Maybe it's because I'm brilliant. Maybe it's because I'm bored. Maybe it's because I'm half the height of David Letterman. No matter what my reasons may be, I now present to you... The Top Five Everything!!
Top Five Cuisines
1. Italian
2. French
3. Japanese
4. Mexican
5. German
Top Five Signs of Spring in Maine
1. Temperature is a whopping 40 degrees!
2. Snow completely gone by May!
3. Really bad Maine-farmed fruit becomes just bad Maine-farmed fruit.
4. Snow-plow drivers open hot-dog stands
5. More papers due than ever before!
Top Five Awful-Sounding Bowdoin Classes
1. "Environmental Ethics"
2. "The Canonical Cannibal"
3. "Economic Statistics"
4. "Combinatorics and Graph Theory"
5. "Physical Chemistry"
Top Five Snow Activities
1. Sticking your tongue to a flagpole.
2. Sticking your friend's tongue to a flagpole.
3. Killer Snow Angels
4. Snow Catapult Fights
5. Slipping, then pretending to be all cool
because you meant to do that...
Top Five Desserts
1. Chili's Molten Chocolate Cake
2. Banana Split
3. Hot Fudge Sundae
4. Angelfood Cake
5. Muddy Buddies Chex Mix
Top Five Mythological Characters
1. Prometheus
2. Athena
3. Medea
4. Haephestus
5. Tiresias
Top Five High School Classes
1. Chemistry
2. A.P. U.S. History
3. Government
4. American Literature
5. Speech and Debate
Top Five Spanish Words
1. Nosotros
2. Quinientos
3. Ensalada
4. Catorce
5. Yo
Top Five Flowers
1. Iceland poppy
2. Tulip
3. Calla Lily
4. Rose
5. Lily-of-the-valley
Top Five College Time Wasters
1. Mah Jong
2. Checking email obsessively
3. Dungeons and Dragons
4. Trivial Pursuit @ 2am!
5. Updating web page...
Top Five Poets
1. W.B. Yeats
2. T.S. Eliot
3. Ogden Nash
4. John Keats
5. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Top Five Shows I Like
To Watch When I Can't Sleep
1. The Late Show with David Letterman
2. Late Night with Conan O'Brien
3. Insomniac's Music Theatre on VH1
4. George Foreman's Amazing Grill-Cooker Thing!
5. Headline News - "The Get to the Point News"
Top Five Things I Like
To See In My Mailbox
1. Blue "Package Received" Cards
2. Personal Letters
3. Catalogues
4. Bank Statements
5. Anthrax... no, wait...
Top Five Sports
1. Baseball... really!
2. Speed Skating
3. Football
4. Curling
5. Elephant polo.
Top Five Languages
1. English... I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
2. Latin... really!
3. Swahili
4. German
5. Japanese
Top Five Sub-Atomic Particles
1. Electron
2. Neutrino
3. "Strange" quark
4. Proton
5. Anti-quark
Top Five Girl Books
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Jane Eyre
3. Bridget Jones' Diary
4. The Awakening
5. The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road
he he he...
Top Five Appliances
1. Refrigerator
2. Microwave
3. Washing Machine
4. Dishwasher
5. Fax Machine
Top Five French Verb Tenses
1. Present
2. Imparfait
3. Passe' Compose'
4. Futur
5. Passe' Simple
Top Five Frustrating Reads
1. Wuthering Heights
2. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
3. The Tragedy of Puddin'head Wilson
4. The Last Samurai
5. The Metamorphosis
Top Five British-Spelled Words
1. "Travelling"
2. "Mosquitoes"
3. "Flavour"
4. "Aluminium"
5. "Jewellery""
Top Five British-Pronounced Words
1. "Privacy"
2. "Area"
3. "Right"
4. "Leicester"
5. "Tony Blair"
Top Five Starbucks Drinks
1. Caramel Macchiato (sp?)
2. Iced Chai Latte
3. Espresso Frappucino
4. Caffe Mocha
5. Coffee Frappucino
Top Five Magazines
1. The Economist
2. TIME
3. The Atlantic Monthly
4. Lucky
5. Science
Top Five Books You're
Most Likely to See
Me Reading This Month
1. The Metamorphoses
2. Simon Schama's History of Britain, part 1
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. A History of the Kings of Britain
5. Organic Chemistry
Top Five Harry Potter Characters
1. Snape!
2. Ron
3. Lupin
4. McGonagall
5. Fred and George...
Ok, that's six... shut up...
Top Five Fast-Food Joints
1. In-n-Out
2. Carl's Jr.
3. Taco Bell
4. Arby's
5. Burger King
Top Five Newscasters
1. Carl Cameron!
2. Jon Stewart!
3. Brian Williams
4. Bill O'Reilly... if you can
count him as a newscaster...
5. Jim Lehr-ah!
Top Five Foreign Countries
1. England
2. Switzerland
3. Italy
4. The Czech Republic
5. Japan
Top Five Philosophers
1. Voltaire
2. Zeno
3. Pascal
4. Machiavelli
5. Erasmus
Top Five Fruits
1. Banana
2. Pear
3. Pineapple
4. Honeydew Melon
5. Strawberry
Top Five Elements
1. Cesium!!
2. Oxygen
3. Manganese
4. Polonium
5. Fluorine
Top Five Rejected Elements
1. Antipathy
2. Bosporus
3. Moron
4. Antigone
5. Belgium
Top Five High School Reading Books
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Scarlet Letter
3. Julius Caesar
4. The Joy Luck Club
5. The Great Gatsby
Top Five Ice Cream Flavors
1. Rainbow Cream
2. Peanut Butter 'n' Chocolate
3. Daquiri Ice
4. Phish Food
5. Peach
Top Five Animals
1. Parrot
2. Cat
3. Goat
4. Llama
5. Koi
Top Five Books
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. The Innocents Abroad
4. Jane Eyre
5. The Sun Also Rises
Top Five Colors
1. Indigo
2. Green
3. Blue
4. Orange
5. BLOOD RED... BWA HA HAAAA!
Top Five Movies
1. Surf Ninjas!!!
2. Pride and Prejudice (A&E)
3. You've Got Mail
4. Spice World... just kidding.
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Top Five Action Figures I'd Like to See
1. The Janitor-nator!
2. Commando Babysitter!
3. Typhoid-Mary Chef Surprise!
4. HelLibrarian!
5. Queen Elizabeth - Now with Two-Fisted Scepter Action!
Top Five Presidents
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. FDR
4. John Adams
5. Theodore Roosevelt
Top Five Presidents Who
Make Me Laugh
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Calvin Coolidge
4. Andrew Jackson
5. W.
Top Five Soft Drinks
1. Always Coca-Cola!
2. Root Beer
3. Tre Limone
4. Cherry Pepsi
5. 7-Up
Top Five Warm Items of Clothing
1. Sweater
2. Gloves
3. Thermals
4. Full-Body Parka
5. Scarf