Topic: Top Three Thread (Read 66831 times)

jwhouk · « **Reply #300 on:** 28 Jan 2013, 14:31 »

3. Old Man
2. Wonderin'
1. Ohio

Top Three Historical Events (during your lifetime) that you wish you could have seen live

Bluesummers · « **Reply #301 on:** 28 Jan 2013, 19:27 »

My lifetime? Hmm, not much to work with...

3. The last Space Shuttle launch
2. The fall of the Berlin Wall
1. Downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001 (It's a long story)

Top three Founding Fathers? (From whatever country you're from, doesn't have to be the United States)

LeeC · « **Reply #302 on:** 21 Feb 2013, 17:22 »

My top 3 Schwarzenegger films
1. Predator
2. Conan
3. Total Recall

runner up: Kindergarten Cop.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #303 on:** 21 Feb 2013, 18:30 »

(I think you're supposed to answer the "top three" question from the post above you, then ask one for the next person

)

Asterus · « **Reply #304 on:** 21 Feb 2013, 18:57 »

Top 3 items you've ever bought and immediately thought "That was not worth it..."

idontunderstand · « **Reply #305 on:** 21 Feb 2013, 23:19 »

3. Plastic guitar slide
2. Additional cutlery
1. Hip hop-ish clothing

Top three books read last year!

Carl-E · « **Reply #306 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 03:52 »

Fuck, I didn't even read three books last year.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #307 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 09:43 »

Oh, goodness, I don't know where to start on that.

3. The Obsidian Mirror
2. Food Not Lawns
1. Fragile Things

wow, that was a long year.

Top three types of flooring.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #308 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 11:35 »

3. Floors that play music when you walk on them (like these piano stairs and also some musical paving slabs in Bedford town centre)
2. Underfloor-heated wooden floors
1. Carpets that are so deeply plushed you feel like you're walking on a cloud (I have never actually walked on one of these but I am sure they exist somewhere, and I will find them. With my feet.)

Blood-Tree · « **Reply #309 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 14:20 »

3. Stars on the Hollywood walk of fame
2. Parquet
1. Warm Sand

O! To the M! To the G!

Top three deities...!

LeeC · « **Reply #310 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 14:38 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 21 Feb 2013, 18:30

(I think you're supposed to answer the "top three" question from the post above you, then ask one for the next person )

I guess this is why you shouldnt drink and post, my bad.

Quote from: Blood-Tree on 22 Feb 2013, 14:20

Top three deities...!

3. Quetzalcoatl
2. Zeus
1. Iehova

top 3 tribal cultures

Zingoleb · « **Reply #311 on:** 22 Feb 2013, 16:20 »

man that question makes me feel uncomfortable.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #312 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 04:52 »

3. Raggare (kindly refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A6050vJXgY )
2. Ewoks
1. Guys in kilts who like whiskey

Top Three Movie Monsters

jwhouk · « **Reply #313 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 08:39 »

3. Kong
2. The Great White in the original "Jaws"
1. Godzilla

Top Three Things You Like About February

Barmymoo · « **Reply #314 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 09:33 »

3. My birthday
2. Spring isn't far away
1. It's short

Top three dream holidays

jwhouk · « **Reply #315 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 14:41 »

I take it you mean "holiday" in terms of what we Yanks call "vacation", so:

3. Hitting all four of the major sports Hall of Fames (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey)
2. Trip to Europe - though I'd probably prefer roaming the UK and/or Ireland
1. Road trip on Route 66

Top 3 dream techno-gadgets (within or beyond your price range)

Redball · « **Reply #316 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 15:00 »

3. New ham station, including tri-bander on 50-foot tower.

2. Computer-controlled router (the wood kind) and time to use it.

1. 3d printer, and time to use it.

Best meal; menu and location. I'm hungry.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #317 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 17:02 »

3. Sandwiches in Berlin. We fed an enormous troop of sparrows and were in love.
2. Hamburgers in Tivoli. It was a difficult system to obtain food but it was a wonderful summer evening. Afterwards there was music and tea on a sheepskin and we were in love.
1. Hielander. A choice menu, several courses, deer, salmon, choclate cakes, wonderful salad, brilliant soup. And every course came with a new Islay single malt. I exited the restaurant rather drunk, but you held me steady and straight and you didn't mind. We were in love.

Top three jazz albums, please.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #318 on:** 23 Feb 2013, 23:09 »

3. Tommy & Coonie (Diligent Circle of Ekoda)

2. Rhapsody in Blue (the original concert performance by Paul Whiteman)

1. Gumbo Nouveau (Nicholas Payton)

Top three vacation destinations abroad [of whatever country you reside in], and north of the 45th parallel, if you please.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #319 on:** 24 Feb 2013, 11:09 »

Quote from: Redball on 23 Feb 2013, 15:00

and time to use it.

Dream on, you sucker!

3. China (Beijing, Tianjin)
2. USA (NY, basically)
1. Tibet

Top three best ways to leave a crowded room.

Carl-E · « **Reply #320 on:** 24 Feb 2013, 13:13 »

3. Quietly, so no one notices
2. Abruptly, slamming things on your way out, leaving everyone wondering.
1. Turning at the door, saluting and saying in a voice that stops all conversations, "So long, suckers!"

Top three ways to prepare a whole chicken. (it's sunday...)

Bluesummers · « **Reply #321 on:** 24 Feb 2013, 21:05 »

1. Szechuan (fry in oil, constantly basting the hot oil on top of the bird)
2. Drunken bake (in a solution of white wine, lemon and butter, basting occasionally)
3. Rotating spit over an open hickory fire (I'm feeling adventurous).

Top three types of humanoid mythical creatures.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #322 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 03:26 »

Good thing you specified humanoid, else I might be rambling for awhile here.

3. Fomorians or Rakshasas
2. Draiads
1. Selkies

Top three songs with violin in them.

snalin · « **Reply #323 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 04:19 »

Eluveitie - Thousandfold
Eluveitie - Quoth the Raven
Eluveitie - Inis Mona

It's easy when the best folk metal band ever has a violin in it.

top three (non-game) computer programs.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #324 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 04:39 »

Oi, don't forget Skyclad.

Bluesummers · « **Reply #325 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 04:56 »

Quote from: snalin on 25 Feb 2013, 04:19

top three (non-game) computer programs.

3. Jasc Paintshop Pro (The free alternative to Adobe Photoshop)
2. OpenOffice Suite (The free alternative to Microsoft Office)
1. Google Earth (The biggest computerized procrastination device to come into fruition since the internet was invented by Al Gore)

Top three types of sauce you'd put over pasta?

jwhouk · « **Reply #326 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 06:27 »

Wait - Jasc Paintshop Pro is FREE? I *PAID* for that thing... did they do something before they sold it to Corel?

Anyways:

3. Alfredo sauce
2. Marinara sauce
1. Tomato with meat sauce

I know, I'm pretty generic.

Given that: Top three things that are better as generics instead of name-brands.

Blood-Tree · « **Reply #327 on:** 25 Feb 2013, 13:49 »

3. Sellotape
2. Aspirin
1. Hoovers

Top 3 things that are named for people (e.g. 'Saxophone', as invented by Adolphe Sax)

In case you weren't aware, Adolphe Sax is so hip, he's on the 200 Belgian Franc bill. Legit:

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Carl-E · « **Reply #328 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 00:43 »

3) Hoover
2) Morse Code
1) Gerrymandering

Top three ways to get rid of annoying guests...

valley_parade · « **Reply #329 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 07:04 »

1) Leave house, set it on fire. Claim arson.
2) Repeated punches to the face
3) Throw them out, Uncle Phil style.

Since I am going to a job fair today...

Top Three hypothetical job fair games

jwhouk · « **Reply #330 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 07:44 »

3. Pin the tail on the job seeker
2. Tchotchke Collection Game!
1. Resume Rejection!

(Sorry, a bit pessimistic.)

Top three things to do when you're on vacation - and it's cold and snowing out.

Asterus · « **Reply #331 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 08:25 »

3: Capitalize on that kinda pleasant blue-ish white light and read a book by a window.
2: Find friends who are also snowed in and get an online party up and running
1: Say "Screw it" and FROLIC (Speed beer may or may not be included)

Top three things you can't stand in commercials because you KNOW they're wrong/misleading, but will probably work on most people anyway.
(ex: when drug ads cite that "over 40 published studies" support their claim, knowing full well that most people are unaware that publication does not mean the conclusion is reputable. Or when a Centrum commercial has an actor saying a drug study found it to be beneficial, but white text below states "The study was conducted on a different, older formula)

cesium133 · « **Reply #332 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 10:06 »

3. "It's up to 15% or more stronger!" (x <= 0.15 | x > 0.15... and stronger than what?)
2. "It's all natural!" (So is cyanide, ricin, and so on)
1. "These claims have not been reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration" (This item is snake oil, but since nobody reads the fine print, they'll think it actually does something)

Top three things to do while stranded in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #333 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 10:15 »

being in that position, I'd be really curious to find out the answer, because I don't even think the people living here know the answer to that, other than

3. suicide
2. alcohol
1. marijuana

cesium133 · « **Reply #334 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 10:18 »

Quote from: Unicorn on 26 Feb 2013, 10:15

being in that position, I'd be really curious to find out the answer, because I don't even think the people living here know the answer to that, other than

3. suicide
2. alcohol
1. marijuana

Well, that's what the locals do, but I wanted to see if anyone could come up with a more creative idea.

valley_parade · « **Reply #335 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 10:27 »

Start a meth lab.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #336 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 10:39 »

actually, that keeps happening. I can't find the one story - apparently one bust was out in Lyndonville or Holley, somewhere (with 850 and 1,800 people in each, respectively), and they busted a meth lab in the basement of a day care centre. Oof.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #337 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 11:02 »

I left my home town about a couple years after Meth Labs became a big thing in rural areas. There were a lot of meth labs.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #338 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 11:04 »

Oof indeed.

What I did:

3. Start a band or several if there's opportunity (probably not)
2. I guess I'm going to have to say read, browse the internet and BEEEEEEEP
1. Start boxing and beat up other kids

Top Three Guitar Solos

valley_parade · « **Reply #339 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 11:30 »

3. Wilco's "Impossible Germany". Just...man. So good. Absolute freakout in the middle by Nels Cline, and then all three guitars come back onto the same page right at the end.
2. I'm such a sucka for Mark Farner's early stuff with Grand Funk Railroad. Por ejemplo
1. Wata's entire lead bit from Boris' "Naki Kyoku" (from 2:42 on)

Asterus · « **Reply #340 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 12:41 »

Quote from: cesium133 on 26 Feb 2013, 10:06

Top three things to do while stranded in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Sorry for the tangent, but my immediate thought was "Do not do ANYTHING that was ever done in Alan Wake, Silent Hill, or a Stephen King book"

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #341 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 13:59 »

Not necessarily my top three and depending on your definition of 'solo', not necessarily solos either.

More 'solo guitar' than 'guitar solo', but Classical Gas is a favourite
The latter half of Telegraph Road is good.
The guitar-piano-bass-drums (max three at once though) piece here.

I like Dire Straits. Could you guess?

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #342 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 17:16 »

Good choices, they are awesome

jwhouk · « **Reply #343 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 19:12 »

I'm obviously dealing with children here.

3. "The End", John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney
2. Intro to "Crazy Train", Randy Rhoads
1. "Eruption", Eddie Van Halen

Top three musical acts you wish you could have seen live.

valley_parade · « **Reply #344 on:** 26 Feb 2013, 22:07 »

3. McLusky
2. The Ergs
1. McLusky

Throw it back at you, three worst bands you've seen live

Bluesummers · « **Reply #345 on:** 27 Feb 2013, 06:08 »

3. Madina Lake (They need more practice)
2. The Bled (they need a dictionary...white noice is NOT music)
1. H.I.M. (terrible stage presence, the lead singer is up there taking a drag on his cigarette like he thinks its hip to do when you're supposed to be singing for people who've paid good money to see the show, what an arrogant douchefucker)

(As you can tell, I haven't been to many live shows. Those bands are all from the Projekt Revolution 2007 tour.

I've also seen a show headlining Novus Dae, but all of the bands there were pretty cool. I even play cards with Novus Dae's drummer from time to time. Is nice.

Top three ways to total a vehicle while making it "look like an accident"...

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #346 on:** 27 Feb 2013, 06:19 »

Ooooh, I want to answer both of those.

Wish:

3. Smashing Pumpkins
2. Queen
1. Grateful Dead

Worst:

3. Whoever opened for Ghostland Observatory at Terminal 5 in 2011
2. The Mars Volta
1. Amy Winehouse (sadly...I had high hopes but I think she was a wee bit intoxicated at Lolla 2007)

Red Text

No! I'm posting anyway!

Carl-E · « **Reply #347 on:** 27 Feb 2013, 08:21 »

Quote from: Bluesummers on 27 Feb 2013, 06:08

Top three ways to total a vehicle while making it "look like an accident"...

3) Find a cliff. Be sure you're unbuckled, and jump out well before the last minute. "Lucky I got our when I lost control!"
2) Find a Moose/elk/water buffalo/bear. Not good for the cruelty factor.
1) Cut down a tree. If you've done it before, you know how to aim it. If not, Murphy's law will come into play... and the tree will hit your house instead of the car.

Top three ridiculous staements by political leaders not in the US. (can't make it too easy...)

Bluesummers · « **Reply #348 on:** 27 Feb 2013, 19:31 »

Awww....but our politicians are chock full of bloopers!

idontunderstand · « **Reply #349 on:** 28 Feb 2013, 00:33 »

Quote from: lepetitfromage on 27 Feb 2013, 06:19

2. The Mars Volta

Can I ask why? I've heard they're a pretty wild live band.

Carl-E, I'll be getting back to that one...

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