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Provide a top five or a worst five list of anything you like! The more obscure the better!

One stipulation, each top five should be unique, so we shouldn't end up with two lists of best envelope style.

list liking fool!, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Fools

5: Motley Fool (Boring financial website) 4: "I pity the fool" (Catchphrase of TV's aeoplane fearer BA Barracus) 3: Rhubarb Fool (1920's pudding made of rhubarb & fat) 2: April Fool's Day (Day on calander designed specifically to lose friends with "lesser developed" sense of humour) 1: Foolscap (A size of paper that no-one uses or understands)

Pete, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Key Board Instruments
1) Pipe Organ
2) Harpsichord
3) Clavier
4) Disclavier
5) Moog

anthony, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 sexual fetishes:

  1. Coprophilia
  2. Bestiality
  3. Nasal Sex
  4. Necrophilia
  5. Eating cereal & milk out of women's shoes

Kodanshi, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five pot plants:
1) Swiss cheese plant
2) Rubber plant
3) Spider plant
4) Wandering Jew
5) Busy Lizzy

MarkH, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Eastern Snack Foods:

1) Onion Bhajia 2) Samosas 3) Pakoras 4) Spicy Chana 5) Japanese Rice Crackers

katie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Posters In My Living Room:

5. Lisa Steps with naff 'rock' outfit.

4. Moody Eminem looking moody.

3. Claire Steps with punXoR spraycan.

2. Albino Britney on mocked-up desert island.

1. Hear'Say mugging atrociously in schoolboy/girl garb.

Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Things on My Desk: 1. Computer 2. Mobile 3. Rubber band ball 4.Metro 5. Vaseline

Top 5 Things in My Bag: 1. Fave lipstick 2. Cigarettes 3. Money money money 4. Staff discount card 5. Discman

Emma, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five members of S Club 7: 5. Jo
4. Jon
3. Bradley
2. Hannah
1. Paul

jamesmichaelward, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 British Buses of the 1970s:
1) Daimler Fleetline
2) Leyland National
3) Bristol VR
4) Leyland Atlantean
5) AEC Reliance

MarkH, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Trees:
5: Horse Chestnut
4: Oak
3: Birch
2: Fir
1: Willow

Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five 'Impressive' Books In My Flat Which I Have Never Actually Even Opened

5. Leo Tolstoy - War And Peace (not impressive at all as it is in £1 edition)
4. Hakim Bey - Immediatism (Never in the mood. Haven't been in the mood for HB since 1996 though so maybe time to give up.)
3. Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida (no idea why I've not read this actually and I'd forgotten I even had it - a happy accident then)
2. Jean Baudrillard - Seduction (I have more unread Baudrillard at my parents' house.)
1. Michel Foucault - Discipline And Punish (I spilt tomato ketchum on it on day of purchase and ever since then have found it vaguely icky).

Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 WWF Special Moves

5.Walls of Jericho 4.The Last Ride 3.Poetry in Motion 2.3-D (preferably through a table) 1.Rock Bottom, Rock Bottom

Jonnie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 referencing styles:

5 Endnotes

4 Footnotes

3 None

2 Harvard, with colons (Sachs:1999:23-25)

1 Harvard, with commas and pps (Sachs, 1999, pp23-25).

Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow Ellie, that's diligence!
Top 5 Years
5: 1381
4: 1789
3: 1922 2:1945 1: 1984

Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 artists/performers named after parts of the body:

5) Frankie Knuckles [knockout producer]

4) Lung Leg [two for the price of one!]

3) The Liverbirds [scouse comediennes]

2) Urethra Franklin [soul diva with poor bladder control]

1) Tony Hart [three for the price of one!]

Trevor, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Noises

5. Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 4. Oompah oompah oompah smash 3. Wikky wikky wikky wik 2. MmmmmmmmmmmWOM! 1. BWAAAARP! BWAAAAAAAARP!

Matt DC, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 numbers in the range 1 to 5:

5)1 4)5 3)4 2)1 1)3

3 is the magic number

Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 action figure ranges: 5.MAC [mobile action command] blerks who rescue pple ans live inna secret mountain - no wimmin allowed] 4.Eagles [blerks who rescue pple and fight evil - commander wears marigold yellow jumpsuit and black gloves] 3.Madel Man [purV spanish little big man - shifty geezer, often in a wetsuit] 2.Little Big Man [rosy lipped, floppy fringed, feet came off] 1.Action Man [ol'skool eagle-eye,grippin hands, german uniform, facial scar and an alsatian]

, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

new top 5 action figure ranges: 5.MAC [mobile action command] blerks who rescue pple ans live inna secret mountain - no wimmin allowed] 4.Eagles [blerks who rescue pple and fight evil - commander wears marigold yellow jumpsuit and black gloves] 3.Madel Man [purV spanish little big man - shifty geezer, often in a wetsuit] 2.Little Big Man [rosy lipped, floppy fringed, feet came off] 1.Action Man [ol'skool eagle-eye,grippin hands, german uniform, facial scar and an alsatian]

, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five people named after medical terms:

1)Angela Prolapse

2)Muhammad Brain Haemmhorrage

3)Dwight Flu

4)Gerald Alzheimer's

5)Pablo Hysterectomy

dave q, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Mediocre American Comic Actors In The Mid-To-Late 80's

5. Martin Short 4. Chevy Chase 3. James Belushi 2. Judge Reinhold 1. Steve Guttenberg

Matt DC, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Literature Classics I started but never finished: 1-Ulysses 2-Crime and Punishment 3-The Lord of the Rings 4-Werther ( I lost the copy, I took it as a signal) 5-A la recherche du temps perdu

Laetitia, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Mathematicians:

5. Erdos
4. Euler
3. Ramunajan
2. Godel
1. Gauss

Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top five sexy sidekicks:

1. Six (Blossom)

2. Penfold (Dangermouse)

3. Willow

4. Lorraine Macintosh (Deacon Blue)

5. Hugh Lawrie (Stephen Fry)

chris, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 soloutions to 'smell' as a crossword clue:

1. Odour
2. Scent
3. Olfaction
4. Fragrance
5. Stink

Nick, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sam, what about Poincare? He did not need to write anything on paper! But Gauss is 1,sure :)

Laetitia, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some good silly top tens.

if you get as far as lists 51-60 you get a quite funny top 10 FORTHCOMING HARRY POTTER BOOKS

Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Laetitia: I thought about Poincare but left him off because I always confuse him with Pascal, who annoys me with his God-bothering. But by all means kick Erdos off for Henri. Erdos was more of a cult figure than anything else.

Sam, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 list songs

1. reasons to be cheerful part 3 - Ian Dury & the blockheads.
2.REM - It's the end of the world...3. Divine Comedy - the booklovers
4. A house - endless art
4. Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro.

Billy Dods, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 top 5s (it was only a matter of time):

5 Members of SClub7

4 Trees

3 Crossword synonyms for 'smell'

2 Numbers 1-5

1 Fools

Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 classes of P00 / Shite / Faeces / #2:

5. Fizzy Gravy
4. Wet Gravel
3. Rusty Water
2. Big Bomber
1. Captain's Log

Kodanshi, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Current Tom's Illness Symptoms

5. Joint ache
4. Lethargy
3. Chesty cough
2. Prickly skin heat
1. "The guts"

Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

godel is number one, i don't know any biographical info about the others listed but anyone who dies of starvation because he believes someone is poisoning his food has to be number one.

keith, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 descriptions of the hair of IL* members:

5. Fruity 4. Hairy 3. Gareth's 2. like Geoff Capes' back 1. Tuppence-coloured

Mark C, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is that really true? It does seem deliciously appropriate if it is.

RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five places I find my keys after literally many minutes of searching:

5. On shelf where I'm meant to leave them so I can find them again
4. Under duvet
3. Under junk on floor
2. Down side of bed
1. In pocket

Graham, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five sushi:
1 Unagi (eel)
2 Sake (salmon)
3 Kani Sarada (crab salad)
4 Tamago (egg)
5 Advocado

helen fordsdale, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Records played in I Love EasyEverythingInternetCafe today (this is harder than I thought):

5. Candy - Ash
4. The Waiting Line - Zero 7
3. Always Somethink There To Remind Me
2. Can't Get You Out of my Head
1. Eternal Flame - Atomic Kitten

Graham, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Unagi: is that pronounced "oo-nah-gi"? 'Cos there was an episode of "Friends" (c'mon hatas), where Ross used that term to describe his supposed sixth sense abilities. I remember this because this one guy I know insists on employing that phrase at every opportunity. Five most annoying cast members of 'Friends'?

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beans for 5 bean salad 1.yellow string beans 2.green string beans 3.kidney beans 4.green lima beans 5.chick beans. Yaaaaaaaaaaah! GOOD STUFF!

Gale Deslongchamps, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mitch, yeah, it's pronounced ooo-nah-geee.

helen fordsdale, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 reasons to read £1 novels (as I did War and Peace this summer hahaha):

1) They cost £1! 2) Unattractive colour scheme means no one pinches it. 3) Expand your mind. 4) There are loads of them. 5) Gloat at people who haven't read War and Peace. Lightweights!

Bill, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 insults I received whilst working on the south of england travel survey:

1) Fuck off. 2) What a bunch of wankers. 3) The police - bunch of arseholes. 4) Bollocks - I'm stuck here for five minutes even if I don't give you any answers. 5) Driving to the census point then not stopping and flying up onto the motorway, and, in one instance, JUST answering the questions and almost taking me with him in wanker-like hurry.

Bill, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five things I'm about to buy in last-minute mercy dash to Safeway:

1. Jus-Rol Pastry (round cross-section, Puff)

2. Jus-Rol Pastry (round cross-section, Shortcrust)

3. Crunchy-Nut Cornflakes

4. Oasis Summer Fruits

5. "life-affirming snacks"

Michael Jones, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(5=saab 96 curses curses)

Norman Phay, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Closest Categories in the ILE Awards so far:

5. Best Post
4. Filthiest Poster
3. Dream Date Male
2. Dream Date Female
1. Nicest Poster

Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 things about linux: 5) grep
4) vi 's search and substitute abilities.
3) "Chick Dig Unix"
2) Korn Meets KoRN
1) The Pengiun even cuter then GNU's gnu & Duke!

Mr Noodles, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 sweets to make for christmas:

1) monkey bread
2) gingerbread
3) paklava
4) ones with red and green m&ms
5) chewy cinnamony ones

Maria, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top five things i need to do in the next 10 minutes: 5)pick up remote off floor 4)eat whatever is in fridge for dinner 3)buy soda from thew lobby as i am out again 2)turn on fan because of #1)have a smoke.

kevin enas, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Sights To See On The Oxford-London Oxford Tube (In Order Of Appearance)

1. "WHY DO YOU DO THIS EVERY DAY?" Grafitti on wooden fence on your left. Next to it used to be a big poster explaining how Tony Blair was destroying Christian Radio but now there's more graf - "FOOD NOT BOMBS" and what looks like a picture of a man jumping about in some water.

2. The Brewmaster Hotel, Hillingdon, a squat octangular building with a glowing neon strip all around the edge - at night a thing of high magnitude, by day the shabbiest and poorest looking building you might ever hope not to see. A symbol of travelling-salesman loneliness, the home you imagine of lost souls forever stranded at London's outer limit.

3. Park Royal underground station, a beautiful square brick tower amidst rows of modest terrace housing. A steady stream of 1930s clerks file in and out dreaming aspirational dreams (or you'd like to think so.)

4. The Hoover Factory. "It's not a matter of life and death, but what is? What is?" - Elvis Costello, from his song about the grand Art Deco building (now a Tesco's supermarket) which comes into my head every time I make the journey.

5. The flyover at Shepherd's Bush. Under it, you can see out of the windows, is a basketball court, glass-walled and -roofed. When I first took the Tube it was barely a tennis court, covered in grafitti, with local kids playing there. It's gradually grown, getting proper flooring and markings, then a building, now this modern leisure complex but I hope the same kids play on it - or their brothers at least.

Tom, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's an actual supermarket? I thought it was just offices. Blimey. Been inside? Is it that wonderful glowing green or just functional?

Bill, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. LOL= Laugh out loud 2.LOL= Love of life 3.LOL =Lost on line 4.LOL= Living on love 5.LOL= Lady of leisure....Me! Gale

Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Robots!

1) Gort
2) Robbie the Robot
3) Optimus Prime 4) R2 D2
5) Terminator

james, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top-5 buys at second-hand market today:

1- M/A/R/R/S - Pump the Volume 12" 5 gulden
2- Art of Noise - Moments in Love 12" 5 gulden
3- Kraftwerk - Computer Love album 5 gulden
4- 'Orval' Beer Glass 1 gulden
5- Gullit/Rijkaard/Van Basten Oranje'88 Coffee Mugs 7.50 gulden

stevo, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five meals at local eateries sure to make me a very happy person indeed:

1. Pho 99's large-bowl main soup, right down to the tripe, with plenty of hoisin sauce
2. Taco Mesa's nachos al pastor, with horchata
3. Sam Woo's house recipe fried rice, with Tsingtao beer
4. Nick's Pizza's pizza (of course!), maybe pepperoni but doesn't need it, with their import Silician beer
5. Mitae Ramen's shoyu ramen on a cold winter night, with iced tea

All visitors to me will be required to have these dishes.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Partley for Kim to make up for her not winning Nicest Poster:
Top Five Places to eat in the Underground

5. Mancho Wak in Commerce Court, does not follow corporate food orders.
4. Pumpernickels in BCE, dammmm goood. A bit like the soup Nazi though.
3. House of Kim (I forget exactly who), 1st Canadian Place, its Korean and serves beer and sushi, possibly the best place to loose an afternoon outside of the Beir Marker which isnt underground.
2. Thai Island, also in 1 st Canada Place but up near the Exchange Place (the northeast end, its a new food court). Best Pad Thai and any type of noodles in the PATH.
1. Tastes of India. Under whatever is west of Commerce Court, South of 1st Canada, Dang I forget its name. The Chicken Maghki (I can neither pronounce or spell it) is drop dead amazing (its on sale on Thursdays), the spamozas are actually spicey and the rice is good no matter what curry is dropped on top of it.

Mr Noodles, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Unpleasant or Unwholesome Things I Did This Week:

Once had a guilt dilemma over chicken nuggets and then ate turkey and armenian meatballs for three days
Twice went shopping
Three times blew up at my family, extended relatives included in one case
Four times cried
Five pounds gained

Maria, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw shux. That's so nice of ye Noodley (even if you have had a few too many Moosehead or whatevers) Got to say that "spamozas" is the scariest food related word I have *ever* seen tho.

Kim, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five problems with other people's lists: 1.) Matt = add Rick Moranis.
2.) Will = add Aspen.
3.) Gale = appearing in No "Gale" Signoff on First List Shocker!
4.) Ned = remove horchata from item 2 before I puke.
5.) Norman = add http://www.fiero.org/pix/cop3.gif
6.) Alan = add 2.
7.) Nitsuh = remove two items from list.

Nitsuh, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 reasons to kick a dog 1 for glory and love 2 for anger and love 3 due to gulf stream 4 it bit God 5 it has a horn of life

Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 things I have sculpted out of hubby's knob cheese, word!

1. Jude Law bust.

2. Simple canoe.

3. Detailed canoe.

4. Exact 3-D replica of scene which occurs at 1 hour, 22 minutes of Rocky III.

5. Bar Of Soap.

Ciao and party hard!

Smegma Sculptress, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoever the Sculptress be, she deserves a last-minute 'funniest poster' nomination (If she hasn't already got one, that is), if only for no. 4. (Or did I not get enough sleep last night?)

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Blimey someone noticed!) Fact is 2 suXoR and 1 deserves two votes. (will that do?)

Alan at home, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fiddle on you, Nitsuh. If I changed it to a Negro Modelo or a watermelon agua fresca, would that help?

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five list of best gigs:
1 Painkiller
2 dEUS & Dead Man Ray
3 Evil Superstars & Sparklehorse
4 Fugazi
5 Kiss My Jazz & Yo La Tengo

helen fordsdale, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five pictures in the 1998 Hardcover American Heritage Dictionary:

5. Scrimshaw

4. Hurdy-gurdy

3. Robot

2. Neck

1. Comic (A NANCY comic shrunk down to postage stamp size, and still quite legible!)

1 1 2 3 5, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five letters in the alphabet:

5) E
4) D
3) C
2) B
1) A

(Well, Alan stole my original list... *pout*)

Dan Perry, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan, you are obviously a Rockist.

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top five asses 1 charo 2 Jennifer lopez 3 sharon stone 4 rhea perlman 5 jospehine baker

Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 dull obligations:

5) practicing that whatsisname on the piano
4) laundry
3) history homework
2) math
1) selling things

Maria, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ha! Get this, over on that Destroy ILE board, some characters are saying that my response back to Nitsuh up above in the thread regarding horchata is proof of my racism. News to me! Oh yes, and apparently Dan's not really black either. I'm sure that's news to him as well!

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"some characters" = oh come on. No need to be oblique.

Nicole, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey norman, what is car #3, cos its hot!

Lusenet forums: 1) ILE 2) ILFMBOP 3) ILM 4) Destroy ILE 5) Destroy Destroy ILE. I wanted to put Identity Theft on there somewhere, but its disappeared.

di, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*shrug* The exact identity of who it is doesn't interest me beyond a vague curiosity. The whole thing is just sad.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sure that news that I'm not black will come as a shock to my parents, too.

Dan Perry, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The exact identity of who it is doesn't interest me beyond a vague curiosity.

I'm not interested, it's just that it's pretty obvious. It's not like you need to guess.

Nicole, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was mistaken, Thai Island is in the north west corner of First Canada, west of the HMV/GAP and west of the the hallway to the next building northwards. And Im sorry, its spelt Samosas wow, I learn something new everyday.

Mr Noodles, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Imagine if there really were Spam samosas out there tho, and you'll see why I was frightened.

Kim, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would be just as greasy though.

Mr Noodles, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Destroy ILE is password protected now. humph.

Top 5 things thrown out of my fridge when I cleaned it

  1. package of bacon that resembled turf
  2. shrimp stir-fry I made in August
  3. pasta that contained olives. i think
  4. container of apple juice that had turned to grape juice
  5. about 10 different tubs of sour cream

Samantha, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m.:

1. The Boo Radleys - "Lazy Day"

2. My Bloody Valentine - "Off Your Face"

3. Red House Painters - "Grace Cathedral Park"

4. Trashcan Sinatras - "Hayfever"

5. Broadcast - "Lights Out"

Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Folders on My Windowsill at Work:

5: Central Billing '01

4: Day File 0001 -

3: Wages Folder

2: Bar Cash Up 1/8/2001 -

1: VAT Wank

Pete, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good choices, Nitsuh, you will live. ;-)

Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five railway stations

5) Gare D'Austerlitz (Paris) 4) Moskovskaya Voksall (St Petersburg)
3) Roma Termini
2) St Pancras
1) Milano Centrale

ed, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five bubble gum songs
1 Archies Sugar Sugar
2 Tommy James I think we're alone now 3 the Monkees I'm a believer
4 Rare Breed BegBorrow and Steal
5 Spice Girls SayYou'llBeThere

helen fordsdale, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five last names:

Davis
Cohen
Vermeire
Kirkwood
McCarter

Sterling Clover, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Questions Posed in "Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m.":

1. "What's the problem?"
2. "What do you take me for?"
3. "Why are you like this?"
4. "Why can't we take a couple of tablets?"
5. "Should I throw my tam in the ring and run for president?"

Top Five Rhetorical Devices Employed in Item Number Two of "Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m.":

1. "Arsenic be judge, gin be jury."
(Alliteration, metonymy, archaism, asyndeton)
2. "Eerie, wild, and wailing."
(Alliteration, assonance)
3. "You want me; do I?"
(Aporia, antithesis)
4. "I gets larger as she gets nearer."
(Euphemism, metonymy)
5. "The chocolate's watching; the cuckoos are clocking me."
(Personification, assonance, alliteration, paronomasia)

Top Five Musical Bits in "Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m.":

1. Pinnacle-of-human-creation riff from "Lazy Day."
2. Enveloped "breathing" quality of keys from "Lights Out."
3. Bouncy ascending piano fill between first "only one way" and second "only one way" from "Hayfever."
4. Vocals following swerving guitar from into to "Off Your Face."
5. Introduction of sprightly bass line to "Grace Cathedral Park."

Top Five Instruments I Would Prefer to Play During Live Renditions of "Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m.":

1. "Hayfever" = voice, tambourine. 2. "Grace Cathedral Park" = chiming lead guitar. 3. "Lights Out" = secondary analog synth fills. 4. "Lazy Day" = electric rhythm guitar. 5. "Off Your Face" = Bilinda Butcher.

Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Things That I Thought Of On Reading "Nitsuh Abebe's Official Top Five Favorite Songs Ever, as Realized without Agonizing or Second-Guessing in a Flash of Clarity at 4:35 a.m." And Follow Up Lists Thereof

1) Insomnia can sometimes be a good thing
2) David Foster Wallace
3) Rollercoasters in songs
4) HTML can be oddly difficult to get right sometimes
5) He's a filthy bugger that Nitsuh

RickyT, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five songs that, when I go to sleep listening to their respective albums, suddenly drag me back awake in a confused, delirious, and creeped-out but nonetheless enjoyable way:

1. "Strawberry Hill" on Red House Painters
2. "Do You Know How to Waltz" on Low's The Curtain Hits the Cast
3. "Rainy Day" (end organ solo) on Sugarplant's Happy / Trance Mellow
4. "The Happy End (The Drunk Room" on Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs
5. "Who the Fuck?" on Graham Coxon's The Sky is Too High

Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Sorts of Real Junk Food to Eat:

5) Ice cream
4) French Vanilla Dunkacinos
3) Spicy cheese sticks
2) Popcorn with lots of butter and salt
1) Oreos with green filling and pictures of the Grinch on one side

Maria, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 brands of mineral water:

1. Evian
2. Ballygowan
3. Highland Spring
4. Vittel
5. Volvic

james, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Member of the X-men, past and present:

1. Wolverine
2. Nightcrawler
3. Rogue
4. Shadowcat
5. Beast

james, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Sights to see on the Oxford Tube that are in Oxfordshire (nearest to town first):
1. BIG SHARK sticking out of building, Headington
2. WOW world of wigs and weaves, toupee shop next to hairdressers
3. graffitti that says "CROW APTOK" on ex-bridge near Ox service Station
4. Lewknor (sp?) Turn
5. Big Fuck-Off Gouge in the hill the bus drives through to take you to Bucks.

point of order, but next to where it says "why do i do this everyday" it says "stop the ilisu dam" and they have!!!!

carsmilesteve, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 novels by Knut Hamsun:

1. Mysteries
2. Victoria
3. Dreamers
4. The Wanderer
5. Hunger

james, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Looks that Strike Me as a Poor Investment in the Future of One's Wardrobe:

1. Western
2. Thrift store 1930s (female)
3. Slacker cum grease monkey
4. Great big baggy pants
5. Punk

Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Things For Boys To Resemble Thereby Enhancing Their Ability To Make Me Want To Cuddle Them:

1. girl
2. monkey
3. raccoon (damp)
4. bee or other fuzzy insect
5. The Incredible Hulk

rainy, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Slapstick Ways To Get Woken Up 1. Chest of drawers falling from second storey window to your courtyard
2. Bitten on ear by best friend #1
3. Best friend #2 yelling, "I'm making cookies in the shape of giraffes, they've got moustaches!"
4. Falling out of bed, hitting nose on telephone, telephone rings, on the line is best friend #3
5. Bed on fire

rainy, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't know if it's even possible, but i'm pretty sure that a monkey crossed with the incredible hulk might be the most accurate description fo me evah.

jess, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Monkey Hulk - For the Cuddlyness! (head not shown actual size)

rainy, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

top 5 things jess wants to change about his life right now:

5. spend less on music and actually listen more.

4. own a car

3. lose 20 lbs.

2. write more

1. move to washington

jess, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Things That Can Be Purchased With $6 Or Less On George Street

1. Sushi (vegetarian, eight pieces) from Tokyo House
2. Photo sticker booth fun, Morning Glory
3. Two hours of internet use at The Governor's
4. Coffee for you and a friend, Modaks
5. Bus tickets for you and two friends, destination: St. Clair beach

rainy, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five empty packages/containers on my desk right now:

1. Kamel Reds, pack
2. Rolling Rock, pint bottle; courtesy Sterling
3. Small Factory singles comp, jewel case
4. Altoids, wintergreen
5. Coca Cola, 12 oz. can

Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five recent dreams:

1. William Shatner attempts to enrol his dog in school for gifted children; Pam & I have already got our twin daughters in there, but one of them will be kept by the school as payment. Shatner eventually turns to Charlie Sheen, head of the military section of school - has success.

2. I'm playing fruit snooker with Stephen Hendry (all the balls are berries). He arrogantly rolls a gooseberry into the middle pocket and I threaten him with a bread knife. He starts crying.

3. Nick D lands a role in a BBC costume drama. Stevie T and I are in the audience for studio filming (yes, I know, dramas don't have studio audiences). He emerges with ludicrous beard and we heckle. In closing titles, he's credited as Nasdoor Orr.

4. Charlotte Coleman and my friend John Jervis are sitting together on a filthy couch in some North London squat. CC is chain-smoking. She calmly explains that, all things considered, she prefers being dead.

5. I'm filming a documentary on BMX gangs in the Canary Islands. Alix unexpectedly turns up at the airport looking like a movie star. There is a riot.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fantastico! Are those for real? (I read 'dreams' as 'dramas' initially)

Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got a friend called John Jervis too, except he probably isnt my friend any more because I'm so shit at e-mailing him. Is he the same one I wonder?

Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, Nick, they all 'really happened'. This is what happens when you routinely sleep until 10am - and some indication of why I don't want to get out of bed even then.

Tom: Jervis is a pal of mine from postgrad days; he runs a record label called Where It's At Is Where You Are (Gilfrendo, Sportique, Family Way, Defisis, Weevil et al) from his luxury pad in Maidenhead.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top Five Hangover Cures:

1. Two glasses of water the night before. You'll be in the loo so fast upon waking you won't know what hit you.

2. Smoked bacon on toast with Heinz ketchup and mayonnaise.

3. Egg soldiers.

4. Cornershop noodles tarted up with handful of coriander, boiled egg, chilli oil and a dash of soy sauce.

5. Gently scrambled eggs made with butter, milk, parmesan and Cruella de Vil levels of pepper.

suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 nice things when the weather finally gets cold:

5. Pulling out my nice long coats (camel hair with leopard print trim; subtle houndstooth check wool with mink collar and satin lining)

4. wearing wooly over the knee socks and bunny slippers

3. turning on the gas heaters so there's at least one nice warm spot in each room.

2. eating cold food like chili and hot slices of pie

1. snuggling up in flannel sheets to sleep with all the animals joining you.

brr, cold.

Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Egg soldiers ??

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ketchup --> brown sauce
cruella de vil level's of pepper + baron's hot pepper sauce

and where are the bloody marys?

Ed, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's this thing.

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Egg Soldiers, that is. Egg Soldiers is this thing. Oh man, I always leech on to ILspeak to late, or employ it at the wrong times.

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*sounds of crickets greet Mitch's last post*

Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Things I've Read On ILE Today that Sound Rather Odd Taken Out Of Context:

1. "Egg Soldiers is this thing"
2. "gay Shaggy freezes men and peeks inside their Speedos"
3. "Hank's ex-wife used to masturbate horses"
4. "I should like to draw your attention to FatNick's latest project, his new interpretations of classic poetry."
5. "doing a reggie"

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Homosexual Men working in New York creativly circa 1957
1) Frank O'Hara
2) Joe Brainard
3) John Cage
4) Allen Ginsberg
5) Merce Cunningham

anthony, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anthony, no Jasper Johns? '57 too early?

fritz, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Egg soldiers are one soft-boiled egg which is accompanied by toast cut into strips and then dipped in the egg yolk. Soldiers = the toast strips because they go marching into the doom of battle that is the egg yolk.

Brown sauce, bleurgh. Some apparatchik at Andrewes Cafe served me a bacon sandwich with this on it, was totally foul. Vinegarish stuff + bacon = chunks blown, except for the spinach salad with bits of real bacon, caramelised shallots and balsamic vinegar.

Bloody Marys are obviously ace, but the list was definitely non- alcoholic.

suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He was working but not making enough of a contribution as well i could really do a list of 40 the time was so ripe.

anthony, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 places to be trapped: 1)My own fucking house, being stopped from leaving by a mentalist who thought I was a mentalist (they're always the best).
2)John Jervis' luxury Maidenhead pad (booyaka), waiting for some kind soul to lend me the money to leave (for three days).
3)Dark lifts in basements in the studio (haha Steve.n).
4)My friend's toilet, whilst on acid (Jesus Christ, what's happened to the door handle?).
5)4th floor apartment in Paris, waking up and finding yourself unable to get out- spending hours sitting on a balcony looking over the city, smoking, being hungover and giggling stupidly (because you're supposed to be at a soundcheck at 4 o'clock).

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top three stupidness on my part noticed immediately:

1)Bad HTML
2)Use of word 'booyaka'
3)Reverse order.

emil.y, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LaDY Die SeZ:

hey norman, what is car #3, cos its hot!

Isn't it. It's a Bristol 410. Hand-built, seperate chassis, Chrysler 6lt V8 engine. There's actually one in a fancy garage near where I live for £800. You know, the sort of money normal people can afford.

There is also a really nice Triumph 2000 for sale @ another garage nearby. The big Wolseley is actually located in Dunedin!

Norman Phay, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hang on isn't tomato ketchup also vinagry. I ca see we will have to have a fight re: brown sauce.

Ed, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five reasons I've barely been on IL* this week - 1) Needed to sleep and work sometime
2) Didn't have anything nice to say so I didn't say anything at all
3) Had a stupid essay to finish
4) Lost my network card for two days and had no access
5) Wanted to see if anyone would miss me - ok actually it was just the no access thing, I don't care. No really. Ok, fine so I care. Screw you guys.

Kim, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I missed you! *weeps*

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There there Ned. I'm here now. Aww... don't cry... because if you cry, then I'll cry, and then it'll just turn into a total bawlfest. *lower lip starts shaking*

Kim, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go Wolseley! My photo! Here's an article about that one: http://welcometodunedin.co.nz/dunedinmotormuseum/wolseley6110.htm Other Wolsleys scattered around the site.

Noodliferous Blenkinsop-Crescentwrench, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...
Top 5 reasons to eat all the Cherry Bakewells:

1. I'm hungry
2. They are nice
3. I'm bored
4. It's the right thing to do
5. I don't have to share them then.

jel --, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and jel, they are also full of cherry goodness YUM!!

katie, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 reasons to go to lunch now rather than at 1 when I usually go:
1. I didn't have my customary sausage-in-a-bun for breakfast.
2. I want to go and see if HMV have got the Mark Kozelek CD I was just reading about on ILM. (They won't)
3. I want to buy some cigs.
4. I want to read my Wired mag about AI.
5. I am between projects at the moment and can afford to slouch.

Sam, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top 5 Product Spoonerisms:
1: Bars Mar
2: Poco Cops
3: Takewell Bart (and topical too)
4: Tackcurrent Bango
5: Not Poodle (relegated for actually being used as publicity stunt)

Pete, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you mean Tackcurrant Blango?

Emma, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yep, its the Blango I love. Doh!

Pete, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re bristol 410:

There's actually one in a fancy garage near where I live for £800.

errrr that's £8000. and it's still there!

Norman Phay, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Five answers that precede the question:

1) The way to the forest is barred, we cannot enter tonight. 2) Hungry crows surround the lone squirrel, ready to strike. 3) Her dress has patches; weeping, she kisses the gravestone. 4) The picnic. A languid calypso plays by the water. 5) The Queen of Cups, reversed and on fire.

Joe, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Top five brands of cigarette:

1) Bis
2) Gauloises
3) Marlboro (Reds)
4) Peter Stuyvesant
5) Silk Cut *sigh*

electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...
Top Five Animals Seen In The London Underground

1) Rat
2) Specially Evolved Mosquito (Mosquito Tubius)
3) Cat I saw at West Hampstead once
4) Greenfly
5) An American Werewolf In London

Pete, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't the 'rats' mainly mice?

N., Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope they are mostly malnourished or young rats. The life expectancy of a tube rat is about nine months which is how the population maintains at a steady number rather than exponentially growing. Malnutrition is causedpartially by lack of food by proximity to high voltage electricity is very bad for mammals - even if avoiding electrocution the magnetic fields caused are likely to cause cancerous growths. Hence what you see are pretty much babies half the time.

Pete, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They certainly don't have tails like rats. Are you saying that the cancerous baby rat growths cause them to have mouse tails too?

Emma, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rat tails only become thick after about fifteen months. "Rattus rattus - the main rat species - can develop huge tails after a long period of time, but during immature development the tail is generally thin and mouselike." (Encyclopaedia Brittanica - which goes on to talk about Rat Kings!!!)

Pete, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 clouds
  • Cumulonimbus
  • Cirrocumulus
  • Noctilucent cloud
  • Cirrus
  • Altocumulus castellanus

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a yogoholick
1.) Yomio
2.)Bio Natuur
3.)Bio Apples
4.)Bio Forrest Fruit
5.)All other yoghurt.

nathalie, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...
Top five paving slabs

1) Square
2) Magic Ractangle size (all the better for tesselation)
3) Hexagonal )Esp sixties municipal buildings)
4) Bobbly and yellow - international paving slab signifier of road crossing.
5) Crazy paving. As bevoled by seventies gardeners.

Pete, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you ever had to walk over bobbly yellow ones in high heels you would not be voting for them in your top 5, believe you me.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you were blind/partially sighted, you might though. (if you weren't wearing high heels too that is)

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 mugs in my kitchen:

5 Small 20s style (blue) (white inside)

4 Small swirly patterned (dark on light blue) (white inside)

3 Medium abstract flower (blue on white) (white inside)

2 Medium beveled white (white inside)

1 Medium straight white (white inside)

Top 5 sets of espresso cups

: 5 New in - handleless clay fired flower pattern, bought on holiday (no saucers)

4 Yellow w/ blue stars (no saucers)

3 Tiny dark green Denby (mother's wedding present passed on) (with saucers)

2 Blue Denby (nicked from particularly obnoxious employer when I was temp secretary; part of set) (with saucers)

1 Tiny green outside/blue inside (without saucers)

Ellie, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I reckon there's more people out there in high heels than blind / partially sighted people. Whatever happened to pandering to the needs of the majority?

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top five things I haf just bought from Tesco:
5. 3 fresh white bread ROLLS
4. Fresh basil
3. Cherry tomatoes
2. A CHEESE SELECTION (brie, edam, cheddar, austrian sossidge cheese, rondele and crema bel paese WOTEVER THAT IS)
1. An apple, strawberry and cranberry juice advertised as ENERGY ENHANCER as I am tired, only to see it scan up on the till as LOVE JUICE.

How silly. I also bought a scotch EG and some matzo crackers but not eaten them yet.

Sarah, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Indie.

In what curious world do magic rectangles aid tessalation?

Graham, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It just looks nice that's all.

Pete, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bel paese is num num, starry

Jeff W, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 things on the Pizza I put in the oven 5 minutes ago.

1. Pepperoni 2. Cheeses. 3. Peppers. 4. Sauce. 5. Onions.

Top 5 things I'm glad aren't on it.

I don't need to do this one, I think we all know.

Top 5 things in this room currently.

1. Horizontal Headphones that look cool and have good sound. 2. Dictaphone with lottie in it. 3. Felix Da Housecat CD. 4. Computer. 5. Assorted notes, sheets a-4 pads, with dance music related scrawlings.

Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top five drinks as consumed by me on Sunday:

1. Lovely bottle of exploding Normandy cidre courtesy of Pete & the Grokalists.

2. A different bottle of exploding Normand cidre courtesy of Pete etc.

3. A pleasant if rather messy bottle of Spanish Sidra Natural courtesy of dodgy shop at Bilbao Airport.

4. A big old tub of Weston's Scrumpy courtesy of Tescos

5. Gin and tonic (relegated to #5 as a result of being PLYMOUTH gin)

, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Consumed = dribbled down your chin in this case. I have not forgiven you yet for the sunglasses comment.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plymouth gin = FABULOUS GIN.

Urgh it sounds horrifically zoider based on Sunday, sorry I couldn't make it, but you wouldn't have wanted my zoider hatin' ways there anyway.

Sarah, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have totally already explained that it was a compliment.

A significant proportion of the sidra natural was lost, it's true, but not down my chin. (Incidentally I decided I wanted to be a Masters of the Universe character called SidRa.)

Tim, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah, I took care of the zyder duties, leaving other drinks available for others.

Tim, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just because girls from Devon enjoy being likened to welders, doesn't mean you can get away with it with us sophisticated London types.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If highly-strung members of the home counties horsey set can't take a compliment it's hardly reasonable to blame us polite provincials.

Tim, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never ridden a horse in my life, Sid-Ra. Also I was always led to believe that compliments are not usually accompanied by sniggering laughter.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 lists on this thread so fa:
1) Buses of the 70's
2) Animals on the underground
3) The first top 5 of top 5's
4) Solutions to smell
5) Fools

Matt, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 vulgar expressions of anger/frustration:

5. "God damnit!"
4. "Shit!"
3. "Cockfarmer."
2. "Donkey balls!"
1. "FUCKSOCKS."

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 trys. 1) My third try to get over 1m 15cm in the High Jump at school when I was 15 (scraped the bar but it was a good effort) 2) If at first you don't succeed try, try again
3) Penalty try awarded to a team in rugby when they would have scored if it weren't for the cheating bastards on the opposition
4) Dentistry
5) To try - the verb when used in association with a court case.

Pete, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 things I did at my first day of work.

1. Fancied a coworker. 2. Used the magical tube to put money in a safe. 3. Sold petrol. 4. Signed a contract. 5. Went to McDonalds on the way home.

Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 Cigarette Brands To Try Before Quitting: 5) Newports (for street cred) 4) Benson & Hedges (they look so classy!) 3) Marlboro Reds (what I thought all old people smoke for a while) 2) Players (for grandma) 1) Matinee (to remind me of why i need to quit)

Dave M., Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

top5 jeans wash

1) indigo

2) stone

3 snow

4) snow (with patches)

5) used

born clippy, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

top 5 fasteners

1) velcro

2) press stud

3) button

4) that clip thing on suit trousers

5) damnit i only know 4

born clippy, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

TOGGLES!

Graham, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 blows to my heterosexual ego:

1. "Are you gay?"
2. "All the guys I know are effeminate."
"Wait, you know me, I'm not effeminate."
"Are you kidding?"
3. "So that girl you showed up with, is she your sister?"
4. "He's a poet."
5. Friend A + Me talking
Friend A abruptly leaves to talk to Friend B
Friend A: "Hey Friend B, let's go hit on those girls."
Me: ??????

bnw, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 bits of litter you will see when sitting on a park bench at the hieght of summer in london (a bit depressing really):

1. Cigarette butts
2. Lager cans
3. Sweet wrappers
4. Torn up travelcards
5. Yesterday's newspapers.

jel --, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top Five favorite dirty proverbs:

  1. The Juanita Special Bean Dip
  2. Pasadena Mudslide
  3. Rusty Trombone
  4. Dog in a bathtub
  5. Arabian Goggles

    Chris, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Richard Ellmann, JAMES JOYCE / 2. Brenda Maddox, NORA / 3. Peter Costello, THE YEARS OF GROWTH / 4. Herbert Gorman, JAMES JOYCE / 5. Stan Gebler Davies, JAMES JOYCE: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

The list is incomplete. I'm not sure it's in order either.

the pinefox, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 works of art which make me want to ingest substances/bleed/etc :

5. My Bloody Valentine - "Loveless"
4. Kafka - "In The Penal Settlement"/Mishima - "Patriotism"
3. The Fall - "Totally Wired"
2. Coleridge - "Kubla Khan"
1. Malcolm Lowry - "Under The Volcano"

Ess Kay, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 words/phrases people say when there not paying attention to you 5.Yeah 4.Umm 3.like 2.ok 1.dude

brg30, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 Reasons to love perl:
  1. regexes
  2. $#array -index of the last element of an array
  3. xemacs color perl mode
  4. $_
  5. derefencing complex data structures sytax

lyra in seattle, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

top five vi commands:

  1. ZZ
  2. /
  3. i
  4. o, or O (tie)
  5. "a10dd

Josh, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

5 interesting university of otago central library architectural features (with pictures!)

1. the "solar panel" quarter-cylinder ceiling fins
2. meta-lifts
3. th e hive-cubbyholes
4. DEEP- SEA CACTUS LAMPS!
5. tops of the wagonwheel computer-stations

Ess Kay, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but, but how can you leave out the giant ikebana thingy! The panels are green on one side, then on the other they are yellow! how I love to walk from one side to the other of this sculpture. Meanwhile there is a horrible horrible huge hunk of wood sculpture just outside the library.

halo halo, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice photos. Thanks SK. I am disappointed I'm not in any of them though. I'm sure I rememebr someone taking photos when H & I were on the computers there.

halo halo, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear- I refuse to believe that "a10dd is a command in anything, even vi.

Top 5 things I just picked up at the grocery store for my BBQ tonight:

  1. hamburger patties (pre-formed, so no messy hands!)
  2. whole wheat buns
  3. guacamole
  4. ketchup
  5. chips
no need to get more beer because my fridge is still full of it from the last time that people didn't drink enough.

lyra in seattle, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 beer (Melbourne edition):

carlton black
hoegaarden
coopers best extra stout
asahi
mountain goat

electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

top five perl regular expressions from the perlre man page (haha you refuse to believe WHAT is a command, lyra?!):




1.



$_ = 'a' x 8;

m<

  (?{ $cnt = 0 })                    # Initialize $cnt.

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Josh, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

vi is nuts. I still don't believe that's a valid command, but google & this site claim it is:

"a10dd Deletes 10 lines of text into buffer a

lyra in seattle, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you could just try it!

Josh, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...
Top Five things in "The Virgin Suicides"
1. "Your a stone fox"
2. Heart - Magic Man
3. Lux
4. Trip Fontaine
5. Peach Schnapps.

Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 ILx names:

The Pinefox
Tracer Hand
Ned Raggett
Sterling Clover
Gale Deslongchamps

Really Mundane (rdmanston), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Top five companies that have really pissed me off at some point:


1/ HSBC

2/ Connex South Eastern rail travel

3/ Emap Performance LTD

4/ London Transport

5/ Vodaphone

Anna, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

top 5 cities i have been to in the last 18 months

New York City
Berlin
Philadelphia
Brussels
Manchester(!)

gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Top Five Celebrities Who Appeared in my Dream in 1999 (and what they were doing there):

5. Michael Jackson (had moved into my old bedroom at my parent's house. This caused great tension between me and my mother, as the King of Pop's monkey kept bothering my cat.)

4. Terri Garr (was an attorney for Microsoft, and treated me with great contempt during my Kafka-esque trial for software piracy and arson of a Kebab stand.)

3. Low (performed a cover version of "Thank You for Hearing Me" while dogs played and many teenage girls hula-hooped on my parents' front lawn.)

2. Christina Ricci (did her.)

1. Weird Al Yankovic (was in my eighth-grade classroom as I flew around, telling everyone in the room that I hate them.)

Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 06:45 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
Top five fantastic things I saw on my journey home last night:
1. The way people walk when they're looking at the overhead monitors on railway station platforms.
2. A train visiting "Oldham Mumps" station.
3. Manchester by night from the railway going East from Manc Victoria is gorgeous.
4. A girl who looked just like Sam out of Eastenders in hotpants
5. An alleged murder scene not hours before.

Graham (graham), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

top 5 keys hit at random : si4n1

unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

top five mexcian restaurants in santa monica/west la, ca

monte alban on santa monica
border grill on fourth
serenita de garabaldi on fourth
lare's on pico
place at sawtelle and pico across from best buy

dan (dan), Friday, 1 November 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

five reasons

mary oliver
st. john of the cross
joe sorren
lydia davis
catherine keener

dan (dan), Friday, 1 November 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 Amusement Parks:

1. Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Blackpool, GB (1)
2. Efteling - Holland (I don't remember how to spell the name of the town...its a really big name and stuff)
3. Europa Park - Rust, GER
4. Lakeside - Denver, CO
5. Kennywood - Pittsburgh, PA

(1) And I'm not English, or even of Anglo descent. I envy you guys for this place. Southport too.

-
Alan

Alan Conceicao, Friday, 1 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Top 5 Slothrop personae:
5. Lt. Tyrone Slothrop
4. The guy what Greta thought was dead when she and Slothrop bonked.
3. Ian Scuffling
2. Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!
1. PLECHAAAAAAZUUUUUNGAAAA!

Leee (Leee), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Top Five Short Conversations I have had with Corner Shop Proprietors:

5.
EK: Twenty Benson, please.
CSP: You don't want any beer?
EK: Er, no thanks. Maybe this afternoon.

4.
CSP: Hey man, how are you doing?
[EK answers pretty friendlily, is drawn into short conversation, leaves and never returns to shop which is by far the closest to EK's flat at the time, instead walking to shops which are further away, owing to fear of having to talk to strangers.]

3.
[EK is purchasing some nice chocolates.]
CSP: These look good. Are they good?
EK: Yeah. I mean, I like them.
CSP: Mmm, they look good! Maybe I should have some?
EK: I think you should. They're good.
CSP: You think I should? They look good.
EK: Yeah, maybe you should. They're good.

2.
[EK is buying assorted groceries and some cigarettes. He pays, receives change, and continues to stand at the counter like a dope. CSP wonders why EK is still there.]
EK (finally, nervously): And the cigarettes?
CSP: I already gave you them.
EK [checks bag]: No, look, I don't think you did.
CSP: I did. Don't pull this crap on me.
EK: Seriously, I think you forgot to give me my cigarettes.
CSP; I gave you your cigarettes, okay?
EK: You didn't! [Checks pockets.] Shit. Here they are! [Grins with embarrassment.] Sorry!
[CSP sneers at EK, who leaves.]

1.
EK [in Scottish accent, which makes 'i's sound like 'u's]: Do you have binbags?
CSP: Do we have what?
EK: Binbags.
CSP: Sorry, I don't understand you.
EK: Binbags! [Spots binbags] Oh, there they are.
CSP: Ah! You meant BLACK bags. [Laughing at EK] You didn't want to say the word 'black' because I am black, eh?
EK: No, really, I call them binbags...

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Top five Urgent and Key questions in my inbox today:
5) Refinance Now - Bad Credit? OK
4) Tired of the stock market?
3) Do Your Butt, Hips, And Thighs Embarrass You?
2) Who Says Quitters Never Win?
1) Why pay for something that is free?

Graham (graham), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Top five floors in my block of flats. 1-11th 2-10th 3-9th 4-8th 5-7th.

Human, Sunday, 3 November 2002 04:50 (twenty-three years ago)

leeeee I love you!!!

Josh (Josh), Sunday, 3 November 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Make Out Albums:
* Virgin Suicides Score by Air
* Slowdive - Souvlaki
* Bjork - Homogenic (or Vespertine)
* Tricky - Maxinquaye
* My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Eyeball, tell me those were carefully selected from a top 20. then tell the rest. please. or get a tv show. yeah. do that.

g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 4 November 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

g-kit, I've probably got millions. I go to corner shops more frequently than anyone else I've ever known.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...
Top Five Ways to Revive a Thread:

5. More more!
4. And again!
3. Shazam!
2. Bump!
1. Revive!

Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 28 June 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Current Mexican bands:

1. El Gran Silencio
2. Cafe Tacuba
3. Jaguares
4. Celso Pina y su Banda Ronda
5. Los Tucanes de Tijuana

Neudonym, Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Top 5 reasons to be happy:

1. It's the freaking weekend
2. I am listening to Zwan
3. I just had lunch
4. er?
5. Bon Jovi tonight!

jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Top 5 DVD's in my collection

1. Iron Maiden - Videos of the Beast
2. Perfect Blue
3. Blood the Last Vampire
4. Transformers - Five faces of Darkness
5. er, I only have 4 'proper' DVD's, unless I include the ones that came with my Shakira, Sum 41 and Zwan CD's.

jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Top 5 batteries

1. Duracell M3 AA
2. HVW Super Heavy Duty AAA
3. 9 Volt
4. Everready D
5. Duracell C

jel -- (jel), Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

Top 5 posh sensitive outdoorsy british army officer type cunts of the early 21st century

1. James Blunt
2. Johnny Mercer
3. Rory Stewart
4. Ben Fogle
5. Bear Grylls

giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 November 2025 23:17 (three months ago)


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