A Few of My Favourite Things doesn’t like the look of that smell…
1. My favourite Samuel Beckett play about the actor playing Wonder Woman: Waiting for Gal Gadot…
2. My favourite memento of a hard car to find: rara Avis…
3. My favourite French film movement/German opera composer: the Nouvelle Wagner…
4. My favourite cartoon about an evil Jedi and his dog: Kylo Ren and Stimpy…
5. My favourite 60s novelty song singer/dinosaur: Sheb Woolly Mammoth…
6. My favourite CBC show host/bacteria that exists naturally in the body: George Acidophilus…
7. My favourite Italian actor/Battlestar Galactica Captain: Sophia Lorne Greene…
8. My favourite wilds and crazy actor: Billy Zany…
9. My favourite pet/children’s author: Spaniel Handler…
10. My favourite Temptations song/stage of insect development: “Pupa was a Rolling Stone…”
11. My favourite musical notation/character on Cheers: Clef Clavin…
12. My favourite method of prognostication/actor on Frasier: Jane Tea Leeves…
13. My favourite dessert/North American explorer: creme Etienne Brule…
14. My favourite French exclamation/Emmy Award winning actor: Voila Davis…
15. My favourite Twilight Zone episode about a White House sex scandal: “The Monsters are Due on Marla Maples Street…”
16. My favourite Emile Zola work about the Japanese Mafia: J’accuza…
17. My favourite 60’s crooner/winemaker: Bobby Vintner…
18. My favourite female comedian/way of being angry: Lucille Ballistic…
19. My favourite pop star who is nobody else’s favourite pop star: Pariah Carey…
20. My favourite household pet/The Usual Suspects character: Gerbil Kimt…
21. My favourite Blazing Saddles actor/way of putting people down: Cleavon Belittle…
22. My favourite French Prime Minister with chutzpah: Charles de Gall…
23. My favourite electronic musician/Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character: The Zaphod Twin…
24. My favourite movie named for a body of water named for an oddly coloured vegetable: Blue Legume…
25. My favourite Bob Dylan song about revolutionary spices: “The Thymes, They Are a’Changin'”…
26. My favourite George Harrison song about the tragedy of brevity: “Isn’t it a Pithy?”
27. My favourite way of adjudicating a dispute/Canadian environmentalist: Fairly Mowat…
28. My favourite order Ephemeroptera aquatic insect/way of celebrating workers: a Mayfly Day parade…
29. My favourite white rap band/BFF: the Bestie Boys…
30. My favourite shout from the crow’s nest about a gardening implement: “Land hoe!”
31. My favourite Tracy/Hepburn movie about an ancient Assyrian king: Adam’s Sennacherib…
Oh, it may be a Few of My Favourite Things this month. But for how long? For. How. Long?
1. My favourite agile Guys and Dolls character: Nathan Adroit…
2. My favourite married musical couple featuring a luxurious fabric: The Captain and Chenille…
3. My favourite accommodating female singer: Mary J. O’Blige…
4. My favourite jazz pianist with a variety of deep voices: Count Bassi…
5. My favourite punk band with colds: The Violent Phlegms…
6. My favourite god of the oceans/Mad Magazine artist: Poseidon Martin…
7. My favourite Brit lit about a family of shrubs: The Forsythia Saga…
8. My favourite science fiction writer/way to kick up a fuss: Rudy Ruckus…
9. My favourite 60s sitcom about a magical movie reviewer: I Dream of Gene Shalit…
10. My favourite Mike Oldfield album about totally rad women: Tubular Belles…
11. My favourite Cuban revolutionary author/cocktail made with gin and vermouth: Jose Martini…
12. My favourite fashion model/TV science series: Kate Cosmoss…
13. My favourite American judge/Arkady Renko novel: Gorsuch Park…
14. My favourite puzzle/late night talk show host: Conundrum O’Brien…
15. My favourite place to live in the woods/jazz singer and bandleader: Cabin Calloway…
16. My favourite way to express pain/Wedding Crashers actor: Wince Vaughan…
17. My favourite children’s book about a monkey who directs sci fi films: Curious George Lucas…
18. My favourite musical about a Jewish baseball player: Fielder on the Roof…
19. My favourite film about the athletic family of a veterinarian author: Herriots of Fire…
20. My favourite suspense film about the breakdown of social order: Anomie of the State…
21. My favourite curse about a renowned, if ornery, inventor: Thomas Edison of a bitch!
22. My favourite comedian/the emotional reaction he inspires: Eugene Levity…
23. My favourite vegetable/supermodel: Taro Reid…
24. My favourite John Irving novel about a field covering: The World According to Tarp…
25. My favourite sex comedy based on a Jack London novel: Booty Call of the Wild…
26. My favourite Star Wars villain/person who uses technology that reduces the harmful effects of smoking: Darth Vaper…
27. My favourite Russian cosmonaut/form of visual humour: Yuri Sight Gagarin…
28. My favourite Annie Hall phrase/star of Tarnished Lady: Tallulah Di Dah Bankhead…
29. My favourite place to get a smoked meat sandwich/world religious leader: the Deli Lama…
30. My favourite insect/first computer programmer: Cicada Lovelace…
31. My favourite religious holiday/Westworld actor: Yule Brynner…