meme-sheepage

[sabotabby]

Okay, okay. Give me something fun to do later.

Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things.*

* Excluding books and bands. I've answered enough of those, and I can't narrow either down to five, anyway.

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[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Desserts.

[sabotabby]

Given that my idea of yummy dessert these days is a fruit...

1. Any kind of cheesecake.
2. Chocolate mint ice cream.
3. Key lime pie.
4. Homemade chocolate chip cookies. Better yet, chocolate chip cookie dough. Yes, I am trash.
5. Baileys and Kahlua milkshake.

[rote.livejournal.com]

Top 5 kitten types. Or top 5 baby animals.

[sabotabby]

I'll do baby animals.

1. Kittens, obviously.
2. Wombats.
3. Koalas.
4. Otters.
5. Anteaters.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

you forgot aardvarks.

[sabotabby]

Ummm.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_flyonthewall_/]

has someone been watching "High Fidelity"? :)

Top 5 places to visit
1. Africa
2. SW (four corners area)
3. Nepal/Bhutan
4. Jerusalem
5. Mongolia

[http://users.livejournal.com/_flyonthewall_/]

and your top five places to visit ?

[sabotabby]

1. OMG
2. Absolutely
3. Anywhere
4. But
5. Here.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_flyonthewall_/]

lmao. c'mon! answer it for real, eh!

[sabotabby]

That was it for real. :(

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

The celebrity meme seems to have been lopped to five, so that. Though I had a hard enough time stopping at ten. Do as many hot celebrities' photos (and commentary, please) as you'd like.

Alternatively: Top Five --

Bars in Toronto, with commentary

Places in Canada, ditto

Political events (rallies, marches, forums, speeches, conferences) you've been to, ditto

Political personalities you've been around, locally

Awkward Moments.

Damn, I like all of these. I might do them myself, too.

[sabotabby]

I shall save the celebrity one for another time, because it has to be divided into smaller categories, like dead celebrities or women for whom I'd switch teams.

Bars in Toronto, with commentary
1. McVeighs, because I'm still not sick of it. You've got fantastic music, the closest I've found to decent chips in this city, and pictures from the 1916 Easter Rising on the walls. And they know how to pour a Guinness. I don't even need to order there.
2. Amnesia, for the sole reason that you can order a shot of flaming absinthe there for $10. Also, they frequently give me free drinks. It sucked living above that place, though.
3. Green Room, because it's like home.
4. Byzantium, for the kick-ass martinis.
5. Castro's Lounge, for the hilariously chic Marxist decor.

Places in Canada, ditto
1. Toronto. Center of the universe, yo.
2. Montreal. Because it's actually cooler than Toronto, but you didn't hear it from me.
3. The pink beaches in PEI.
4. Nunavut. Never been there, but I like the sound of it.
5. The redwood forests in BC.

Political events
1. O-16. (October 16, 2001; snake-march through downtown Toronto.) It seemed really lame at the time, but most of the friends I met later were there too. It's a point of reference for all Hogtown activism, albeit for no particular reason.
2. April 16 IMF protests in Washington, DC. I just like saying I was there. It was fun, except for when we all got gassed.
3. June 15, 2000, anti-poverty protest in Toronto. My first "riot"!
4. The York TA strike in 2001, because we actually won it.
5. The IWW Centenary in Chicago. Awww.

Political personalities you've been around, locally

Hmmm. Locally, as in from Toronto? Or showing up in Toronto?

Awkward moments
See response to mcsokrates's second question. ;)

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

a couple:

top five leftist haircuts
top five worst things you've said/your partner has said during/before/after teh secks
top five ways to kill a capitalist
top five fanfic cliches.

[sabotabby]

top five leftist haircuts
1. The Harry Potter.
2. Dreads (but only on Black people, okay?)
3. The Pixie.
4. The Crazed Hippie.
5. Actually having your hair like a normal person and expressing your politics through action rather than fashion; now there's a thought. I suppose one could use the axe I'm grinding to cut one's hair.

top five worst things you've said/your partner has said during/before/after teh secks
1. Me: "Just write your number somewhere and I'll call you later, okay?"
2. Me (later, and not to him): "Damn...what was that guy's name?"
3. Anyone: "Ow."
4. Me: "You're how old?"
5. Both: (giggle, giggle) "Just how much did we have to drink last night?"

top five ways to kill a capitalist
1. Revolutionary firing squad.
2. Guillotine.
3. Cement shoes.
4. Garroting.
5. Forced to endure endless Noam Chomsky lectures until dead of boredom.

top five fanfic cliches.
1. Sniping at one another (literally or figuratively) = intense sexual attraction.
2. Angel's "perfect happiness" clause excludes men.
3. Roy Orbison. Clingfilm.
4. "He's not a psychopath. He's just misunderstood."
5. "I always carry condoms and lube in my jacket. You know, just in case."

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

if i may say so, the pixie is my favourite. Very hot.

[sabotabby]

Pity about the plastic surgery later on, though.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

see, I almost feel like the anarchist beard deserves a category of its own.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

Top five completely crazy people you've encountered in public.

Um...top five things that suck about anarchism (either the concept or the movement).

[sabotabby]

Top five completely crazy people you've encountered in public.
1. The knuckle woman from the other day.
2. The girl with purple kneesocks who was carrying around a pigeon and kissing it.
3. The guy who's being "held hostage by terrorists."
4. Arnold Winslow.
5. The guy who is never seen without his flock of miniature greyhounds.

Um...top five things that suck about anarchism
This is the only list that's actually in order so far.

5. Getting 10 people to reach consensus on where to go for dinner.
4. "I'm an anarchist because I like Rancid and society fucking sucks, man. Who's Kropotkin?"
3. Eurocentrism and resistance to compromise and change.
2. "Deodorant is counter-revolutionary!"
1. Anarchists.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

Top 5 lj personalities to complain about in r_a_c and why :))

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

LOVE your pic!

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sabotabby]

1. Eric Beltt, not because he's any more stupid than other neo-cons, but because you can't comment in his LJ. And face it, there wouldn't be a r_a_c without him.
2. la_palomita. She's a nutcase hell-bent on massacring all Arabs, and I don't think she gets enough credit because most of her posts are in a community no one watches.
3. amandagrace, because she's the new (or old) amalea, minus the kids.
4. aelius, because he says explicitly what about half of them are thinking.
5. she_snailie, because you can always post a picture of escargot and watch her squeal about lynching Black people. It never gets old.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Revolutions.
Buffy episodes.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

your icon frightens me, only because i'm trying to imagine marxist buffy fan fic. i cannot imagine it as anything but a tragedy.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Anarchist Buffy fanfic, on the other hand, is superfluous, as it is canon.

The icon was custom-made for me by our good hostess. :)

[sabotabby]

Revolutions.
1. Spain, because as a card-carrying anarcho-cynicist, I have to point it out all the time until people scream, "Enough about bloody Spain already; it was only three years!"
2. Russia, for the scale and teh drama.
3. Cuba, for the persistance.
4. Haïti, for the "I bet you didn't see that one coming" factor.
5. Nicaragua, because I can actually remember the tail end of it.

Well, that was depressing.

Buffy episodes
1. Once More With Feeling
2. Hush
3. Becoming II
4. Graduation Day II
5. Anne.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

what, no "The Body"? Otherwise, well-chosen!

[sabotabby]

I've only seen "The Body" once because it makes me too upset. Which, I suppose, attests to how good an episode it is, but still.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Pernicious false etymologies.

Politically correct mumbo-jumbo euphemisms.

Tyops.

[sabotabby]

Pernicious false etymologies.

This one's in order, too.

5. Picnic
4. Rule of thumb
3. Blackmail
2. Niggardly
1. Woman, person, etc. Especially when it results in hilarity like "wimmin" and "persynally."

Politically correct mumbo-jumbo euphemisms.

1. "Delayed success" for fail.
2. "Disengagement" for whatever it is Ariel Sharon is planning now.
3. "Headcount adjustment" for layoffs.
4. "Urban" for Black. (WTF?)
5. "Sexuality and gender diverse" for LGBTT.

Tyops.

1. "Teh"
2. "Pr0n"
3. Not to toot my own hron, but "dunk postie"
4. "I tpye goodly"
5. !!111 and its variants.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

What's the PFE of Picnic?

[sabotabby]

Something to do with lynching.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

OK, now that's one of the more bizzare EPAs. "Woman" is at least understandable. "Rule of thumb" at least has some basis in fact, in that some judge did talk about it in that connection, even though it clearly wasn't the origin of it. But the "picnic" one is really... um, perhaps "stretching it" wouldn't be the best choice of words under the circumstances... er, bizarre.

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

top 5 favorite denominations within major religions

[sabotabby]

1. Unitarian Universalism
2. Sufism
3. Liberation Theology
4. Juche (If you accept the claim that Marxism is a religion, that is.)
5. Digambara

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

Does Jainism count as a major religion?

[sabotabby]

Well, it should.

because i can

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

top five categories for top five lists.

Re: because i can

[sabotabby]

10 e-points to anyone who answers these. It's a meta-meme!

1. Things to stick on top of your cat while it's sleeping
2. Demo slogans
3. Semi-obscure Soviet bureaucrats
4. Chinatowns
5. Bad mental images involving right-wing pundits

Re: because i can

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

There's already a website for #1. You prolly knew that already though.

In that spirit:
1. a baby
2. 17(?) pizza boxes
3. laundry
4. breakfast
5. a laptop

That's all i got.

Re: because i can

[sabotabby]

Hence the reference.

(I think #4 is Photoshopped, by the way.)

[marinwood.livejournal.com]

Five useful things to do with zombies.

[sabotabby]

1. Use them to clear landmines in Afghanistan.
2. Worship them as your personal saviour.
3. Two words: Target practice.
4. Extras in zombie movies.
5. U.S. Presidential candidates...oh, wait. You said useful.