A bunch of fives

[damerell]

At request;

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top
five of that thing or things. Except "coolest space pirates ever".

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Legs. (Yes, I know I've asked someone else this one already.)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

My right leg.
My left leg.

Both these legs are enormously important to me. My left leg comes last because it grew more verrucas growing up.

The leg which one loses to get legless.
Whichever leg Jackie Chan kicks mooks with the most.

Both these legs have provided me with many hours of entertainment.

The next leg of lamb I eat.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Cycle rides. (With a reason why the top one is the top one.)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

The End to End, because I've done it and I'm not bored of bragging about it yet. :-)

The ride up to Oxford, because it's that actually quite short trip that caused me to start thinking of long tourist-style trips as practical.

The ride up to Cambridge, because it's a good length for a day with time for a big lunch and to do stuff in the evening, and it finishes in a city I like.

The short hop from Twyford to Bracknell, because it generally means B-Movie.

The 11 miles home from work, because no more work for the day!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Bracknell...

I should be over at B-movie in September, are you likely to be there as well?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Yes - just not this month.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Anime.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Can I count Miyazaki as one? Otherwise there won't be much room left for anything else. World's greatest living animator, etc.

Bubblegum Crisis classic. The show got me into anime and I still enjoy it enormously.

Revolutionary Girl Utena - our standard advocacy series.

Haibane Renmei, which I'm not going to try and describe but is very very good.

Mobile Battleship Nadesico - mad parody of everything. It's even better after watching more of the stuff it takes off.

[zotz]

Lamest space pirates ever. Or, if you prefer, pop records (for your preferred definition of Pop).

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I see a pattern emerging here in that many of these things are things I don't have top fives of...

... in particular, I think the inherent coolness of space pirates makes it hard to have a bad one, not that I haven't seen some pretty awful Harlock cosplayers over the years. The "space pirates" in The Explorers who turned out to be the aliens' parents were pretty lame.

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Tory Prime Ministers

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Disraeli.

The Duke of Wellington.

Churchill.

Thatcher. No, I haven't had some sort of Damascene conversion - I just think she was good at being bad.

Tony Blair.

[No ordering.]

[emperor]

Worst porn pictures of our time

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I have tried to avoid seeing those - Austin might be your man - but I suspect some of the material from weds's smut job would qualify.

[senji.livejournal.com]

Bela Lugosi films

[damerell.livejournal.com]

You'd be amazed how few I have seen. Plan 9 obviously enjoys a certain notoriety; the Dracula that propelled him to fame must be included; and we'll have Bride of the Monster because I really enjoyed the MST3K episode.

[songster.livejournal.com]

1) Prescription medications
2) Non-prescription medications

[damerell.livejournal.com]

For #1, asthma preventer/reliever has to score the top two slots; codeine in prescription quantities; antibiotics that don't mean you can't drink; antibiotics that do mean you can't drink.

#2 - codeine in OTC quantities; Nyquil (Night Nurse is a largely ineffective clone of same); hot toddies (for medicinal purposes!); hayfever stuff that works and doesn't kill you if you eat grapefruit; baby cream for not having chafed thighs on fortnight's cycling trips.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Sexual positions

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Same copout as ali_anarres - whatever springs to mind at the time.

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Noses.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

My own - it's very useful.

ewx's nose - its size is truly impressive.

Elephants' noses.

Anteaters' noses.

The nose which is cut off to spite one's face. Poor nose!

[mpinna.livejournal.com]

What's your favourite variant of the sport Fives?

[mpinna.livejournal.com]

Have just realised everyone else is going to get five answers and my question only gets one. So here's four more questions:

Favourite song on the subject of five?
Favourite band with the word/number five in their name?
What would you do for a fiver?
What's so great about the number five anyway?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Sport; one where I don't have to play.

Song; "Room 57", Dreamies, has a '5' in the name.

Band; I can't think of any.

Fiver; Not much.

Number; sacred to Eris Discordia.

[dakeyras.livejournal.com]

EBM tracks.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I don't have a top one, I'm afraid, let alone a top five.

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

Gratuitous excuses for anime girls to remove clothing.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

#1 has to be transformation sequences. No magical girl show is complete without the heroine rotating nekkid.

#2 is that old standby, the trip to the hot springs. This works well because they can also get pissed on sake. However, dear animators, setting the show *in* a hot spring as in Love Hina (which is dire) is too lazy.

#3 is very complicated swordwork, as in Devil Hunter Yohko.

#4 is suit-up sequences in mecha series. BGC #1 has a pleasantly gratuitous one in.

#5 is the psychic blast that mysteriously rips clothing but not people. An old favourite.

[citizenpsmith.livejournal.com]

Private Eye covers.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

"Gay Sex: Edwina shows the Way" "I don't think the public will swallow it".

The Dianaballs one.

"How do we know Saddam has these weapons?" "We checked the receipt."

Prescott and Blair; "The working classes are behind me" "Happen I am, you poncey bugger."

"It's Armageddon, sir." "Armageddon out of here."

There are too many good ones - these are just what spring to mind.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Hairstyles.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Buzzcut!

Er. Besides that, a good mohawk is a joy. After that I start to run out of names of haircuts.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Northerners. (he says with evil beardy grin).

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I cannot construct a top five of people who say "bath" when they mean "bath".

[kludge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, do legs. But each leg has to be treated individually. If one person has both legs make it into the top 5, you've got to explain why the ranking (and no copping out and putting them "Joint 4th", for instance).

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Done.

[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

Bicycles

[damerell.livejournal.com]

The tandem which I own half of.

Bromptons - a work of truly devilish cunning.

Whatever recumbent trike I finally end up with, I hope.

A sort of gestalt of all the decent quality 80s steel touring frames.

The first bicycle. It is one of the most useful inventions yet.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Numerals (cardinal or ordinal at your discretion).

[damerell.livejournal.com]

0 (a good number to have of many things)
2 (all primes are odd)
23 (Discordianism)
57 (Dreamies)
not 531 - the bicycle steel is "five three one".
999 (has its uses)

[keirf.livejournal.com]

Metallic elements.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Iron (for steel which is really jolly amazing stuff)
Magnesium (burns)
Mercury (play value)
Potassium (I guess the ones further down make bigger bangs in water but I've never seen it done)
Niobium (I've got some in my ear)