Top five... Bottom five?

[fajrdrako]

Okay, because I've been writing and I feel like rewarding myself, it's meme time. Got this one from fandom_me:

Comment with a subject for a top 5 (ships, songs, TV shows, etc.) you would like to see me answer. Feel free to ask more than one!

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[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Top five places to eat in Ottawa.

Top five vacations(holidays) you've taken.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, good ones!

Top five places to eat in Ottawa. - i.e., my favourite places

1. The Colonnade, on Gilmour at O'Connor. Best pizza in town.
   
2. Bento Sushi on Rideau
   
3. Ben Ben on Somerset (they have duck congee that I adore)
   
4. Daly's at the Westin - haven't been there in years, but I have good memories of it
   
5. Flipper's, at Bank and Third

And I suppose I can squeak in a tip of the hat to the Green Door on Main Street, which loses points for not having a lot of new and different dishes all the time, but which does scrumptious vegetables.

Top five vacations(holidays) you've taken.

1. Orkney. An amazing, amazing place for a hundred reasons. Beyond all imagining.
   
2. Malta
   
3. Cornwall
   
4. Pointe-au-Baril on Georgian Bay
   
5. Venice, for all the traditional reasons

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Five favorite Shakespeare plays. Hey, it's almost his birthday, after all. ;)

Also, five favorite Plantagenets.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's almost his birthday, after all. ;)

And a huge happy birthday to him!

Five favorite Shakespeare plays

1. Hamlet
   
2. Much Ado About Nothing
   
3. Henry V
   
4. Antony and Cleopatra
   
5. The Merchant of Venice

This list is subject to change according to whim at any moment. And, occasionally, subject to change by seeing a new and good production that changes my entire thinking about that play.

five favorite Plantagenets (I love it, I love it)

1. Isabella of Jerusalem (granddaughter of Fulk and Melissande)
   
2. Henry II of England
   
3. Richard I of England
   
4. Geoffrey, Bishop-Elect of York (a.k.a. Geoffrey Ftizroy)
   
5. Edward IV

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Haha Top five DW/TW quotes (or moments).

Five favourite animals!

[trialia]

Flavours of ice-cream, and periods of history!

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

5 favourite acronyms

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Top five DW/TW quotes (or moments) (Oooh - how to restrict this to only five?)

1. From Doctor Who 3x10, "Blink":

   Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
   Sally: Started well, that sentence.
   Doctor: It got away from me, yeah.

   
   
2. From Doctor Who "The Voyage of the Damned":

   I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below.

   
   
3. The ending of Doctor Who 2x13 "Doomsday".
   
4. From Torchwood 2x01, "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang":

   Gwen: You left us, Jack!
   Jack: (sighs) I know. I'm sorry.
   Gwen: We knew nothing, Jack!
   Toshiko: Where were you?
   Jack: I found my doctor.
   Owen: Did he fix you?
   Jack: What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection.
   Ianto: Are you going back to him?
   Jack: I came back for you. All of you.

   
   
5. From Torchwood 2x13 "Exit Wounds":

   John: You didn't struggle when I buried you. Like you were allowing it.
   Jack: It was my penance.

~ ~ ~

Five Favourite Animals

1. Dogs
2. Pandas
3. Budgies
4. Tigers
5. Pterodactyls

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Flavours of Ice Cream

In all cases, I prefer the kind of ice cream that is very creamy and not very sweet. I prefer it without fruit and without chocolate.

1. Vanilla
   
2. Butterscotch
   
3. Pralines'n'cream
   
4. Maple walnut
   
5. Butter pecan

Periods of History

1. The Twelfth-century Renaissance
   
2. The Italian Renaissance
   
3. The late Roman Republic (i.e., the era of Julius Caesar)
   
4. The seventh century
   
5. The period from the French Revolution to the English Regency

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

5 favourite acronyms

Ooh, you don't make it easy, do you? Well done!

1. B.C., because its use is fading, and I like its historiography.
   
2. D.V., "Deo volente", "God willing". I use it like 'touch wood".
   
3. BBC, because I like their programmes. (Ditto CBC, especially CBC radio.)
   
4. OSFS, the Ottawa Science Fiction Society - a group of which I've been a member for several decades. I like the acronym because when I first met up with OSFS members, I had a lot of trouble, for some reason, remembering what it stood for and how to say it. (It's oss-fiss.) This amuses me.
   
5. # S.H.I.E.L.D. (originally Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law Enforcement Division; later Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate), from the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel comics. (See also U.N.C.L.E.)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Ships! The floating kind. :)

Flowers.

(Shall I pop over tomorrow? I have my Book to work on, and also we could go for a short hop outside?)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ships! The floating kind. :)

1. HMS Idefatigable
   
2. The Golden Hind
   
3. The African Queen
   
4. HMS Victory
   
5. the little leather curragh St. Brendan used to cross the Atlantic

Flowers

1. Iris (http://www.ancientrootsresearch.com/Hap-I/Chivalry-iris.jpg) - this particular iris picture, to my delight, is called the "chivalry iris".
   
2. Trillium (http://160.114.99.91/astrojan/flowers/1/trillium.jpg)
   
3. Lilac (http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/images/lilacs_overview.jpg) (especially cherry lilac (http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Images/Brklyn/Botanic/Lilac_5409.jpg))
   
4. Periwinkle (http://consejo.bz/belize/images/bushmed/periwinkle.jpg)
   
5. Plumbago (ttp://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/60397368_dfb69cc7ab.jpg?v=0)

I'd love to see you anytime - and to hop outside - and practise crutching a little maybe. Did you mean Friday or Saturday? Today (Friday) Beulah is coming over about 4 for a Buffy session.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sorry, the plumbago link didn't work.

Try here (http://www.bashamlandscape.com/images/plumbago_big.jpg).

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I meant Friday, so shall I come around 6?

Or is Saturday better?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Saturday's better, if you have the chance on Saturday.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I think I can, yes. See you then!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Excellent!