Yes, that's right. I want to know your best six. Best 6 things that ever happened to you, best 6 things you ate, best 6 girlfriends, whatever.

My list is a combination of my all time best 6
1. Best experience: Being pregnant 6th month
2. Best living arrangement: With friend in basement of his mother's house. I was too afraid to eat their food, so I ate leftover pizza from the basement fridge every night.
3. Best buy: Red strapless top for $6 at Sears on sale. Wore it for 3 years and looked stunning in it every time.
4. Best gift: Ring thefted from a car given to me by ex boyfriend when I was 14.
5. Best year: 1998
6. Best friend: My brother

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Mediocrity at its most average.

How about this?

Most important six records I ever bought...

1.) sometime in the mid 1980s - O.M.D. "Architecture and Morality." First non-ultra-mainstream record I ever bought. Still one of my favorite "synthpop" records.

2.) 1987 - The Beatles "Abbey Road." I had never previously realized that an entire friggin' album could be this good.

3.) 1988 - R.E.M. "Eponymous." I bought this tape on a friend's recommendation and listened to it 4 times in a row that night. Changed my life.

4.) 1992 - R.E.M. "Automatic For The People." I bought this at a particularly dark time in my life and listened to it for damn near the entire fall of 1992. Saved my life.

5.) 1993 - The Replacements "Tim." Bought it my first day of college. It quickly became my favorite album of all time. Westerberg became my biggest songwriting influence, save maybe Syd Barrett, Billy Bragg and/or Scott Miller.

6.) 1997 - Beat Happening "Jamboree." My first band had split acromoniously. My musicianship was rudimentary at best and my voice can best be described as a "miserable whine." I was about to hang it up. Then I discovered what joy these three folks can create with thoroughly untrained voices, a barely-in-tune guitar and a ricketty drum kit. It's my inspiration during those freezing winter nights in my basement, flailing away at that drum kit I still can't play, recording it all on my 4-track. It's all rock and roll to me...

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I has a flavor!

Thank you, John Cusack.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

1) Best class in uni: German History. My prof knew her shit and knew how to explain it.

2) Best author: Irvine Welsh.

3) Best colour: Black. (and before you get after me about how black isn't a colour, go fuck yourself).

4) Best movie: Empire Records

5) Best snack food: Broccoli and cauliflower

6) Best kids cartoon: SpongeBob SquarePants

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

1. Best Movie: Once Upon a Time in America
2. Best Record: Chrono Cross Soundtrack
3. Best Type of Cuisine: Mexican
4. Best Comic: Maus
5. Best Sport: Curling
6. Best Sex: Chicka's mom

For my money, the White Sox are the best sox-themed team in baseball history, with the Red Sox coming in second or third. Probably second.

Best sax might be the C-melody saxophone, since it can be played from sheet music written for the guitar and piano.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

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[*]Best Band: Hedningarna, but only when they have the Finnish singers.
[*]Best Animal: Ducks, because they're extremely cute and extremely tasty.
[*]Best Way to Relax: A Korean-style sauna bath house.
[*]Best Syndicated Comic: Bloom County. I'd say it's the best without the "syndicated" qualification, but there are too many web comics out there for me to be sure. It's the best I know of offhand, anyway.
[*]Best Written Language: Korean, which is completely phonetic, and where the shape of the elements in the letters are based on the shape your mouth is in when you make that sound.
[*]Best Magazine: The Economist, by a mile.
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Perhaps more later.

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"Old" is the old new.