This month, A Few of My Favourite Things would like to thank the academy...
1. My favourite polite request to a hairdresser: "S'il vous plait my hair?"
2. My favourite environment in which to take a sedative: Ambien lighting...
3. My favourite classic sitcom couple who put me to sleep: Fred and Ether Mertz...
4. My favourite human embodiment of good and evil/children's game: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and go seek...
5. My favourite Joss Whedon series about a demon hunter in civilian clothes: Mufti the Vampire Slayer...
6. My favourite Australian post-apocalyptic film/Swedish actor: Mad Max von Sydow...
7. My favourite computer programme that ensures I won't have to read Greek epic sagas: an Iliad blocker...
8. My favourite French film movement about the homeless: the Nouvelle Vagrant...
9. My favourite Puccini aria about a Japanese car: "Nissan Dorma..."
10. My favourite Puccini aria about a Dr. Strange villain: "Nessun Dormammu..."
11. My favourite Shakespearean play about different words for an Egyptian leader: Antonym and Cleopatra...
12. My favourite science fiction author/sweater: Pat Cardigan...
13. My favourite TV show about overly dramatic west coast lawyers: LA Hoopla...
14.My favourite movie series about beekeepers taking over the world: Planet of the Apians...
15. My favourite Biblical story about the star of Catch 22: Noah's Arkin...
16. My favouite Donovan song about a laid back strings player: "Mellow Cello..."
17. My favourite cheesy horror movie about an invasion of relatives: Empire of the Aunts...
18. My favourite country singer/Illinois city: Keith Urbana...
19. My favourite technique for making films in Paris: Mise en Seine...
20. My favourite Dave Clarke Five hit about a garden: "Gladiola All Over..."
21. My favourite Rod Stewart song about the birth of Jesus: "The Gift of the Maggie Mae..."
22. My favourite state of poverty/alcoholic beverage: serfdom Perignon...
23. My favourite Fantastic Four actress/pasta: Jessica Elbow macaroni...
24. My favourite nonsense song about insects: "Cicada Da Da..."
25. My favourite method of communicating with a crowd/When Harry Met Sally actress: Megaphone Ryan...
26. My favourite documentary about petty annoyances in war: Band of Bothers...
27. My favourite Marvel hero/form of extreme wrestling: a Luke Cage match...
28. My favourite Biblical advice/visual social media phenomenon: "Man, know thy selfie..."
29. My favourite professional baseball manager/overseas factory for a native company: Branch Plant Rickey...
30. My favrouite environmental hazard/Persian Gulf Monarchy: acid Bahrain...
31. My favrouite BGs song about a fragrant ever-green herb: "Chive Talkin'"...
A Few of My Favourite Things knows where it dances. Where do you dance?
1. My favourite female novelist/southern state capital: Jane Austin, Texas...
2. My favourite Sidney James film about druggists: Apothecarry on Dispensing...
3. My favourite American song about a former wrestler's favourite auto route: "Jesse Ventura Highway..."
4. My favourite flaky science fiction series: The Outre Limits...
5. My favourite Beatles song about a French philosopher: "Ticket to Derrida"
6. My favourite cosmologist/progressive rock band: Stephen Hawkwind...
7. My favourite Star Trek actor/ingredient in pesto: Chris Pine nut...
8. My favourite Taxi actor/job application component: Curriculum Danny de Vitae...
9. My favourite comedy film about a billionaire investor: Carl Heaven Icahn Wait...
10. My favourite Broadway musical about achieving enlightenment: West Side Satori...
11. My favourite nursery rhyme/side dish: Old King Cole Slaw...
12. My favourite Michael Caine movie/foundational document on human freedom: Get Magna Carter...
13. My favourite singer/dancer/provocatrice/1990s sitcom: Madonna About You...
14. My favourite Indiana city/food served at five star restaurants: Terre Haute cuisine...
15. My favourite Genesis album about an infection caused by a roundworm: A Trichinosis of the Tail...
16. My favourite Grace Jones song about Poles, Czechs and Russians having to dance: "Slav to the Rhythm..."
17. My favourite Supertramp song about circumcision: "Bloody Well Rite.."
18. My favourite CCR song about a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne travelling by water: "Roland on the River..."
19. My favourite Diana Krall song about making friends and influencing people: "Norman Vincent Peale Me a Grape..."
20. My favourite fashion designer/aid in arranging flowers: Perry Trellis...
21. My favourite heavyweight boxer/Indonesian island vacation spot: Muhammad Bali...
22. My favourite TVO movie host/kiln for drying hops: Elwy Oast...
23. My favourite oddball pop star: Eccentric Astley...
24. My favourite novel about a trip through hell set to a classical music tempo: Andante's Inferno...
25. My favourite Led Zeppelin album about a gay bullfighter: In Through the Out Matador...
26. My favourite African nation/American news anchor: Sudan Rather...
27. My favourite form of exercise/upscale store: Sex Fifth Avenue...
28. My favourite big top comedian who incorporates electronics into his act: a circuits clown...
29. My favourite 1940s cinematic movement shot on the longest river in France: film Loire...
30. My favourite American Idol host/form of jury duty: Ryan Sequester...
31. My favourite sports slogan/Beatles song: "Win one for the 'Day Tripper...'"