The Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed, which had the band playing with the London Festival Orchestra.
Favorite Moody Blues song?
Knights in White Satin
Favorite one hit wonder
Pachelbel’s Canon in D.
Favorite hotel chain.
Fairmont. More than once, they upgraded the ordinary room I’d reserved, to a full suite at no extra cost, on their own initiative.
Favorite airline?
I’m gonna catch some flak for this I’m sure.
Southwest
Because they allow boarding/deboarding at the back as well as the front a Burbank airport. So while everybody is fighting for a window/aisle at the front, I just walk to the back were there is plenty of window/aisle seats and I’m on and/Or off just as fast or faster than the idiots who stressed over getting a seat near the front.
MF city subway system.
That’s a tough one.
Moscow has the most aesthetically pleasing one. It’s very clean, even in the winter, when people track a lot of muddy slush in. It’s beautiful-- full of commissioned art. When I show people pictures of it, and say “Guess what it is?” they guess a church or a museum. They can believe it’s a subway.
NYC, on the other hand, has an entire underground city in its subway. You could actually live down there for days. There are restaurants, all kinds of stores-- it’s amazing.
DC has the most efficient one, though, and it’s clean enough, and safe enough. It’s not pretty, and doesn’t have coffee shops (except in the main hub, IIRC), but wow, does it get you where you are going.
They are all great. I can’t really pick a favorite, but I guess if I have to give the win to one of them, I’ll say DC, because what it’s good at is what subways are there for in the first place. Truly, I love them all, though.
MF really big city.
Chicago. Sure there are probably more charming and amenable cities out there but of the ones I am familiar with, it’s tops.
MF quote
Sometimes, no matter how badly you want something, if you don’t get it the felling goes away. Then it’s gone and you don’t even have the memory of wanting it.
MF non-chocolate dessert.
pumpkin pie
MF late night tv show host
I grew up with Johnny Carson and still have an abiding respect for him in some aspects, especially his support of JREF and his affinity for Nebraska, but the more I learn about his vindictiveness and straight-up meanness in some instances, the less I like him. He was a witty man who did it better than anyone for a long time, but some people you grow to love more and more, others…not so much. I’ll go with Craig Ferguson, mostly because he’s just straight-up funny, but also because of his occasional “deep” side, especially when discussing his alcoholism.
MF well-known person whom many (if not most) people think is an asshole for one reason or another? (I think this would be a heck of a thread in it’s own right, BTW.)
OT: RivkahChaya, have you used the London Underground? How does it compare with DC? I don’t recall the amenities that you describe in NYC (which I NEED to visit soon) or anything remotely like the aesthetics you describe in Moscow, but damn if it doesn’t take you to some amazing places. I’m thinking of the 1,800-year-old section of the Roman/Medieval wall around the Tower Hill Station. I found it easy to navigate, too–very like DC in that regard. Perhaps my standards are just terribly low, coming from Omaha and all 
Maybe Britney Spears. Just a country girl from Tangipahoa Parish, who got a lot of fame she didn’t deserve, then took a lot of media flak she didn’t deserve.
MF restaurant you ate at when traveling and never saw again.
Legal Seafood in Boston.
MF thing to do after all the holiday madness passes?
Chop up and hide the bodies. Now it’s Miller time!
MF Ad slogan to use ironically
I have used the London underground, but only a few times. I was 18, and don’t recall it that well. I was just in London a couple of days. I actually lived in Moscow, DC and NYC, so I have extensive experience with those subway systems. The underground did get me where I was going, IIRC, without delays and black-outs, and it was pretty clean.
Not sure if this entirely fits the bill, but Sports Illustrated came up with a slogan, IIRC, in the 1970s, for TV spots to convince people to give subscriptions as Christmas gifts, and emphasized that the recipient would get an issue every month (plus the swimsuit issue!), and therefore, think of the kindness of the giver on a monthly basis-- it was “The gift that keeps on giving.”
Later, the slogan “the gift that keeps on giving” was appropriated and applied to various STDs. Sports Illustrated dropped it (in fact, I don’t think they run TV spots at all anymore, but they still ran them for a while after dropping the slogan). I don’t know if they decided it had run its course, or they wanted to disassociate the brand from STDs.
Other than something like that, I can’t really think of anything else. But I must say, I did enjoy it. I’m going to repost, however because maybe someone else has a better example:
MF example of an ad slogan used ironically.
“When you care enough to send the very best.” I’ve seen this attached to all manner of detritus offered as gifts.
MF song associated with a holiday other than Christmas?
The Happy New Year Blues. I get them every year.
MF spider?
Any arachnid that happens to be 100 or more miles away from my current location
MF leisure pursuit?
Reading. I must own 10,000 books, although most of them are in boxes in storage now.
MF ad campaign that backfired (or just missed the mark in some hilarious way).
Mountain Dew asked the Internet to name their new soft drink. #1 result: Diabeetus
MF sex-related scandal