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[jwhouk]

3. Old Man
2. Wonderin'
1. Ohio

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

[Bluesummers]

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]

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

runner up: Kindergarten Cop.

[Bluesummers]

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

[Asterus]

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

[idontunderstand]

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

Top three books read last year!

[Carl-E]

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

[Zingoleb]

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]

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]

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

O! To the M! To the G!

Top three deities...!

[LeeC]

(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.

Top three deities...!

3. Quetzalcoatl
2. Zeus
1. Iehova

top 3 tribal cultures

[Zingoleb]

man that question makes me feel uncomfortable.

[idontunderstand]

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]

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

Top Three Things You Like About February

[Barmymoo]

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

Top three dream holidays

[jwhouk]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Oi, don't forget Skyclad.

[Bluesummers]

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]

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]

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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Will you look at the size of that Neckerchief?

[Carl-E]

3) Hoover
2) Morse Code
1) Gerrymandering


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

[valley_parade]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Start a meth lab.

[Zingoleb]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Good choices, they are awesome

[jwhouk]

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]

3. McLusky
2. The Ergs
1. McLusky

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

[Bluesummers]

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]

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]

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]

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

[idontunderstand]

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...