1. Donald Sinden2. John Bardon3. Rev. Ian Paisley4. Some bloke out of Primal Scream
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 12 September 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Beethoven Symphonies
1. #5 in C minor2. #7 in A major3. #6 in F major "Pastoral"4. #9 in D minor "Choral"5. #3 in E-flat major "Eroica"6. #8 in F major7. #4 in B-flat major8. #1 in C major9. #2 in D major
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 29 November 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Finest Skit TV Shows ranked 3 ways
Skit TV Shows by Audacity of Innovation:
1. Monty Python2. SCTV3. Saturday Night Live4. Kids in the Hall5. Mr. Show
Skit TV Shows by Average Quality
1. The Kids in the Hall2. SCTV3. Monty Python4. Mr. Show5. Saturday Night Live
Skit TV Shows by Quality of Top Material
1. Mr. Show2. SCTV3. The Kids in the Hall4. Monty Python5. Saturday Night Live
Subjective Winner Based on Subjective Rankings:
1. SCTV (12 points)2. The Kids in the Hall (10 points)3. Monty Python (10 points)4. Mr. Show (8 points)5. Saturday Night Live (5 points)
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
invisible worldimaginary worldvisible world
― ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Karl Malone), Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:06 (nine years ago) link
Finest Skit TV Shows are obviously The Kenny Everett Video Show and Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, very poor
― soref, Sunday, 30 November 2014 10:03 (nine years ago) link
Mother of All SaintsLovelyvilleI Hope It LandsStrangers from the UniverseWormed by LeonardBob Dinners etcTangle
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 30 November 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
soref, thanks for the belligerent tip, I did some watching on YouTube. The Everett stuff I saw was warmed over Python, other than getting real pop musicians in the skits ("bring a celebrity in to do jokes about their own celebrity" is the only thing that has kept Saturday Night Life-Support from flatlining altogether). I'll keep watching Holt, most of the jokes are incomprehensibly local for me, but I'll try. They tried to sell Tracey Ullman in America once upon a time, but I get now that Holt is the original.
Being trapped in my USA worldview, I conclude that Canadians made the two best sketch shows, & that Monty Python travels pretty well across time & space, considering. I can't imagine either of the shows you mentioned crossing the Atlantic or even the English Channel. Not that it should matter to you, of course - being objective about comedy is a joke.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Worst 10 Breads
1. Injera
WHAT?! Take that back!!!!
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
sorry, I didn't mean to sound belligerent, agree that the idea of objective opinions about comedy is silly, and that those two shows are maybe quite location specific and maybe era specific in their appeal (though I'm sure I remember a few US ilxors talking about Acorn Antiques? I like the idea of that having a cult following in the states)
― soref, Sunday, 30 November 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
It's all cool! Victoria Holt is obviously good stuff, although a lot of jokes are going to go right past me. And at the very least I need to see the Kate Bush skit on the K.E. show (I do already know the one she did with Rowan Atkinson on his tv show, the song with "do bears la la la....").
― Vic Perry, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
A REAL list of best breads
1. croissant, filled with chocolate2. garlic bread3. scallion pancake4. focaccia5. injera6. flour tortilla 7. pocketless pita/middle eastern flatbread8. donut9. sourdough10. bagel11. croutons12. soft pretzel13. naan14. baguette15. english muffin16. bread17. waffle18. pancake19. biscuit20. cornbread
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 December 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
xp Kate Bush skit can be seen at 6:49 here:
http://youtu.be/lXtXkf4ObP4
― soref, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
At this moment, on first listen:
1. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
2 - infinity. everything else
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 1 December 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Top 5 post-Magma records (1984-93):
1. Offering: I-II2. Christian Vander: A Tous Les Enfants3. Offering: A Fiieh4. Offering: Paris Théâtre Dézajet 19875. Christian Vander: Les Cygnes Et Les Corbeaux
― Dominique, Monday, 1 December 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
WTF CORNBREAD SO LOW>>>>
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
Stevie, you cause sadness.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
I think you hate the south.
I just had a conversation with my 1 year old daughter about not being like Stevie D and that she has to like good bread.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
now i'm anticipating teenage ivy shouting, 'fuck cornbread' in a dawn davenport voice.
― estela, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
I sincerely think my cornbread could cause Stevie to bump it up 5-6 spots.
― WmC, Monday, 1 December 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
17. waffle18. pancake19. biscuit20. cornbread
What is the matter with you?!
― Eric H., Monday, 1 December 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
I love all of those things, you guys! Those are only the breads that I really truly like! I just like 16 other types of breads more than those breads!!
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
stevie your list is upside down what the FUCK
srsly this is an outrage
#yesallcornbread
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 December 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
2. stevie d's bread list3. fgti's bread list
i have not made a bread list
― schlump, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
1. the hide of stevie d.2. the protestations of stevie d.
― estela, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
is this a list of favourite rainer werner fassbinder films
― schlump, Monday, 1 December 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
marvingladysslitsccrzappall others
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Sunday, 29 March 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
Top 10 best times of day:
1. 4:20 pm2. 12:34 pm3. 8:00 am4. 11:00 pm5. 6:30 pm6. 1:11 am7. 9:00 am8. 1:00 pm9. 10:00 pm10. 7:30 am
And the worst of the worst:
1. 5:15 pm2. 4:30 am3. 2:22 am4. 3:30 pm5. 6:01 pm
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Top ten happiest men's names:
1. Eduardo2. Filipe3. Mordechai4. Wei5. Rufus6. Jackie7. Gaylord8. Angus9. Sundeep10. Buckley
Saddest men's names ;___;
1. Eric2. Steve3. Amos4. Brad5. Sigmund
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Sad.
― Eric H., Friday, 3 April 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
Don't worry man the list changes all the time, maybe by 2030 or so Eric'll be back on top
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
3. Amos
b-b-but 'Amos Moses' is one of the happiest songs of all time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g
I feel like the easiest way to ensure that your son will never enjoy life is to name him Chad. or Mervyn.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
These are not ranked by the happiness of people who bear the name, but the intrinsic levels of joy/sorrow that these names contain in the abstract. Amos means "burden" so it's pretty sad.
Deviations were taken into account. "Jackie" is the happiest form of "John/Ian/Jonathan/Eoin/Johnny" and so on. "Chris", possibly the saddest name in history, is saved by the happy qualities of "Christopher". "Steve" and "Steven" are sad, "Stephan" and "Stefan" are still pretty sad; "Stevie" alone is joyful. Nobody should name their child Chad that is the name of a country, nobody should name their child North Carolina either. Mervyn is a terrific name
― got a long list of ilxors (fgti), Friday, 3 April 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
Oh no, I'm definitely very sad. Thanks, mom and dad, for the name.
― Eric H., Friday, 3 April 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
Bradley,
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Friday, 3 April 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
1 Uncle Meat2 Lumpy Gravy3 YCDTOSA Vol 2 (Helsinki concert)4 Hot Rats5 The Grand Wazoo6 Burnt Weeny Sandwich7 Läther8 Roxy & Elsewhere9 Weasels Ripped My Flesh10 Cruising With Ruben & the Jets11 Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar12 Waka/Jawaka13 Freak Out!14 Absolutely FreeMake a Jazz Noise Here & The Best Band You Never Heard in Your LifeZoot Allures...at this point, most every album is a mix of manure and gems and it's hard to rank them. I haven't listened to the Yellow Shark and Civ. Phaze 3 in years but they would probably place pretty high up.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Apostrophe? We're Only in It...? Surely both too good to be lost in the murk.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
XOJVZRQBSKGPTWMHLYCIEFUDNA
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Dang, I always leave out something important. I'd put WOIIFTM at 3.5, above Hot Rats. Apostrophe, Overnite Sensation, One Size Fits All -- I lump those in the gems/manure category. Never been a big fan of Apostrophe.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Most of the time these days when I want to listen to FZ music I go to the chamber ensembles and big bands (Ambrosius, Omnibus, Ensemble Modern, Le Concert Impromptu, Ed Palermo) that have done albums of his work.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Easter Candy.
1. Jelly Beans-the Christopher Walken of Easter Candy, just a bit part that always steals the show.2. Cadbury Creme Eggs-I mean come on. They just own Easter. 3. Whoppers Robin Eggs-do you ever think, 'if whoppers just had more candy on them'? I know I do.4. Peeps-Look, we're all dying. 5. Reese's Chocolate Eggs-Pretty much a straight rip off of Cadbury, but still more effort than Snickers, which just goes in a pastel wrapper and calls it a day. 6. Skittles/Starburst filled Easter Eggs-still better than...7. Random foil covered milk chocolate easter bunny-which I eat anyway and then get all judge-y about.
Tears of Unfathomable Sadness1. Brach's anything. too hard a shell and too crappy a marshmallow. They are just so sad, kind of like how I feel when I go to the movies alone. 2. Cadbury Caramel Eggs-Living proof that there is too much of a good thing, but always kind of fun knowing that someone is going to have this all over their shirt. 3. Easter corn-get your ass back to Halloween.4. Nerds anything. My non-chocolate palate is all stocked up with Skittles and Jelly Beans. Go away.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Cadbury mini eggs above all else.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
too hard a shell and too crappy a marshmallow
Are you talking about those things that are shaped like elongated eggs, have a hard (but not crunchy-hard), kinda thick, pastel-colored shell, and inside it's sorta like a circus peanut but it's white, airier and a little granular? Do those things have a name? From what I remember, I actually like them.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
no I'm talking about these sad critters: http://www.candywarehouse.com/products/brachs-wrapped-marshmallow-easter-eggs-15-piece-bag/
― campreverb, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
elephantsbottlenose dolphinsorcaseuropean magpiesgorillashumansbonoboschimpanzeesrhesus macaquesorangutans
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
(humans, bonobos, chimps, and macaques may as well be tied for 6th place afaic. but all the right angle brackets in the world cannot bridge the gap between these four primates and orangutans)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
great ranking, wd personally promote magpies 1 place but that is pointless cavilling
did u see Virunga btw, didn't think I could still have my heart melted by gorillas but I was wrong
― imago, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
That's them, but I would never call that stuff in the middle "marshmallow"--it's not squishy/sticky/springy/marshy-mallowy.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I like those things!
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Liar liarFight clubAmerican beauty
― Dainger! High Doltage (wins), Thursday, 16 April 2015 05:41 (nine years ago) link