What's Your Top 10 List?

[Dinger]

Here's mine:


My favorite ways to relax on my day off:

10. Cook
9. Exercise
8. Play catch with our dog Zippy
7. Write in my journal
6. Take pictures and post them wherever
5. Have a cup of tea and watch the fire in the fireplace (*On a cold day)
4. Go to Green Bay with my Packer buddy (ala Lucy & Ethel in Hollywood)
3. Read
2. Watch a movie, probably with an outdoor/survival theme
1. Sleep in!

[XemaSab]

1. 10 Best Birds EVER

1. California Condor
2. Greater Sandplover
3. Ross' Gull
4. Lark Sparrow
5. Black Skimmer
6. Great Gray Owl
7. Purple Gallinule
8. Evening Grosbeak
9. Painted Bunting
10. Cape May Warbler

[taterguy]

15. No pelicans? Your list sucks

[XemaSab]

16. I had both pelicans when I was fairly young and ignorant

This is a subjective list. :P

[begin_within]

2. 10 best parks

1. Yosemite National Park
2. Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Parks
3. Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
4. Grand Canyon National Park
5. Waianapanapa State Park
6. Golden Gate Park
7. Plitvice Lakes National Park
8. Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
9. Bryce Canyon National Park
10. Mount Rainier National Park

[PBS Poll-435]

3. Vacation Places!

1. S. Lake Tahoe, CA/NV
2. Scottsdale, AZ
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Portland/Astoria/Gold Beach/Coos Bay, OR
5. Shreveport/Bossier City, LA
6. Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY
7. Virginia Beach, VA
8. DC
9. San Diego/La Jolla, CA
10. My back yard.

[jobycom]

5. Oh, good idea. I think I'll make my own.

First--Shreveport? Wow, that place most have changed a lot since I used to drive through there. :) )

1-- Disneyworld (I like corny manmade events, and it doesn't get cornier or phonier than the World)
2-- Biloxi, MS (In addition to being "back home" for me, I love the beach and the casinos.
3-- Santa Fe, NM and the Torquouse Trail.
4-- San Antonio, TX (The Riverwalk, Fiesta Texas, Seaworld, the missions, and nearby New Braunfels/Gruene. It's an underappreciated tourism mecca.)
5-- New Orleans, LA
6-- Gulf Shores, AL to Orange Beach, FL
7-- The Grand Canyon.
8-- Paris. It's been a couple decades, but you never forget turning 20 in Paris.
9-- DC. Haven't been there enough.
10- The Davis Mountains/Indian Lodge, TX. Hard to explain the attraction unless you've been there.

[PBS Poll-435]

6. Great choices!

Love NoLa, Santa Fe, and anywhere in Arizona is fine by me. Spent a lot of my life there and even though the politics suck, basically, can't get enough cactus or "dry" heat. :D

And Shreveport is still, um, Shreveport. But it is 20 miles over the border and NOT Texas. :P

[jobycom]

7. I haven't been through there since the gambling stuff started.

My sister was born there, and when I lived in Dallas I drove through it regularly on my way back to Mississippi. Back then it was just a pothole on the interstate. Once, literally--we were driving through and part of the interstate was closed because of a sinkhole. The other knowledge I have of it is that a high school friend of mine was murdered there after surviving the first Iraq war, and that the most racist ear doctor I've ever met hated his internship there.

I thought of including Dallas on my list, but really that would have just been because of Snuffers cheddar fries. And the State Fair. And Fort Worth, which isn't part of Dallas. :)

[TZ]

9. OOh. Scottsdale is nice isn't it?

I fell in love with it earlier this year. I'm now very glad my Mayo doc left MN for AZ- I now have a real good reason to go every year.

[jobycom]

4. Ten favorite websites to waste a day on while becoming more informed.

1--DU (Yeah, I'm sucking up)
2--Cnet.com (for technology reviews and news)
3--Bankrate.com (for bank and financial issues, like finding best mortgages, credit card rates, banks, etc.)
4--Rottentomatoes.com (for upcoming movies and random movie stuff)
5--IMDB.com (for looking up cast info on any movie. Often used in conjunction with Rottentomatoes.com, and sometimes DU)
6--Snopes.com (To keep from looking like an idiot on DU or Facebook).
7--Facebook.com (because I really do want to know about my first girlfriend's new husband's dumb-ass kids)
8--Cooking.com (for recipes and gadgets I need to learn to not live without).
9--Audible.com (Commercial site, but it's still fun to read reviews and check out audiobook lists for future reference)
10-Auschron.com (Austin chronicle. Offbeat local news, upcoming music and theater, useful reviews on local food and drink and stuff. As quirky as Austin).

[TZ]

10. I don't see Rush.com on there.

Shame shame....:P

[jobycom]

11. Oh, I should have worded that better.

I meant waste my day in a GOOD way. :)

[mvd]

8. I love lists!

Might make more later. Here's one:

My top 10 music crushes right now -


1. Alison Sudol (of A Fine Frenzy)
2. Matisse
3. Andrea Corr
4. Michelle Branch
5. Juliet Simms (of Automatic Loveletter)
6. Joanna Pacitti
7. Bree Sharp
8. Leslie Mills
9. Cassadee Pope (of Hey Monday)
10. Z Berg (of The Like)

[jobycom]

12. Hmmm....

1-- Joan Osborne
2-- Chrissie Amphlett (Divinyls--yeah, way back, but she's still hot in every way you can define it).
3-- Alicia Keys
4-- Tish Hinojosa
5-- Vanessa Williams
6-- Mary J Blige
7-- Joss Stone (She's not quite there yet musically, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBH8o8XXnVM )
8-- Martina McBride (One of the top voices in all of music, and barely known outside of country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKlOYWwgRo8
9-- Rihanna
10- Toni Price (she's a local singer in Austin).

Works well enough for a list. I thought about Katie Perry, but had to admit that that was mustly lust. :)

[mvd]

19. Alicia Keys is very pretty.. so are Vanessa and Tish

Katy is very close to the top ten I posted - some days she even makes it. :hi:

[blue_onyx]

14. Michelle

Did you hear the news on Michelle's new CD? Well, if you didn't, she's releasing a 6 song EP called "Everything Comes and Goes." She will also release a new CD called "Different Kind of Country." There's no release dates yet but the EP is suppose to come out this summer.

http://www.modbee.com/2010/07/02/1235616/singer-songwriter-michelle-branch.html#ixzz0tL3arpWt

Is Joanna still making music? I haven't heard about her since she got kicked off American Idol.

[mvd]

18. Yes, I saw that. Good news!

In my opinion, that would make things worth the wait.

Joanna is finishing up an album - should be out this year. :hi:

[SoxFan]

13. My Top Ten

10. Milly's Tavern "Red Tail Ale"

9. The air traffic control scene from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

8. Apple Cider

7. Fred Lynn

6. Uncle Gaylord's

5. Thirteen vuvuzelas vuvuzeling

4. A Tommy Keene EP from the mid 1980s

3. Wallis Sands State Park

2. Chum

1. The Kansas City Monarchs

[Odin2005]

17. Top 10 Craziest Languages

10. Arabic (and all the Semitic Languages more generally)
9. Abkhaz (consonants up the wazoo, but only 2 vovels)
8. English (that's right, English; dummy "do", complicated auxiliary verb system, phrasal verbs)
7. Cherokee (no labial consonants, polysythetic to hell!)
6. French (Romance language that is becoming polysythetic)
5. Chinese (Only major language with topic-comment syntax)
4. Basque (Ergative morphosyntax in Europe!?!)
3. !Xhoo (way too many click consonants!)
2. Montana Salish (many big words with no vowels!)
1. Navajo (the most insanely complex polysythetic morphology I have ever seen)

[rucky]

20. The Ten Best Top-10 Lists

10. Food
9. Movies
8. Books
7. Bands
6. Celebrities
5. Athletes
4. Teams
3. Writers
2. Vacations
1. Top 10 Lists

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. vacations

no particular order:

Europe
Australia
Alaska
Rockies
China
Russia
Memphis
Austin
Baja
Medicine Hat

[Heidi]

21. My top 10+ retro (and retro-esque) things:

1. Olivetti Valentine manual typewriter, made in 1969 and designed by Ettore Sottsass.
2. El Casco desktop office accessories (stapler, pencil sharpener, etc.)
3. Converse All-Stars
4. Polaroid Colorpack II camera (uses 100 series packfilm, yields 8.5 x 10.5 cm photos)
5. Quilts
6. Kitchenaid Artisan series countertop appliances (tangerine)
7. Handmade paper (Amalfi)
8. Tom Ford eyewear
9. Mason jars
10. Dr Bronners All-in-One Magic Soap (peppermint. I'm a relatively new fan.)
11. Green Stabilo lead pencils with white eraser (HB 2.5)
12. Dymo original embossing labelmaker
13. Glass negatives
14. Pulp novels (romance and western, 1930s to 1960)
15. SIBIR Oldtimer fridge
16. Memory Vinyl CDs (they look like 45 rpm records)
17. Bobby pins
18. Opera gloves
19. 70s style bamboo flip flops
20. Oscillating, chrome stand fan