Chop's Top Fives

Top 5 Bands I've seen play live most frequently (and other stats)

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:30:00 +0000

Or, in other words, an excuse for me to reel off some stats that I've found out since I discovered the wonders of Song Kick. This is my gigography a record of every gig I've been to. Currently...

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Top 5 Things about Shepperton

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

We've lived in Shepperton for almost seven years now and are very much at home. It has the same suburban village feel I grew up with in Thames Ditton. It's the sort of place trendy alternative comics...

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Top 5 Footballs

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

As a kid my favourite ball to kick about in the back garden was a light bouncy plastic one. The sort you can get from Tesco for a quid now. I had a George Best Soccer Special which had his signature...

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Top 5 Indian Curry dishes

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0000

The school summer holidays are all but over and I've completely failed to build up a stock pile of top fives to kick start me on the weekly routine again. Think it could be a while before I've found...

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Top 5 Wombles

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Flicking through the channels the other day we stumbled across an episode of the Wombles. A great opportunity to show the boys what "proper kids television" is all about we thought. But no! This was...

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Top 5 Blake's 7 crew members

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Created by Terry Nation (the man who invented the Daleks), Blake's 7 was the BBC's answer to Star Wars. It was the talk of the playground in 1978 and quickly became the must see programme for boys...

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Top 5 Men on the Moon

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Last Monday (20th July) marked the 40th anniversary of the first men to walk on the moon. I was 1 at the time so don't have any genuine memories of the event but growing up in the "space age" had a...

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Top 5 Neogolistic words

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0000

More Washington Post based fun following lasts week's alternative definitions. The WP also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter,...

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Top 5 Alternative word definitions

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:00:00 +0000

The Washington Post runs a neologism contest in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. I had an email the other day which listed some of the best, they've probably...

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Top 5 Very Bad Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0000

I'm not someone who pays a great deal of attention to lyrics, it's the tune that gets my attention. When I do notice the words it's often because of a badly chosen rhyme or phrase and once I've...

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Has Michael Jackson died?

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:36:00 +0000

A little off my normal topic but this made me laugh. John Campbell's take on the media perception of celebrity deaths. So true. Check out John's other cartoons at Pictures for sad...

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Top 5 Flags of the World

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Apologies for the lack of updates recently, I've had the joy of a managerial training course at work and a long weekend of decorating at home. With the school summer holidays on the horizon my...

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Top 5 French footballers

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Last week I was able to capitalise on my "Internet fame" by attending a screening of the new Ken Loach film "Looking For Eric". It features Eric Cantona (as himself) providing some psychotherapy to a...

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Top 5 Films

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Last week's Star Wars related top five got me thinking about my all time favourite films. It's a pretty easy list. The top four have been set in stone for some time. I thought film number five was...

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Top 5 characters from Star Wars

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Like most boys (or girls) who were between the age of seven and twelve in 1977, Star Wars is one of my favourite movies. The saga it began is as popular now, thirty years on, as it was in the late...

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Top 5 Sitcoms that didn't make my other top fives

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:00:00 +0000

If you read this blog you'll know by know that I'm pretty anal about this sort of thing. Having returned to the sitcom topic I've realised there were a few great shows that I either narrowly ruled...

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Top 5 Sitcoms of All Time

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000

My favourite sitcoms of all time. 1. Blackadder (1983-1987) Blackadder rode the crest of the Eighties alternative comedy wave. It took the anarchic style of new young comedians and turned it into...

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Top 5 U.S. Sitcoms

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000

I kind of abandoned the sitcom top fives sometime last year and figured it was time I finished them off. This week it's my top five American comedies. Looking down the list sentimentality seems to...

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Top 5 Incidents with my Glasses at Gigs

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000

OK. Something a little different this week. I hope this might act as a useful reminder to myself that a) I am stupid, b) Beer only serves to make me more stupid and c) I should NEVER wear my glasses...

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Top 5 Muppets

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:00:00 +0000

I can remember the first time I ever saw the Muppets. A boring evening at one of my Uncles was transformed by an explosion of colour and a show that seemed to be "The Good Old Days" for kids. I was...

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Top 5 things written by Alan Moore

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Continuing the comics theme. Alan Moore is a genius and I was lucky enough to be reading comics at a time when he was at his peak. He changed the face of comic book writing and spearheaded the...

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Top 5 Movies based on comics

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

I'm getting needlessly excited about the release of the Watchmen movie. Most of the superhero films I saw as a kid were major disappointments. The technology wasn't capable of coping with the most...

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Top 5 Mr Men

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Roger Hargreaves stumbled across the perfect formula for children's bed time reading. They're quick to read, easy to follow and colourful to look at. They're timeless too. I had them read to me as a...

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Top 5 Most Played Songs on my iPod

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Something a bit different this week to celebrate the completion of a musical challenge I began back in August 2008. I've now listened to all 3512 songs on my iPod in alphabetical order of song title....

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Top 5 Car Chases

noreply@blogger.com (Chopper) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Car chases can be a bit like drum solo's. They're easy enough to do but not so easy to get right and too often you're left feeling you've seen it all before. These are five car chases that either...

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