff
The Magnificent Ambersons
A Woman Under The Influence (or Gator)
Blue Velvet
There are five famous movies you have never got around to seeing. List them.
Schindler's List
Fight Club
Goodfellas
City of God
American History X
Jizzel, I just saw Blue Velvet again, for only the second time since it came out, a month or so ago! Still holds up well. A creepy masterpiece.
Name five suitable names for an English butler.
James
Wentworth
Kensington
Chesterfield
Davenport
List five good names for a maid
I'm aghast at your last list, EH! Well, I only saw AmHistX semi-recently just killing time, and I never saw SchindList, and only might have seen CityGod (is that the one with Constantine and stuff? Cause a movization of the Aquinas book would be cool, but I don't think so. But *Goodfellas*? OK, *Fight Club* I only saw like six years after it came out, but still.
And, yes, *BV* *does* hold up! Goddam right! Fuck Heinekin.
sorry for the font size -- put your glasses on, already, gramps! I was compelled to look up....CityGod....that won a bunch of awards and shit. I was thinking of *Kingdom of Heaven*, which was all right, I guess. So, no longer that aghast, since I haven't seen 2 out of 5 of your list either. Anyway, carry on. Obsessive addendum, OUT!
I just looked down the IMDb.com Top 250 list, and named the five highest-rated flicks I hadn't seen... and perhaps never will.
Five good names for a maid:
Claudette
Philippa
Helene
Brigitte
Veronique
Because of course she has to be young, curvy, eager to please and French. Duh.
Name five kinds of employees you will probably never have.
Tweaker
Glamour-tatoo
Glamorous-piercing
Dumbass
Fashion-people
Name five jobs that don't involve being a hired-gun middle-man that are good
i didn't say FRENCH maids! HFS! Wow. What about Molly and Bridget and Tricia and so forth! You watched *Clue too many times!
I only saw Clue once, so that can't be it. I just like the concept of sexy French maids. :: shrugs ::
Name five jobs that don't involve being a hired-gun middle-man that are good
Architect
Lawyer
Doctor
Author
Scientist
Name five things never seen in any version of Star Trek
Dr Carol Marcus getting her pants off
What? See number one.
Rich, cordoba leather unveiled.
The cooking, and stuff.
Denny Crane.
List five special moments you will never experience
My 300th birthday
Being seduced by a trio of French maids
Kissing my 30th grandchild
Setting foot on Pluto
Sending a PM to the millionth Mellophant member
Mind you, some of these things are remotely possible....
List five particularly lame stocking-stuffers
A handful of loose, unwrapped hard candies.
A few golf pencils
A toy mouse made of rubber
A few unpleasant polaroids
A porno for a different gender
Name five ways of describing weekends, in general
boring
fantastic
interesting
laid-back
Velco-riffic
Name five as-yet-unknown uses for Velcro
Moustache hair-removal for women
Back hair-removal for men (and women -- trust me, I've seen it, and felt it, actually, in the dark)
(hook side) -- eyeglass scratch-remover
Flea circus golf course astroturf
Flea circus football astroturf
Name five awesome hobbies that don't interest you
Golf
Bungee-jumping
Jogging
Dog breeding
Collecting recordings of pre-1950 Bolivian sheepherding calls
Name five good reasons to visit Bolivia.
(i) fancy hats
(ii) fried guinea pigs
(iii) mountains
(iv) indians
(v) close to other good nations
Name five good facts about South America
Military rulers much less common now
Everyone speaks Spanish except those damn Brazilians
Amazon River is just amazing
Generally friendly to the U.S.
Argentines so cute when they insist the Falklands, er, Malvinas belong to them
Five excuses the Argentines have for not actually possessing the Falklands
Too busy eating BBQ
Some cows got loose
Too big a country, too small a leader
English are really tough, not
Thatcher wears army boots
The five least memorable events of the 1980s
George H.W. Bush wins Republican nomination in 1988
Wham! breaks up
Reagan's colonoscopy
Johnny Carson's eight millionth show
Diff'rent Strokes cancelled
Five memorable events, 1901-10
Hilbert's program [eta meant to say the problems, not his philosophical concerns] [etta i see those were 1900 at that conference -- but don't nitpick on Ehusserl's *LU* -- those were in two parts, which is why they're usually called in-line *Husserl, 1900/1901*]
EdmHuss's *Logical Investigations* published.
Death of McKinley
Beginning of the rise of the automobile
Flying machines! That worked!
Five good reasons to be slightly zen with being super-pissed at a blood relative/friend
This, too, shall pass
Hey, you might outlive him
It's not the end of the world, after all
You've probably done something to upset him/her, too, at one time or another
To err is human; to forgive, divine; to moo, bovine
Five memorable events, 1910-20
OK, we can stick with the history theme.
The Great War
Wittgenstein's *Tractatus*
Proust got real, yo
Austria-Hungary and the end of an empire
Lvov-Warsaw logicians got real, yo
Five facts about the US Civi War that the average person doesn't know
I'm a huge Civil War buff!
George Dewey, hero of the Spanish-American War, was a young naval officer during the Civil War.
The Confederacy did not lay a single mile of new railroad track during the entire war; they had a hard enough time maintaining the railroads they had.
The Confederate charge at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. in Nov. 1864 involved more troops, covered more ground and took longer than Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, Pa. in July 1863, but remains much less well-known today.
U.S. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, was born in Cadiz, Spain to expatriate American parents.
The house in which Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va., was disassembled after the war and re-erected during the Great Depression.
Name five memorable events, 1920-30
Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Jazz Singer
Fatty Arbunkle Scandal
Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb murder trial, the Crime of the century until the Lindbergh kidnapping baby. Also the inspiration for the classic movie "The Rope"
The Scopes Monkey Trial (staged by the way, staged better in Inherit the Wind ;) )
Name 5 Memorable events of 1900 to 1909
PS: 2 other good and related one that ended up bigger than some of the above:
Penicillin was discovered and pre-sliced bread was invented.
Theodore Roosevelt became President
Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk
Death of Queen Victoria
Rotary Intl. is founded
Great White Fleet circled the globe
Name five memorable events, 1930-40
Germany -- bad stuff.
Austria -- also bad stuff, because of Germany.
EdmHusserl died a failed, betrayed man at the end of the decade.
Those were some of the glory years for Pound's *Cantos*.
Shameful years for international modernist collectives, like Surrealists and so forth.
Name five good works of prose fiction or verse, 1930-1940
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
To Have and Have Not
Death in the Afternoon
Absalom, Absalom
Name five memorable events, 1940-50
Pearl Harbor
Japanese war crimes began against the West
Quite a few well-known scholars were born in this decade
Bombing the shit of places with nukes iron bombs
Hollywood recovered from it's interrupted golden decade (the 1930s) with some aplomb
Name five reasons to read stuff about things
Self-improvement
Broaden your fields of knowledge
Do better in trivia games
Impress the chicks
Get that bastard Trebek's job when he finally leaves
Name five memorable events, 1950-60
Orson Welles has his last hurrah as a film-maker who makes movies.
Kruschev and the shoe-banging thing
Ike!
Macarthur and japan.
Korea.
Name five things most people don't like about summers in the US
Heat
Humidity
Traffic
Kids around all the time
Crowds
Name 5 losing VP candidates
Ferraro
Quayle
Spiro
Mondale
Lieberman
Name 5 reasons some people dislike children
(Actually, Spiro Agnew won both his races as VP - 1968 and 1972. He lost in being forced from office, I suppose).
noisy
bratty
selfish
clumsy
clingy
Name 5 reasons some people love children
They say funny things
They like to give high-fives
They copy stuff you do
They are unreasonably impressed by card tricks
They're just funny
Name five good reasons to avoid the sun like the plague
Sunburn
Skin cancer
The warning that old gypsy woman gave you in 1977
Burn your corneas out if you look right at it
Don't want it to get a big ego
Name five things you'd take on a mission to the Sun
All of the annoying children.
Some vitamins.
Rain water -- or distilled water.
Prophylactics.
Cyanide capsules.
Name five things the average person would remember from a Kirk Douglas movie
His chin
An extra wearing a wristwatch in Spartacus
Manipulating but not sleeping with Ava Gardner in Seven Days in May
His boxy suit in that movie where he played an old criminal just released from prison
Oh my God, his chin!
Name five rejected Donald Trump campaign slogans
"Please help me, I'm bankrupt!"
"Ivanka needs some titties and then I'll raise the money"
"Joan Rivers supports me."
"I wear great suits."
"I spend less on haircuts than John Edwards"
Name five reasons to not buy a new suit
Not enough dough
Satisfied with the suits you already have
Nothing in your size
Hate the styling of all the ones on the rack
Ax murderer hiding in the fitting room
(My two favorites: "Trump 2016: We shall overcomb!" and "There's hell toupee!")
Name five reasons to buy five new suits
Looking sharp!
Put too much shit in your jacket side pockets such that they tear
The trousers one is not careful about
Sick of the suits one already has
Because one is a faggot
Name five reasons to not wear suits, tout court
all right those are two extraordinary Trump slogans. You should be a fucking comedian soon, EH -- those almost made me vomit from laughter. Kudos!
I can't claim credit for the Trump slogans; others told them to me.
Name five reasons to not wear suits, tout court
Too damn hot
Hate how they look
Can't afford one
No one else in the room is wearing one
The Dear Leader decreed that no one may wear suits but him
Name five things you'd say to a dictator if you safely could
Suck my dick
Eat my root
Free my people
Lick my balls
fuck Thatcher
Name five favorite pieces of classical music
Great category!
J.S. Bach, Double Violin Concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesrqFeq9rU
Mascagni, Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSWB4TI
Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B50ed6qaHbU
Boyce, Symphony No. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyC4XbSKYE
Mahler, Symphony No. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNm54C4SK0
I could go on....
Name five other favorite pieces of classical music
Webern's Passcaglia
Beethoven's Waldstein
Berg's Wozzeck
Beethoven's Tempest
Schoenberg's Op. 25
Name five genres of music despised by most
Jazz
Classical
Reggae
Gangsta Rap
Disco
Name 5 memorable events from 1960 to 1970
JFK elected
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall erected
Apollo 11
Woodstock
Name 5 memorable events from 1970 to 1980
Abscam
Hostages
Big oil
Recession
The rise of big Ford
Name five good reasons to be sort of pissed off at the moment
People who still can't accept the Supreme Court's SSM decision
House falling apart
Much too rainy
People who don't return phone calls
Easily distracted by Mellophant
Name 5 memorable events from 1980 to 1990
Challenger disaster
Miracle on Ice
Collapse of Berlin Wall
Tianamen Square demonstration
Ouster of Ferdinand Marcos
Name 5 memorable events from 1990 to 2000
Bill Clinton elected in US
Blair and New Labour elected in UK
Lewinskygate
Y2K wasn't that big of a deal after all
Bush v. Gore
Name 5 memorable events from 2000 to 2010