A Few of My Favourite Things doesn’t appreciate people who don’t appreciate a good cultural reference.
1. My favourite action movie star/animal stomach extract used to make cheese: Jeremy Rennet…
2. My favourite young actress/way of experiencing SFF fandom: Miranda Cosplay
3. My favourite Elton John song about a French pastry: “Beignet and the Jets…”
4. My favourite Happy Days spinoff that made a lot of money: Joanie Loves Cha-ching!
5. My favourite hockey goaltender turned politician/method of washing clothes: Ken Dryclean…
6. My favourite musical about cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels: Ruminantie Mame…
7. My favourite Stone Temple Pilots ditty about somebody who dies without a will: “Intestate Love Song…”
8. My favourite revisionist fairy tale about a Jewish delicacy: The Blintzes Bride…
9. My favourite Christmas song by Sweet: Ballroom Blitzen…
10. My favourite way to view images on my computer/actor: IrfanView Khan…
11. My favourite computer game about a Prussian leader who stole vehicles: Grand Theft Otto…
12. My favourite silent film comedian/way of stripping paint: Ben Turpintine…
13. My favourite source of energy/fair maiden in need of aid: a Hoover damsel in distress…
14. My favourite praise for a Toronto Mayor: John Laudatory…
15. My favourite planetary metaphor/sultry songstress: Mother Eartha Kitt…
16. My favourite American holiday about a Canadian specialty foods line: President’s Choice Day…
17. My favourite Broadway performer on the surface: Ben Veneer…
18. My favourite WWII movie about a Toronto mayor, a baseball manager and a female singer: Tory! Torre! Tori!
19. My fave rave for an eternal youth: Peter Paean…
20. My favourite Kurt Vonnegut book about an early Canadian explorer: Breakfast of Champlains…
21. My favourite Ted Nugent song about a cartoon psychiatrist: Dr. Katz Scratch Fever…
22. My favourite classic computer game that requires iffy deductions to win: The Seventh Guessed…
23. My favourite TV detective series that took place in Illinois: Magnum, PI of Champaign…
24. My favourite young actor who drinks maybe a little more than he should: Toper Grace…
25. My favourite French philosopher/form of humour: Jean-Paul Satire…
26. My favourite Sherlock Holmes character/railing: Inspector Balustrade…
27. My favourite Rolling Stones song about a player for a specific baseball team: “Sympathy for the Devil Rays…”
28. My favourite Hollywood director/legal documents: Herb Writs…
29. My favourite location determinants/place to sit: latitude and chaise longitude…
30. My favourite documentary filmmaker/dominant animal: Alan King of the jungle…
31. My favourite trash brought in on the tide/science fiction cartoon: flotsam and Jetsons…
A Few of My Favourite Things thought it had the right of way this month…
1. My favourite German philosopher/Romanian gymnast: Friedrich Wilhelm Comaneci…
2. My favourite TV detective/pop band: Columbony M…
3. My favourite Dirty Harry movie that takes place entirely on a rainy day: Sodden Impact…
4. My favourite fictional spy/SM play: Bondage, James Bondage…
5. My favourite Canadian author of children’s stories: Eh Eh Milne…
6. My favourite Roy Orbison song about our social masks: “Only the Phony…”
7. My favourite Tom Hanks role/feline Internet meme: Forrest Grumpy Cat…
8. My favourite rock band/teatime snack: The Rolling Scones…
9. My favourite Sleepy Hollow character/Yiddish word for horseradish: Ichabod Chrain…
10. My favourite poison gas/wealthy American family/African ecosystem: Sarin Getty…
11. My favourite fashion model/Ecuadorean capital/bloodsucker: Kate Moss Quito…
12. My favourite Weavers/Bruce Cockburn lyric: “If I had a hammer, some son of a bitch would die!”
13. My favourite pet/semi-precious stone: lapdog lazuli…
14. My favourite path to enlightenment/economic indicator: the Tao Jones Industrial Average…
15. My favourite folk music/soda: roots beer…
16. My favourite feature-length cartoon about the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere: Allegro non Troposphere…
17. My favourite airplane part/book about obfuscatory nonsense: Aileron Bullshit…
18. My favourite Israeli city in which to hold naked services to mourn the dead: Bare Shiva…
19. My favourite Queens of the Stone Age rocker/tribute: Josh Hommage…
20. My favourite Sinatra lyric about an ancient astronomer/mathematician: “Ptolemy, why not take Ptolemy?”
21. My favourite Shangri-Las song about the wealthiest donor to a politician: “The Leader of the PAC…”
22. My favourite Beatles song about a sacred Hindu book: “While My Bhagavad Gita Gently Weeps…”
23. My favourite comic strip/suit fabric: For Better or Worsted…
24. My favourite rock band/hairstyle: Motley Crewcut…
25. My favourite Batman character based on Greek mythology: Commissioner Gorgon…
26. My favourite TV series about a place where bad people are killed: Reprobates’ Motel…
27. My favourite self-referential orchestra conductor: Zubin Meta…
28. My favourite Hollywood actor/retro warning that you’re annoying me: “You’re Tom Cruisin’ for a bruisin’…”
29. My favourite animation technique/soul singer: Ray Tracing Charles…
30. My favourite anti-robot freedom fighter’s favourite candy: Kyle Reese’s Pieces…
31. My favourite moody professional road racing cyclist: Petulance Armstrong…