Take Five

My five favorite....

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Athletes:

1. Mario Lemieux
2. Terry Bradshaw
3. Franco Harris
4. "Mean" Joe Greene
5. Andy Van Slyke

Sports teams:

1. Pittsburgh Steelers
2. Pittsburgh Pirates
3. Maryland Terrapins Men's Basketball
4. Pittsburgh Penguins
5. Maryland Terrapins Women's Basketball

Pizza places:

1. The Ledo Restaurant (College Park, MD)
2. Dino's (Suitland, MD - now gone!)
3. Giordano's (Chicago)
4. Matchbox (Chinatown, DC)
5. Margellina's (Clinton, MD)

Sitcoms (current):

1. Last Man Standing (ABC)
2. Big Bang Theory (CBS)
3. Modern Family (ABC)
4. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
5. The Goldberg's (ABC)

Sitcoms (all-time):

1. Happy Days
2. Seinfeld
3. Police Squad!
4. NewsRadio
5. The Andy Griffith Show

Movie Comedies:

1. Young Frankenstein
2. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
3. Airplane!
4. The Naked Gun
5. Hold That Ghost

Colors:

1. Blue
2. Red
3. Black
4. Gold
5. White

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Roller Coasters (Wooden):

1. Cyclone (Coney Island, NY)
2. The Wild One (Six Flags America, Largo, MD)
3. Thunderbolt (Kennywood, West Mifflin, PA)
4. Rebel Yell (Kings Dominion, Doswell, VA)
5. American Thunder (Six Flags St. Louis, MO)

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Roller Coasters (Steel):

1. Millennium Force (Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH)
2. The Loch Ness Monster (Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA)
3. Apollo's Chariot (Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA)
4. Manta (SeaWorld, Orlando, FL)
5. (tie) Magnum XL-200 (Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH)/Goliath (Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA)

Movie Dramas:

1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. The Caine Mutiny
4. Elizabethtown
5. Grand Canyon

Rock Bands:

1. YES
2. The Eagles
3. The Police
4. Steely Dan
5. The Electric Light Orchestra

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Cities (I've visited):

1. Pittsburgh
2. San Francisco
3. Las Vegas
4. New York
5. Seattle

States (I've visited):

1. South Dakota
2. Pennsylvania
3. California
4. Arizona
5. Colorado

Amusement Parks:

1. Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA
2. Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH
3. Universal Islands of Adventure, Orlando, FL
4. Hershey Park, Hershey, PA
5. Kennywood, West Mifflin, PA

Jazz Bands:

1. James Taylor Quartet
2. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
3. Dave Brubeck Quartet
4. Benny Goodman Orchestra
5. Count Basie Orchestra

Small(er) Towns (I've visited):

1. Ellicott City, MD
2. Deadwood, SD
3. Indiana, PA
4. Williamsburg, VA
5. Charleston, SC

Movie Westerns:

1. Tombstone
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
3. The War Wagon
4. Winchester '73
5. High Noon

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Muscle Cars of the Late 60s/Early 70s:

1. Oldsmobile 442
2. Plymouth Barracuda
3. Mercury Cougar
4. Dodge Charger
5. Chevrolet El Camino

Sci-Fi Movies:

1. The Thing (From Another World)
2. Godzilla (original)
3. Star Wars
4. Star Trek II:  The Wrath of Khan
5. War of the Worlds

Saxophone players:

1. Paul Desmond
2. Stanley Turrentine
3. Gerry Mulligan
4. Jeff Coffin
5. (tie) Jay Beckenstein/Mark Colby/Bobby Militello

Action Movies:

1. The Road Warrior
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Aliens
4. The Avengers
5. Iron Man

Columbia, MD, area restaurants

1. La Palapa Too
2. Houlihan's
3. Eggspectation
4. Pubdog
5. Rocky Run (gone!)

Suspenseful Movies:

1. Rear Window
2. North By Northwest
3. The Birds
4. The Day of the Jackal
5. Westworld

Blogs:

1. That's Church
2. (tie) News From ME / ...by Ken Levine
3. Six Until Me
4. The Yaug Blog
5. BonneVivanteLife