My crew has a social game we play occasionally where the rules are such:
Name a “Top Five” catagory
Everyone compiles their own Top Five list.
A master list is created.
The list is passed around the room to scratch one off the list
When five items remain, that is the ultimate top five.
What’s great about it, is that it generates loads of conversation and interaction (and controversy)! You shouldaa been there the day that Barry Bonds was scratched off the list of “Top Five Baseball Players of all time”!
So here’s my delimma. I would like some help in creating some ideas for top five lists.
For example, some lists we’ve used in the past are:
Top five musical groups
Top five comedy movies
Top five sitcoms
Top five hottest female celebrities
Top five hottest male celebrities
Top five movie sequels (this actually turned out to be a really fun topic.
top five athletes of all time
top five athletes of the last n years (or of the current era)
top five animated movies
Top five hottest tv moms.
You get the gist. The idea is to come up with a catagory that you can come up with five entries pretty easy, but not such a wide open category that the individual lists can’t be compared to easily (i.e. top five movies of all time, was a really bad catagory).
I tried the musical one. Most of the group had trouble thinking of enough musicals! I was disappointed, as I came up with my list rather quickly (I’m 41).
I love the Cop/Detective Shows idea. I’ll definately use that!
I like the superheros one too. Of we ALL know, Superman would have to be number 1!
Wow, I like these. My best bet would be on song parodies, except they’d all be by Weird Al. The One-Hit wonders would be tough for me, as I wouldn’t be able to remember the groups. The only one I can think of, off the top of my head is by Christopher Cross.
We did the top 5 pickup lines just the other night! It was funny as hell. Let’s see, some of the winners were:
Do you work for FedEx? ‘Cause I saw you checkin’ out my package.
Hi, My name is Jason. I graduated from Tulane two years early, and now I’m in UGA Law School at the young of of 20. (This one made the final five, and was uproariously funny because it described one of the people in our group)
You get better looking every day, and today you look like tomorrow.
Want to order pizza and have sex? What’s the matter? You don’t like sex?
Songbook; looks good, I think it’s mostly essays. I haven’t read it yet, which is the only reason I list it in this slot.
How To Be Good; I haven’t read it yet, but since it’s a novel, it rates ahead of the essays.
Fever Pitch; As a sports fan I can respect what he was doing, I got busy with school, so I haven’t actually finished it yet. Not huge on soccer though, so I haven’t gone back yet.
About A Boy; I’m reading this right now and I really like it.
High Fidelity; this is the book that got me hooked (if you can call reading one book, and a half of two others, “hooked”). The movie did a good job with casting (I thought).
Honorable mention: he was the editor for “Speaking With the Angel”. I think it’s a collection of short stories.