# 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:** 99
**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:** [August 25, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1962 "2020-08-25T14:44:42Z")
Grendel’s mother. YMF autobiography. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1963 "2020-08-26T00:57:27Z")
Benjamin Franklin - informative and droll. Runner-up: Tony Blair - crisp, earnest and surprisingly revealing. YMF bio (not autobio) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1964 "2020-08-26T02:34:34Z")
Gould’s Book of Fish Fav person you wish you could read the bio of ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1965 "2020-08-26T15:26:08Z")
Barack Obama YMF kids’ book? ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1966 "2020-08-26T15:29:48Z")
_The Tattooed Potato (and Other Clues)_ by Ellen Raskin Still has high rereadability value for me as an adult. YMF poet ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1967 "2020-08-26T15:32:20Z")
Hard to narrow it down to one, but if I had to, it’d be Rudyard Kipling. A favorite poem of his: [Recessional by Rudyard Kipling | Poetry Foundation](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46780/recessional) YMF _Monty Python_ sketch? ---
**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:** [August 27, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1968 "2020-08-27T22:12:50Z")
The Argument Clinic. Most favorite SNL sketch? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1969 "2020-08-28T02:41:07Z")
Superhero Party, from 1979, with guest star Margot Kidder. [Superhero Party - SNL - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSp1zM_8cY) YMF SNL cast member? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1970 "2020-08-28T05:59:19Z")
Tina Fey was more of a writer, not a cast member, wasn’t she? I think I go with Gilda Radner. A lot to be said for the classics. YMF skeptic ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1971 "2020-08-28T07:25:32Z")
James Randi. Most favorite SCTV character? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1972 "2020-08-28T08:00:17Z")
Alf Fav deciduous leaf’ Mine is Post Oak. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1973 "2020-08-28T10:28:17Z")
Maple. The leaves all turn red before they fall, and you have these trees thick with red leaves. YMF Latin expression that is used in English without translation. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1974 "2020-08-28T14:03:33Z")
Q.E.D. / quod erat demonstrandum YMF non-English language? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1975 "2020-08-28T14:06:07Z")
Quenya YMF Tolkien character? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1976 "2020-08-29T03:15:28Z")
Eowyn, who as I recall is the only named female in LOTR boo Fav name that you weren’t sure how to pronounce when reading the book. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1977 "2020-08-29T06:32:10Z")
I’m not sure if you mean the LOTR books only, which I haven’t read, or books in general. If you mean in general, I’ll say “Clowance,” the second daughter of Ross and Demelza Poldark. YMF character from historical fiction. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1978 "2020-08-29T09:34:05Z")
Mattie Ross, from True Grit Fav popular US entertainer not born in North America ---
**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:** [August 30, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1979 "2020-08-30T03:43:40Z")
Chris Hemsworth. > [@jtur88](#): > > Eowyn, who as I recall is the only named female in LOTR boo[k]… No, there’s also Arwen, Galadriel, Rosie Cotton, Goldberry, Ioreth… and Shelob. And probably a few more. YMF action movie? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1980 "2020-08-30T03:47:56Z")
Escape from New York. Most favorite movie musical? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773/1981 "2020-08-30T03:49:10Z")
The Music Man. Robert Preston’s signature role, and Shirley Jones is awesome. YMF animal in a movie? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-favourite/792773.md?page=100)