Friday games - Top 5
Jul. 22nd, 2005 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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lysana. She recommends that if you don't know why this is the High Fidelity meme, that you rent the movie. I, however, love you, and don't want you to have to suffer the pains of John Cusack's asshole neuroticism (unless you like that sort of thing). So I will just tell you. In the film, the record-store employees (of which Mr. Cusack was one) would periodically turn to each other and say, "Okay -- top five side 1, track 1 songs", or "Ok -- top five songs for Laura's dead father" or other things like that. It was really the only fun thing that happened in the film, which was otherwise all about living in your own head and imagining the horrible things people might be doing to you instead of just asking them what they were about. But anyway, I digress. And I really did like the Top 5 game.
So, anyway, ask me about my top five $NOUN.
Assuming that I have an opinion about $NOUN, and am willing to answer, I will tell you what they are.
Be creative.
lysana. She recommends that if you don't know why this is the High Fidelity meme, that you rent the movie. I, however, love you, and don't want you to have to suffer the pains of John Cusack's asshole neuroticism (unless you like that sort of thing). So I will just tell you. In the film, the record-store employees (of which Mr. Cusack was one) would periodically turn to each other and say, "Okay -- top five side 1, track 1 songs", or "Ok -- top five songs for Laura's dead father" or other things like that. It was really the only fun thing that happened in the film, which was otherwise all about living in your own head and imagining the horrible things people might be doing to you instead of just asking them what they were about. But anyway, I digress. And I really did like the Top 5 game. So, anyway, ask me about my top five $NOUN.
Assuming that I have an opinion about $NOUN, and am willing to answer, I will tell you what they are.
Be creative.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 06:26 pm (UTC)Top five fictional presidents.
or
Top five hair-metal bands.
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Date: 2005-07-22 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 07:29 pm (UTC)I'm going to go for hair-metal bands... one question: Top five hair-metal bands *now*, or top five hair-metal bands *back then*?
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Date: 2005-07-22 07:31 pm (UTC)2. Tasting
3. Obscene gestures
4. Funny noises
5. Rocky Horror Spoon Trick, yo.
This is so why I'm not a culture-specific recon
Date: 2005-07-22 07:32 pm (UTC)2. Lugh
3. Manannan MacLir
4. Bast
5. Brigid
I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 07:42 pm (UTC)OMG Pie
Date: 2005-07-22 08:02 pm (UTC)2. Key Lime
3. Sweet potato
4. Lemon Meringue
5. French Silk
But I respect the inherent worth and dignity of all pie.
Re: This is so why I'm not a culture-specific recon
Date: 2005-07-22 08:02 pm (UTC)Also, Top Five Pizza Toppings?
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Date: 2005-07-22 08:04 pm (UTC)2. Dracula (eponymous)
3. Magneto (X-Men comics)
4. Asmodean (Wheel of Time series)
5. Captain Hook (Peter Pan stories, but especially as played by Dustin Hoffman in Hook... "To a ten-year-old, I'm huge!")
Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:10 pm (UTC)1. DOOM!
2. Phantasmagoria
3. Fantastic
4. Rhinocerotic
5. Invincible
Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:12 pm (UTC)Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:15 pm (UTC)But I suppose it doesn't matter. :)
Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:23 pm (UTC)hmmm.. oh well, I still like it.
Re: This is so why I'm not a culture-specific recon
Date: 2005-07-22 08:30 pm (UTC)Lugh is an Irish fellow -- he's sort of the god of generalized competence, and is often seen as a sun god, or possibly a thunder god, depending on who you ask.
Mannanan is Irish and/or Welsh (there's a Welsh Llew, as well, but he's a little different than his Irish cousin). He's an older sea god, traveler and sort of walker-between-worlds.
Bast is Egyptian - she's usually seen as a cat or a cat-headed woman, and is in charge of protection, war, and other qualities of wild cats, as well as granting the ability to have sex in the afterlife.
Brigid is Irish as well. She's a smith, a healer, a poet, a brewer, and a number of other things. She survived Catholicism and somehow got to be the foster-mother of Christ, which is fun.
Re: pizza:
1. Mushrooms
2. Pineapple
3. Jalapeno
4. Spinach
5. Cream cheese
Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:31 pm (UTC)Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 09:10 pm (UTC)Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 09:11 pm (UTC)Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 09:16 pm (UTC)Re: I'm new, but I'll play:)
Date: 2005-07-22 09:27 pm (UTC)asketh the book whore :D
Date: 2005-07-22 11:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-23 03:12 am (UTC)(that you actually get/have gotten)
Re: asketh the book whore :D
Date: 2005-07-23 03:25 am (UTC)*grin* Thank ye.
Date: 2005-07-23 04:53 am (UTC)Re: asketh the book whore :D
Date: 2005-07-23 04:53 am (UTC)Re: asketh the book whore :D
Date: 2005-07-23 01:08 pm (UTC)1. Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (I'm not sure why this should be true, but it must be true, based on number of times I've read the thing.)
2. Maskerade, Terry Pratchett (It's not *serious* fantasy, but hey. That's why I like it.)
3. The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams
4. Baudolino, Umberto Eco (I think that's fantasy, but it might be allegory. There are monsters in it.)
5. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (OK. There are cars in that.)
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Date: 2005-07-25 01:47 pm (UTC)Ok. It took me some time to think of five compliments I have actually gotten, but here you go:
1. Someone thinks I've done a good job on some creative project
2.
3. Someone asks how I got the idea to do something (and is actually interested)
4. People laugh at my stories/say I'm funny
5. Someone says I look good in something
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Date: 2005-07-25 06:40 pm (UTC)Nice recovery, however.