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As you can probably see I'm a nooooob to your wonderful forum so have no idea about anyone!

Obviously I've figured out a few names/regulars reading through and can see what kind of magical stuff people are into/whether they're pros or what... but this doesn't really help me in figuring out who is who and what you're all like!

So.. (unless already done and someone can bosh me in the direction the thread is)... I figured you guys could answer the following things I always ask people when I first meet them... it helps me figure out how people tick

1. Top Five Films
2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
4. Tell me a joke...
5. Which is your favourite season and why?
6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
10. Favourite comedian(s)?

Okay, I'll bite..

1. Top Five Films (right now... it changes from day to day)
Miracle Mile
Dead Ringers
My Favourite Year
King Kong
Alien

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
Again... this changes by the day
NoMeansNo
Leatherface
Alice Donut
Naked Raygun
Girls Against Boys

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Starter: Bacon Sandwich
Main course: Bacon Sandwich
Dessert: Bacon Sandwich
I like bacon sandwiches

4. Tell me a joke...
Q: Where do you go to weigh a whale?
A: A Whale Weigh Station!

Q: Where do you go to weigh a pie?
Answer at the bottom of this post

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Summer, when we get one - vitamin D, better mood and all that.

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Paris is the most wonderful place in the cosmos.
I got married in Mauritius though, and that runs a close second.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Food and a movie.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Spend it recklessly

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
I'd do it for free if I could remove his toes first with a rusty corned beef tin lid.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Robin Williams (stand-up)
Mark Thomas
Eddie Izzard
Marty Feldman
Spike Milligan
Emo Phillips
Peter O'Toole (as a comic actor is simply a genius)




















A: Somewhere over the rainbow (think about it!)

1. Top Five Films
Withnail & I
The Devils Rejects
Ron Burgundy - Anchor Man
F is for Fake
The Man who would be King

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
Booker T and the MGs
Elbow
Donny Hathaway
Anthony and the Johnsons
Small Faces

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Anything cooked by Hannibal Lecter

4. Tell me a joke...
What do you get if you cross David Berglas and the writer of Practical Mental Effects?
Annemann-at-any-Number

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Autumn - chilly, but still with a dash of sun

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Soho - nice booze, food and people

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
staying in with whisky and films

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
spend it on loose women, 'trees'. and stuff i don't really need

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
I'd bite his face off for £5000

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Ivor Cutler
Richard Pryor
Recently, Mitch Hedberg
Doug Stanhope
Harry Hill
Billy Connolly
Peter Cook

Fave Films
Shawshank Redemption
Indiana Jones Trilogy (Not the crappy 4th)
Stand By Me


Singers
Frank Sinatra
Franki Valli
Eagles
Stereophonics
Bryan Adams

6TH! Anything from the 60's/motown and rat pack era!

If I were a 3 course meal
Tomato Soup
Lasagna
Some sort of knicker bocker glory

Season
Winter, cos I love cosying up in the house when its cold outside! Plus Christmas and my birthday are in there too!

Place
Dubai

Perfect Evening
Enjoying time with my wife and son

Ten Grand
Save it for my sons future

Tony Blair
On yer bike!

Comedians
Norman Wisdom
Rhod Gilbert
Lee Evans

pcwells wrote:A: Somewhere over the rainbow (think about it!)

That took me a while.

Wow there's a lot of top five films I've not seen so far! This is good news! In fact... Iain... I've seen none of your top 5! I shall have to make note of them and see them...!

Generally, rule of thumb, I will like a person muchly if they mention either Alien or Aliens as a top 5 film! Good choice - although recently had a debate with a bunch of friends over Alien vs Aliens... I personally think Alien should be granted the best - originality wise, but Aliens is a film I'd prefer to watch over Alien due to the awesome lines, Bill Paxtons voice breaking moment and the coolness that is Vasquez

Big thumbs up to the Stereophonics and Sinatra goodness

Pheebs wrote:Big thumbs up to the Stereophonics and Sinatra goodness

I know!

1. Top Five Films

Cool Hand Luke
Godfather Trilogy
Kill Bill Vol.1
Unforgiven
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

(this list subject to total change, every 11.5 minutes, every day for the rest of my life and probably afterwards)

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically

Rolling Stones
White Stripes
Guns N Roses
Leonard Cohen
Johnny Cash

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?

Starter: More bread instead please waiter! (irish genetics)
Main course: Lasagne - To represent my many deep layers
Dessert: Grapefruit - to represent my overriding bitterness destroying all the previous flavours


4. Tell me a joke...
Woman walks into a bar and asks for a Double Entendre..
So the barman gave her one.

Love this joke, it doubles as an intellience test.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Winter. at least in England. cold enough to think straight, wear a fully loaded suit, and the women put their legs away, allowing my otherwise rational mind to escape from falling into their evil trap and ending up totally broke and rebuilding my life from scratch AGAIN!

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Casteljaloux, south of France. Tent, pine forest, massive calm lake, consistent dry heat and sun, total silence. Then on the other side of the lake a tiny wooden bar with a pier over the water to sit in continued total peace, writing or reading, surrounded by a small but noticable number of sober and respectable, skankiness free tanned topless long legged french elven looking angels.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Food and a movie, like everyone else so far, except i'll be more honest and admit that it's food, a movie, and then copious amounts of borderline legal sex before bed.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
I had to think about this one and after a new cheap car id spend the rest, i had to admit to myself, on certain expensive electronic mentalism tools....i gotta get a life.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
...no. Ewww. Plus its unlikely they would be sweet and i only have sweet tastebuds.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Bill Hicks
Sam Kinison
Richard Pryor
Dylan Moran
Bill Bailey
Jimmy Carr

For what it is worth, here are my replies:
1. Top Five Films
I don't watch movies.

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
I don't listen to music.

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Starter: Jumbo prawns in chilli salt and garlic.
Main course: Duck in orange sauce.
Dessert: A nice cheese board, or christmas pudding with all the works.

4. Tell me a joke...
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are camping. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes Watson and asks him what he sees.
Watson: "I see the moon, the stars and some clouds."
Holmes: "As usual Watson you see, but you do not observe. Who stole our bloody tent?"

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Winter. Love the cold, the crispness, and the snow (I spend my winters in Lapland, Finland).

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Nepal, trekking in the Himilayas. Beautiful place, lovely people, slow pace of life, and physically tough.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
A long lingering meal in a beautiful restaurant with superb food and great company.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Pay debts.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
No. Life is too short.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Bill Hicks
Early Ben Elton
Tommy Tiernan
Cathal Costello
Early Billy Connolly
Very early Woody Allen (before he began making movies)

1. Top Five Films

Terminator 2
The Terminator
Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
Saving Private Ryan

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically

Van Halen
RATT
Replicant (my band)
Rough Justice (my other band)
Steel Panther

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?

N/A

4. Tell me a joke...

Ellusionist

5. Which is your favourite season and why?

Summer - duh!

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?

Venice

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...

Angelina Jolie, Helena Bonham-Carter and a video camera

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?

Put it on a horse at 100-1 and win £1,000,000

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?

I think you mean Gordon Brown...

10. Favourite comedian(s)?

Steel Panther
Eddie Izzard
Paul Merton

Interesting questions!

1. Top Five Films
Star Trek (new one!), Local Hero, Batman Begins, Lady in the Water, Lord of the Rings

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
Loreena McKennitt, Runrig, ACDC, Chopin, Within Temptation

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Anything Italian - I love Italian food and am easily pleased!

4. Tell me a joke...
Gordon Brown

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Autumn. I love the colours and those sunny days where you still have to wrap up warm to go for a walk. Lovely.

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Easy...Scotland.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Hmmm...Either, a night of Irish music complete with copious amonts of Guinness or a stroll down Edinburgh's Royal Mile followed by a nice meal and glass of red wine in good company.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Ask my wife for some spending money!

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
If it were £1,000 per toe, I'd think about it.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Ben Elton (stand up), Jasper Carrot (stand up), Tommy Cooper, Laurel & Hardy, Borat

1. Top Five Films
In no particular order:

Blade Runner
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Black Hawk Down
Goodfellas

They're not really my faves (apart from BR); just five films that I like.

2. Top Five Bands/Musicians/Choirs/Orchestras/Whatever-tickles-your-fancy Musically
I don't listen to much music but I like Coldplay and Vangelis, amongst others.

3. If you were a starter, main course and dessert, what would you be and why?
Starter: Onion bhaji because I can't get enough of the stuff.
Main: Lamb madras because I can't get enough of the stuff.
Dessert: Apple crumble because I can't get enough of the stuff.

4. Tell me a joke...
Why did the pervert cross the road? Because he was inside the chicken.

5. Which is your favourite season and why?
Winter. I hate heat. (Unless it's in a curry - see question 3).

6. One of your favourite places you've visited in your life...?
Cornwall is the most beautiful place I have ever visited. Stunning place. It's like a different world there. It is also the place I had the best apple crumble I have ever eaten.

7. Your perfect evening right now would consist of...
Ordering a big Indian takeaway and a few horror DVDs. I'm a romantic type, you know.

8. If you won ten grand, what would you do with it?
Pay off the credit card (about £700) and spend the rest on curry and apple crumble. Oh, and probably put some of it towards a new car.

9. Would you eat Tony Blair's toe skin shavings for £1000? If not, what's your price?
Of course I would. What's the worse that can happen? You vomit. I can live with that for a grand.

10. Favourite comedian(s)?
Jack Dee, Lee Evans, Jo Brand, Billy Connolly, Chris Rock. I'll laugh at anything, me.

Only ONE answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPmL_W96l80

Pheebs wrote:Wow there's a lot of top five films I've not seen so far! This is good news! In fact... Iain... I've seen none of your top 5! I shall have to make note of them and see them...!

You just missed out. Withnail and I was given away with the times at the weekend. Class movie.

Jobasha wrote:

Pheebs wrote:Wow there's a lot of top five films I've not seen so far! This is good news! In fact... Iain... I've seen none of your top 5! I shall have to make note of them and see them...!

You just missed out. Withnail and I was given away with the times at the weekend. Class movie.

Indeed it is. And only £3 at Play. Go get.