(((Pingu)))

Ooooo! Toast and marmite in bed!! That would have
to be one of mine too. Thick sliced white with
loads of butter running everywhere!! Heavenly!!

Ok I tried to come up with Monte's top ten dream jobs, but failed abysmally. Maybe someone else with more imagination than me could have a go?

Hhhmmm well, let's see now..

1. Deputy (dog)
2. Poosalot
3. Bark Obama!
4. Flearoy
5. Tank
6. Chew Barker
7. Meatball
8. Izzy
9. Fuzzbucket
10.Sausage.

Next: top ten cartoon characters

Junk food? Is that an oxymoron? Just askin'.

Perfect example of an oxymoron AV!!

Anyone up for the ten best oxymora then?

Pf!! No.6!! Ouch!! You'll get us lynched. Our dear friends
in the States will never speak to us again.

How about these:-

1. Pretty ugly
2. Working holiday
3. Same difference
4. Seriously funny
5. Unbiased opinion
6. Crash landing
7. Now then
8. Original copy
9. Errm deafening silence - oh pf had that one!
10. Eeerrrmmmm Microsoft Works!! LOL!!

Here’s my contribution to lists of oxymorA lol.

1. Freshly frozen (advertisers are good at using oxymorons)
2. Slow boil
3. Dry ice
4. Quite finished
5. Old news
6. Awfully good (awfully British that one)
7. Open secret
8. Almost exactly
9. Too cold to snow (actually said by a weather forecaster on tele!)
10. And in the spirit of entente cordiale – quiet American (it’s a book title not my creation!)

I confess I had to go look five of these up, I couldn’t come up with ten of my own.

So ok what about top ten favourite (probably an oxymoron there!) movies.

LL

Ssshhh Lamps! I had to look up a couple too, just to get 10!! Don't tell anyone...

1. Monkey
2. Clangers
3. Why don't you
4. Top of the Pops (perhaps not appropriate at the mo)
5. Magic Roundabout
6. Tom and Jerry
7. Multi coloured swap shop
8. Blue Peter
9. football scores at the weekend (forfar 4 - fife 5) watched it with my grandfather.
10. Dr Who

Now who can list their top 10 childhood games (if it has not been done already)

Yep he did, never won though, but it was a ritual and a good memory!

Yep. We had to sit in silence through the footie
scores too while my dad wrote them down then
checked his coupon before chucking on the fire
in disgust!!! Happy times..

Btw; who remembers the teleprinter that showed
the early results at the bottom of the screen?
That flashing little blob thing that used to
bleep like an early video game. It used to
drive me nuts!!

I do, I do, I do

1. Yorkshire tea, hot strong and sweet (just like me LOL!!)
2. Capuccino
3. Coca cola
4. Guiness
5. Cider
6 and 7 A double scotch
8,9, and 10 a triple voddy and tonic!

ooooo!, is that cheating on the last two? Anyways i'd be too drunk to care...

Hate coca cola!!!

1. Soap
2. Smelly drawer liners
3. BHS jumper
4. Crossword book
5. CD of x mas music
6. Socks
7. Acutally anything smelly that is not designer
8. Surprises (I hate surprises)
9. Dictaphone
10. Slippers

Now for top 10

Have we had the top 10 best alcoholic drinks!!!

1. Dark rum and coke (full fat none of this diet stuff thank you very much.)
2. Pina colada
3. Malibu and milk
4. Whiskey sour
5. Banana daiquiri
6. Brown tequila coffee grounds and orange slice (who needs sour lemon and mouth puckering salt!)
7. Campari and bitter lemon (only when in Italy)
8. Pastis and ice (only when in Paris)
9. Suze and Cassis and ice (only when in France)
10. Australian red wine, preferably Wyndham Estate vintage of 1977 LOL doesn't exist any more I don't think, last time I drank that was in 1980 something...



Top ten favourite flowers (have we had that one yet?)

Hey Lampers, would I like to come to yours for a drink!!!

1. my husband
2. my husband
3. my husband
4,5,6,7,8,9 my husband
10. oh, my husband

Someone else please feel to be more sensible

Perhaps he and my wife would be well suited then!! LOL

Well you know he is probably looking for someone as we are separated by unfortunately tied to the house!!! Neither of us can afford to leave!!

Well we are separated too and hopefully will
be in our own places by Christmas. The best
present ever!! Yippee!! Another step in my
healing process dealt with. Tough but necessary
unfortunately.

Lucky you, AV, lucky you. I think we would be better friends if we were apart.

Hmmm. Lucky only if I don't think of the financial
cost. Half a lifetimes work and savings to pay
for ones freedom from a co-dependent way of life.

Ooops. Just realised that we have sort of
highjacked this thread somewhat.
Any more top ten suggestions anyone?

Top ten favourite colours

Oooo, this one is hard Lamps, so I've cheated and copied the first two lines from Sing a Rainbow

Orange and yellow and purple and green
Orange and purple and blue

Red and yellow and pink and green
Orange and purple and blue

Does that count as a valid entry; or am I banned for life now for cheating?

Lol yeah after I put it up I thought, ARE there ten different colours????? You could have gone for stuff like ultramarine, cerise, peach, cyan blah blah smartarse stuff like.

So yeah I reckon yours is a valid entry, top marks for effort!

What about another top ten?

Ooh how about top ten favourite stuffies, stuffed toys, cuddly animals, whatever they're called?

Actually that's a stupid list. I seem to have run out of ideas. Hm, top ten comic books? Valiant, Beano you know the ones...

Or top ten favourite bands?

Or top ten favourite DISCO songs (ack ack ack)

Or top ten favourite desserts?

That'll keep us going for a while I reckon

Top ten fave bands eh? Well, I'll be showing my age here, but:-

1. The Rolling Stones
2. Deep Purple
3. Led Zeppelin
4. The Beatles
5. AC/DC
6. Fleetwood Mac
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd
8. The Eagles
9. Guns 'n Roses
10. errm there must a new one on my list somewhere. Errm Black Country Communion. Err, no, they're all old fogeys cobbled together to form a new band too.

So, nothing much there after the 80's then!

80s music sucks even though that is technically my era. AV you sure are showing your age, I like the Eagles.

1. Creme brulee (annoying husband French)
2. Black Forest Gateau (no cherries)
3. Lemon meringue pie
4. Crumble (of any sort)
5. Anything with custard
6. Tarte tatin (annoying H again)
7. Chocolate cake with mint custard (from primary school)
8. Strawberry tart (take strawberries off, love the pastry)
9. Fruit pavlova
10.Apple pie (with custard)

Top 10 embarrassing moments (if not done already)

Oh don't delete PF, that is a memory to keep and smile at later!!

((Pf))

So it WAS you. I'm sure I was there that day!! LOL

Hmmmm! Etched in my memory for ever more Pf!!

How about a top ten favourite things to do at
the beach or on the coast? And please - CLEAN ones
only!!!

1. skinny dip!! (you become clean!!)
2. Skim stones
3. look for pretty shells
4. walk along the cliffs
5. roll trousers up to knees and paddle
6. swim
7. picnic
8. eat fish and chips
9. walk along the pier and play the arcades!!!!
10.Hold hands with a significant other and walk off into sunset

Clean enough AV? Top 10 "like to do or have done" adventures

Seems like we're not exactly an adventurous bunch of people then Scars. How's about a Top 10 Christmas songs, not Carols, but Christmas songs. Go on, you know you love them really

HHMM

1. Has to be Bing and White Christmas
2. Bing and Bowie Little Drummer Boy
3. Tom Jones and whatshername (Welsh) Cold outside
4. Winter Wonderland
5. Blue christmas
6. Fairy tale of New York
7. Lonely this christmas
8. Never do a tango with an eskimo
9. Santa baby, Kylie
10.When a child is born

Phew, I know, what about top 10 Xmas films!! that should bring out some strange ones