A General Favourite Things Questionnaire

So, who wants to play?:wink::biggrin: Thanks to bhone from whom I pinched this!



All Time Favourite Band:

All Time Favourite Singer:

All Time Favourite Songwriter:

All Time Favourite Album:

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band:

All Time Favourite Lyric:

All Time Favourite Book:

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure:

All Time Favourite Motto:

All Time Favourite Vice:

All Time Favourite Biscuit:

 

All Time Favourite Band: Mothers of Invention

All Time Favourite Singer: Roy Harper

All Time Favourite Songwriter: Roy Harper

All Time Favourite Album: Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar Box Set (F.Zappa)

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band: None

All Time Favourite Lyric: Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music....Music is the best! FZ.

All Time Favourite Book: The Naked Lunch, William Burroughs

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure: Full English Breakfast.

All Time Favourite Motto: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny!

All Time Favourite Vice: Rather not say :biggrin:

All Time Favourite Biscuit: Mc Vities Chocolate Digestive

 

I've a feeling there will some synchronicity here...

 

Hmm - multiquote button doesn't seem to work ...

All Time Favourite Band: Be-Bop Deluxe

All Time Favourite Singer: John Martyn

All Time Favourite Songwriter: Roy Harper

All Time Favourite Album: Inside Out (John Martyn)

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band: Don't know any

All Time Favourite Lyric: How does it feel to be the master's right-hand nose

All Time Favourite Book: What I'm Going To Do I Think (L Woiwode)

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure: Taunton Natural Dry Cider

All Time Favourite Motto: In for a penny...

All Time Favourite Vice: Chess-playing

All Time Favourite Biscuit: Bourbon

 

Well - OK maybe it does but not immediately!

:wink::m18::willy_nilly::biggrin:

Bob

 

All Time Favourite Band: AC/DC.

All Time Favourite Singer: Elvis.

All Time Favourite Songwriter: Paul Simon.

All Time Favourite Album: Physical Graffiti.

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band: Whizzkid (covers band).

All Time Favourite Lyric: I Drink, by Mary Gauthier.

All Time Favourite Book: Make your own Electric Guitar, by Melvyn Hiscock.

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure: Paracetamols and fizzy pop!

All Time Favourite Motto: Trust no-one!

All Time Favourite Vice: Redheads.

All Time Favourite Biscuit Plain chocolate Hobnobs.

 

All Time Favourite Band: XTC

All Time Favourite Singer: Kirsty MacColl

All Time Favourite Songwriter: Roy Harper

All Time Favourite Album: I would struggle to pick a favourite Roy or Nick album let alone a single platter from the 1000 or so that I'm familiar with

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band: none, sadly

All Time Favourite Lyric: an entirely random selection, from hundreds of good possibles - Don't be suspicious of Golden Delicious, whatever your granny might say (Ian Dury, one of my all time favourite lyricists)

All Time Favourite Book: another borderline impossible one - so many to choose from - but I'll be perverse and go with 'The Cuckoo's Egg' by Clifford Stoll

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure: take more water with it

All Time Favourite Motto: When eating an elephant take one bite at a time

All Time Favourite Vice: as an atheist, I don't have any

All Time Favourite Biscuit: not allowed them any more, but plain chocolate McVitie's digestives would have won the vote when I was

 

All Time Favourite Band:

Need I say? The Twang, of course
All Time Favourite Singer:
Dusty Springfield

All Time Favourite Songwriter:

Roy Harper, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison

All Time Favourite Album:

Songs of Leonard Cohen

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band:

London...ooh, so many..? Probably The Who.

All Time Favourite Lyric:

Goin Back (Goffin/King), The Stranger Song (L Cohen), The Game (R Harper)

All Time Favourite Book:
Great Expectations, Jane Eyre

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure:
The milk/orange juice/raw egg concoction

All Time Favourite Motto:

Trust in the soul, belief in the heart, faith in the mind

All Time Favourite Vice:
No comment!

All Time Favourite Biscuit

Well, biscuits don't seem to taste like they once did, but probably McVities Digestive

 

FOR ALL TIME, Forever! At this moment!

All Time Favorite Band: Led Zep, Beatles, Talking Heads, Steely Dan

All Time Favorite Singer: Roy, David Byrne, Sting, Joni, Shirley Manson

All Time Favorite Songwriter: Roy, Lennon/McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel, The Duke (Ellington, not Wayne)

All Time Favorite Album: So, by Peter Gabriel (Music) Waiting For The Electricianor Somone Him and Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers, both by The Firesign Theater/Theatre (Comedy/Satire)

All Time Favorite Local (to you) Band: Other than all the Great Blues Musicians who have at some time called Chicago Home (Broonzy, BB KING, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy, Otis Clay....) Probably Aliotta Haynes Jermiah ("Lake Shore Drive" 1976) and Cheap Trick.

All Time Favorite Lyric: Some by all of the above, and me

All Time Favorite Book: Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny, The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov, and Tale of Two Cities by Dickens

All Time Favorite Hangover Cure: I don't really get hungover, so "Sleep" like pd says.

All Time Favorite Motto: "If you're going through hell, just keep going!" (Churchill, also like pd's?). AND "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither!" (Ben Franklin)

All Time Favorite Vice: Gerald R. Ford. You meant vice-presidents, right? Okay, double-entendres are my real vice!

All Time Favorite Biscuit:[/QUOTE] I eat almost every carb known to exist except biscuits. Whole wheat toast, low-fat Triscuits, air-popped popcorn, a peanut-butter cookie or most chocolates, even blueberry muffins. But no muffins (you meant food, right?).

I hope you'll all appreciate I "corrected" the spelling of "Favourite" and not care one iota (or is it upsilon?).

 

The American spelling of words have always seemed strange to me, I suppose if you're brought up with them it becomes normal, word processors in the UK suffer too, trying to get us English to conform to mispelling our Queen's English :biggrin:

 

This DEVOLVING Thread ends here!

Well, it can be upsetting this side of the pond when the eu forces apple to prefer OED to Webster's in various word programs. Noah Webster standardized American (New World) English over 200 years ago for US when GeoIII tried to tax things over here.

Personally, I like the differences. Colloquialisms are even more amazing.

"Herb" is a man's name here, and "Herb" with a silent "H" is something you flavor food with. My Mom uses the OED pronunciation for "Herb" whereas I prefer "Webster's" (except when it comes to spelling "theatre").

 

....and the emphasis should be on the first letter in oregano! :biggrin:

 

"O?"

Again, for emphasis, "O?":biggrin:

 

Ooh, a list. Here goes:

All Time Favourite Band: The Beatles

All Time Favourite Singer: Scott Walker

All Time Favourite Songwriter: Bob Dylan

All Time Favourite Album: That's a tough one. Today I'm going to say 'Tubular Bells'

All Time Favourite Local (to you) Band: Our Krypton Son (http://www.myspace.com/thewacokid79)

All Time Favourite Lyric: Ooof, there are many. How about "All you need is love but all you get is afraid" (Robyn Hitchcock)

All Time Favourite Book: 'Frankenstein Unbound' by Brian Aldiss.

All Time Favourite Hangover Cure: Water & sleep.

All Time Favourite Motto: I'm not sure about this... does this mean something someone else has said, or my own personal motto, which would probably be "get lost" or "I haven't touched it".

All Time Favourite Vice: Pork pies.

All Time Favourite Biscuit: I don't really like sweet stuff, so I'll choose

 

That'll be "flavour", then.
:leaving:

 

Having spent 7 years 'across the pond', I now 'go both ways' :wink: and adjust spelling accordingly. There aren't too many differences to be honest.

 

WAY WAY WAY Across The Pond!

I know. But words are so fun, aren't they? And idioms, ironies, etc. And the way you pronounce Garage and Gaol (I guess most Brits didn't know you adopted our spelling on that one... Hee hee hee... Or did you?)

(Darn: Here I forgot to try the multi-quote button.)

Is WEE STEVE suggesting Flavour Flave's real first name is Herb?:confused1:

 

he goes both ways!:21:

 

Haha! I laughed too, but I didn't want to say anything...each to his own and all.:wink::biggrin: