# List O' Favorites **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 1999, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166 "1999-08-24T06:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bernard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernard)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/21 "1999-08-24T16:39:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie? _Braveheart_ 1a) Favotite action movie? _Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phanton Menace_ 1b) Favorite movie of any genre? _Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phanton Menace_ followed closely (if not equivalently) by SW:ESB, SW:ANH and SW:RoTJ. 2)Favorite Comedy? I **hate** to admit to this but _Happy Gilmore_ 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? _Robotech_ 4)Favorite Current Band? _New Order_ 5)Favorite Band Ever? _New Order_ 6)Favorite Book? _The Kyokushin Way_ or _Advanced Karate_ 7)Favorite Sport? _ **sport** martial arts_ 8)Favorite Actor? _Harrison Ford_ 9)Favorite Actress? _Meg Ryan_ 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system)? _Master of Orion 1_ but maybe MOO2 11)Favorite School Subject? _Machine Intelligence_ 12)Favorite Type of Food? _Hot, spicy rice_ maybe hot, spicy chicken wings 13)Favorite Animal? _My kitty_ 14)Favorite Cartoon? _Robotech_ 15)Favorite Drink? _Diet Pepsi_ 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? _Fundy National Park_ including _The Rocks_ which are nearby. Maybe, the _St. Louis arch_ … it is pretty nifty. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/22 "1999-08-25T05:04:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie?-don’t watch serious movies. Last one I saw and enjoyed was “Meet Joe Black” 2)Favorite Comedy? - Ace Venture:Pet Detective 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? Pop-Up Video (is that lame or what?) 4)Favorite Current Band? - not a band, but jazz pianist/singer Diana Krall 5)Favorite Band Ever? Boston (if I’ve got to pick a band) 6)Favorite Book? “Mere Christianity” or “The Screwtape Letters” by CS Lewis (going by books I’ve read the most number of times) 7)Favorite Sport? softball or horseback riding to play; I enjoy watching diving or gymnastic 8)Favorite Actor? Johnnie Depp 9)Favorite Actress? Don’t have one 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system)? Don’t play 'em 11)Favorite School Subject? Western Civilization in high school; turned me on to history 12)Favorite Type of Food? cereal (kids types) or in the restaurant category: Japanese 13)Favorite Animal? Tie between cats and horses 14)Favorite Cartoon? Fox Trot 15)Favorite Drink? Non-alch: Squirt Alch: Alabama Slammer 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? Crater Lake, Oregon or any Lake Michigan beach in Michigan ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/23 "1999-08-25T05:06:00Z")
1)_Amadeus_ 2)_Airplane_ and _UHF_ 3)_The Simpsons_ 4)Barenaked Ladies, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith, Jars of Clay 5)See above. 6)Fiction: \*On the Beach,\*by Nevil Shute. Nonfiction: _Into Thin Air,_ by Jon Krakauer. 7)Horse racing and grand-prix show jumping. Football’s pretty cool, too. 8)Um…no real preference. 9)No real preference here, either. 10)Galaga, Frogger, and Centipede. Yep, it’s been a while. 11)High School: AP English, Creative Writing College: Christian Ethics and Social Issues, Philosophy, and Methods of Social Research. 12)Shrimp (scampi, fajitas, whatevah), crab legs, lobster. Shellfish, shellfish, shellfish! 13)Horse (Andalusian, Fresian, thoroughbred, Morgan, and Quarter Horse are my fav. breeds) 14)Once again: _The Simpsons._ Well, and _Animaniacs._ And _Family Guy_. 15)Midori Sour and a Starbucks or Gloria Jean’s Caramel Mocha. 16)Yosemite. ## I just could pick one for many of these. 🙂 MMmmm…caramel mocha. Think I’m gonna go on a coffee run… “Me fail English? That’s unpossible!” “English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.” ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/24 "1999-08-25T05:33:00Z")
This is a good thread. 1.“The Year of Living Dangerously” 2. “National Lampoon’s Animal House” 3. X-Files 4. Hard one–Matchbox 20 5. Led Zeppelin 5. Lonesome Dove 6. sport–to watch or do? any water sport 7. Brendan Fraser (on a purely physical attraction basis) Paul Newman (on a personality/politics basis) 8. Joan Cusack 9. ??? Video games don’t appeal to me. 10. English (Things to do with reading, which I love.) 11. Mexican 12. Cat 13. “The Simpsons” 15. Iced tea–I drink it constantly with fresh lemon and no sugar. 16. Monterey, California 8. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/25 "1999-08-25T05:44:00Z")
1)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 2)right now, it’s Eric the Viking 3)Mr. Show with Bob and David 4)Joe Satriani 5)na 6)can’t read 7)track and feild, la cross 8)Anthony Hopkins 9)right now, Natalie Portman 10)Earthworm Jim 11)science and drama 12)Wendy’s Spicey Chicken Snadwich 13)as long as it doesn’t shit on me… 14)The Tick 15)Pepsi with lime 16)Crater Lake, Oregon ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/26 "1999-08-25T05:54:00Z")
1. Favourite Serious Movie: The Devil’s Advocate 2. Favourite Comedy: My Name is Trinity 3. Favourite TV Show: Everybody Loves Raymond 4. Favourite Current Band: ??? 5. Favourite Band Ever: Lynyrd Skynyrd 6. Favourite Book: Clockwork Orange 7. Favourite Sport: Golf 8. Favourite Actor: Jack Palance 9. Favourite Actress: ??? 10. Favourite Video Game: Duke Nukem 11. Favourite School Subject: English 12. Favourite Type of Food: Seafood 13. Favourite Animal: Dogs 14. Favourite Cartoon: Tom Slick 15. Favourite Drink: Caffiene Free Diet Coke 16. Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place: Blueridge Mountains ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 1999, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/27 "1999-08-25T05:59:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie? On the Waterfront 2)Favorite Comedy? Cabin Boy 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? Simpsons 4)Favorite Current Band? Morphine/Chas Gayle 5)Favorite Band Ever? Bad Brains/Coltrane 6)Favorite Book? Catcher in the Rye 7)Favorite Sport? Swimming 8)Favorite Actor? Marlon Brando 9)Favorite Actress? Bette Davis 10)Favorite Video Game? Tetris 11)Favorite School Subject? Literature 12)Favorite Type of Food? Italian 13)Favorite Animal? Dogs 14)Favorite Cartoon? Tom Tomorrow 15)Favorite Drink? Caffreys/Guiness 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? San Francisco Fun to read and fun to compile ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/28 "1999-08-24T18:00:00Z")
Doctor Jackson - Your favorite all time band isn’t Rush? I’m disappointed! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/29 "1999-08-24T18:17:00Z")
Falcon, I think Doctor Jackson has his priorities straight. FREEBIIIIIRRRD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/30 "1999-08-24T18:47:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie? - Chinatown 2)Favorite Comedy? - Amazon Women On The Moon 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? - NOVA 4)Favorite Current Band? - Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band 5)Favorite Band Ever? - The Grateful Dead 6)Favorite Book? - The River Why 7)Favorite Sport? - NASCAR 8)Favorite Actor? - Jack Nicholson 9)Favorite Actress? - Faye Dunaway 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system)? - Pong (I haven’t played a video game in years) 11)Favorite School Subject? - Philosophy 12)Favorite Type of Food? - Lasagna 13)Favorite Animal? - Suricates 14)Favorite Cartoon? - The Simpsons 15)Favorite Drink? - Beer!!! 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? - Trinty Alps/Trinty River (Northern California) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/31 "1999-08-24T19:36:00Z")
Serious Movie: Lion in Winter Favorite Comedy:depends on mood, but right now I would watch My Favorite Year again. Favorite TV show all time: Simpsons or MASH Favorite Current Band: None. They all suck. Yeah, I’m old and opinionated, bite me. Favorite band ever: Does Sinatra count? Favorite Book: too many to pick, so it’ll be the one I’m reading now: The Godfather. Favorite sport: Volley ball Favorite Actor: Peter O’Toole or Michael Caine or Kevin Spacey Favorite Actress:Anne Heche or Joan Cusack Favorite video game: none. Favorite School subj: Creative writing. Favorite food: ice scream Favorite animal:horses Favorite cartoon: Simpsons Favorite Drink: tea or frangelico Favorite Scenic: Coastline in Monterey CA Favorite Historic: Brandenburger Tor, Berlin Favorite Geographical: New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/32 "1999-08-24T20:10:00Z")
1. Favourite Serious Movie: The Devil’s Advocate 2. Favourite Comedy: My Name is Trinity 3. Favourite TV Show: Everybody Loves Raymond 4. Favourite Current Band: ??? 5. Favourite Band Ever: Lynyrd Skynyrd 6. Favourite Book: Clockwork Orange 7. Favourite Sport: Golf 8. Favourite Actor: Jack Palance 9. Favourite Actress: ??? 10. Favourite Video Game: Duke Nukem 11. Favourite School Subject: English 12. Favourite Type of Food: Seafood 13. Favourite Animal: Dogs 14. Favourite Cartoon: Tom Slick 15. Favourite Drink: Caffiene Free Diet Coke 16. Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place: Blueridge Mountains * * * The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/33 "1999-08-24T20:12:00Z")
Oh c’mon Strainger! Freebird or 2112? Easy choice… (Hmm, how long until the Skynyrd fans jump all over me…) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/34 "1999-08-24T20:22:00Z")
OK, here goes… 1. _Schindler’s List_ 2. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ 3. “M_A_S\*H” 4. Indigo Girls 5. The Beatles 6. _Dandelion Wine_ by Ray Bradbury 7. American football 8. Gene Hackman 9. Jeanine Garofolo 10)Centipede 11)Geometry 12)Italian (pasta) 13)cats 14)“Daria” 15)Coke and Bourbon 16)Chicago/Chicago/Chicago Well that wasn’t so hard, except that I probably misspelled “Jeanine”. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/35 "1999-08-24T20:35:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie: The Color Purple 2)Favorite Comedy: Clerks 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time: Seinfeld 4)Favorite Current Band: none 5)Favorite Band Ever: none 6)Favorite Book: The Stand 7)Favorite Sport: none 8)Favorite Actor: Nicholas Cage 9)Favorite Actress: none 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system): none 11)Favorite School Subject: biological and cultural anthropology 12)Favorite Type of Food: steak well done 13)Favorite Animal: cats 14)Favorite Cartoon: none 15)Favorite Drink: Dr Pepper 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place: Dunno. I have never been anywhere before! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/36 "1999-08-24T21:52:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie? Saving Private Ryan 2)Favorite Comedy? Harry and the Hendersons (cheesy, I know, but I laughed till it hurt. 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? Science Fiction Theater (circa 1960) 4)Favorite Current Band? What is considered “current”? 5)Favorite Band Ever? Dire Straits 6)Favorite Book? Any of the dozen or so early books by Larry Niven 7)Favorite Sport? To play or to watch? Going by “to watch”: Formula 1 racing. 8)Favorite Actor? Sam Elliot 9)Favorite Actress? Hmmmm… I need to think about that one. 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system)? Solitaire 11)Favorite School Subject? Calculus 12)Favorite Type of Food? Plain, very basic stuff. 13)Favorite Animal? Aside from my two dogs (my best friends), I would say any bird of prey. 14)Favorite Cartoon? Disney cartoons featuring Goofy 15)Favorite Drink? In general or alcoholic? Squirt(don’t say ANYTHING ya’ deves). I don’t/can’t drink any alcohol.(and don’t really miss it, either!) 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? Scenic: North rim of Grand Canyon Historic: Site on Cape Cod where Marconi’s antennas were. Rather barren now, but a significant step toward the “wired” society we live in now. Geographical: Meteor crater, Arizona (whatta bang that musta been!) ## FixedBack **FixedBack** “Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”~~_G.K.Chesterton 1908_ ---
**Author:** ![Jillybean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@Jillybean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillybean)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/37 "1999-08-24T22:48:00Z")
Serious Movie: Shawshank Redemption Comedy: Bull Durham TV Show: Northern Exposure Current Band: Dave Matthews Band: Grateful Dead Book: Skinny Legs & All (Tom Robbins) Sport: Deep sea fishing Actor: John Cusack Actress: Susan Sarandon Video Game: Myst School Subject: Literature & Fiction Type of Food: Lebanese Animal: Otter Cartoon: Ren & Stimpy Drink: Hard apple cider Place: Lahaina, Maui ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/38 "1999-08-24T22:49:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie?Spinal tap 2)Favorite Comedy?Rutles 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time?Leave it to Beaver-it was my preview of America, before getting here. 4)Favorite Current Band?Rutles 5)Favorite Band Ever?Rutles/Da Yoopers 6)Favorite Writer: Gogol 7)Favorite Sport?Bicycling 8)Favorite Actor?Tommy, on Rugrats 9)Favorite Actress?Diana Rigg (an early crush)/Debbie, on Thornberries 10)Favorite Video Game. Lego chess 11)Favorite School Subject? none.hated gym. 12)Favorite Type of Food? restaurant food 13)Favorite Animal?none 14)Favorite Cartoon? Thornberries 15)Favorite Drink?none, but water will do 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? Upper Peninsula:lack of history.interesting dialect. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/39 "1999-08-24T23:17:00Z")
1. Serious movie- \* Casablanca \* (classic Bogie and Bergman) 2. Comedy- \* Animal House \* 3. TV Show- \* Hill Street Blues \* 4. Current band- Sawyer Brown 5. Favorite Band- what else ? The Stones 6. Book- John Steinbeck’s \* Cannery Row \* 7. Sport- Baseball (Go Braves!) 8 Actor- Willem Dafoe 8. Actress- Anne Archer 9. Video Game- the “Final Fantasy” series on Super Nintendo 10. Favorite school subject- smoking in the parking lot and hotwiring cars (repressed Catholic school education) 11. Food- Steak, beef, dead cows, moo!! 12. Animal- Dogs (Nature’s original ass-kissers) 13. Cartoon- \* South Park \* 14. Drink- Vodka collins 15. Scenic place- Mt. Fujiyama on a spring morning * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 1999, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166/40 "1999-08-24T23:29:00Z")
1)Favorite Serious Movie? --The Shawshank Redemption 2)Favorite Comedy? --When Harry Met Sally, PCU (for straight comedy, not romantic) 3)Favorite TV Show of All-time? --ER, The Simpsons 4)Favorite Current Band? --Alice In Chains 5)Favorite Band Ever? --The Rolling Stones (yeah, they’re still current, but they’ve been around longer) 6)Favorite Book? --The Prince of Tides 7)Favorite Sport? --Football (American) 8)Favorite Actor? --Steve Buscemi, Ben Stiller 9)Favorite Actress? --Janeane Garofolo 10)Favorite Video Game (PC or system)? --FF7 11)Favorite School Subject? --English 12)Favorite Type of Food? --Indian, Thai 13)Favorite Animal? --Buffalo 14)Favorite Cartoon? --The Simpsons 15)Favorite Drink? --Long Island Iced Tea 16)Favorite Scenic/Historic/Geograpical place? --Fancy Gap, VA [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-o-favorites/7166.md?page=3)