# Your MOST favourite.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773 "2017-08-04T14:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 113
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2242 "2020-11-15T15:09:41Z")
The BBC. YMF halloween candy? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2243 "2020-11-15T19:10:17Z")
Peanut butter cups YMF childhood Thanksgiving? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2244 "2020-11-15T20:52:34Z")
Would’ve been 1975 or so. Lots of aunts, uncles and cousins with us that year - good company, even better food, a crackling fire and our old dog Pepper underfoot. Ah, memories… YMF Thanksgiving food? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2245 "2020-11-16T00:50:09Z")
Stuffing with turkey gravy on top. (Also, I distinctly remember Thanksgiving in 1975. My cousins’ grandmother (the mother of my uncle) said, “(Kenobi), please pass me a roll.” 10-year-old me pulled a roll out of the basket and tossed it to her. She did not catch it, but it broke up the table, and my cousins still talk about “that time you threw a roll at Grandma!”) YMF astronaut or cosmonaut? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2246 "2020-11-16T01:19:46Z")
Sally Ride YMF Communist or formerly Communist nation or republic (which includes “SSRs,” as in the Uzbek SSR, the Georgian SSR, the Estonian SSR, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2247 "2020-11-16T01:28:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > My cousins’ grandmother (the mother of my uncle) I am very close to my aunt-by-marriage, and thus was close to her parents, so they were “Bobbe & Zayde” to me. My mother’s parents were “Grandma & Grandpa,” because my grandmother’s still-alive-when-I-was-born parents got the Slovak words. My father’s parents were “Saba & Safta,” the Hebrew words. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2248 "2020-11-16T01:31:45Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I am very close to my aunt-by-marriage, and thus was close to her parents, so they were “Bobbe & Zayde” to me. My mother’s parents were “Grandma & Grandpa,” because my grandmother’s still-alive-when-I-was-born parents got the Slovak words. My father’s parents were “Saba & Safta,” the Hebrew words. I love this! I was close to my uncle’s parents, too; though I didn’t have special names for them, except for Schatzie (German for “sweetheart”), which is what _everyone_ called my uncle’s dad - to the point where the phone book in the small town in Wisconsin where he lived had an alternate listing for him in the white pages which simply read “Schatzie.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2249 "2020-11-16T01:43:04Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I didn’t have special names for them, Bobbe & Zayde are the Yiddish words for grandma and grandpa, and it’s what my cousins called them. Because the whole extended family lived in New York, and in a pretty small area, several “sides” interacted at the same holiday gatherings, and were even members of the same synagogue in some cases. There were lots of Passovers that would have my mother’s parents, and grandparents for as long as they were alive, my father’s parents, my aunt’s parents, my aunt’s sister’s widowed MIL, and her “unmarried” son, who finally came out to us, and brought his long-time boyfriend one year. /hijack ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2250 "2020-11-16T02:40:29Z")
My mother was from Lithuania, but my favorite is Kyrgyz Fav cigarette commercial ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2251 "2020-11-18T16:07:01Z")
Any one which tells people not to smoke because it’s going to kill them. YMF food ad. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2252 "2020-11-18T17:16:43Z")
[How Many Licks?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6rHeD5x2tI), followed closely by the Hershey’s Kisses christmas bell. YMF cheesy local ad? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2253 "2020-11-18T21:21:30Z")
The local Dodge dealer. There’s always some kind of gimmicky come-on to try to attract customers. YMF Christmas ad that gets dragged out every year? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2254 "2020-11-18T21:34:25Z")
The Miller High Life “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” ad, which appears to date from 1981. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ktw4J8kg3SE/hqdefault.jpg "Miller Christmas (1981)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktw4J8kg3SE) YMF Christmas ornament? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2255 "2020-11-19T04:02:11Z")
A tiny teddy bear that I put high up on the tree. Every year my cat jumps up and catches it, then carries it around the house like it’s her kitten. She doesn’t disturb the rest of the tree. YMF holiday song? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2256 "2020-11-19T15:46:27Z")
Didn’t we just do this? Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song,” with a close runner up being the Purim drinking song “Chayav Inish.” Oh, YMF holiday that you don’t celebrate. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2257 "2020-11-19T16:04:42Z")
Arbor Day. Favorite Christmas joke song? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2258 "2020-11-19T16:39:23Z")
Bob and Doug McKenzie’s rendition of “Twelve Days of Christmas”: “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…a beer.” YMF non-Christmas parody song? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2259 "2020-11-19T18:07:35Z")
Trapped in the Drive-thru, by Weird Al YMF improv game ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2260 "2020-11-19T18:48:01Z")
Non-sequitur YMF mixed metaphor? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/2261 "2020-11-20T18:26:37Z")
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