List of awesome

[BrandtPileggi]

I was looking for a list of awesome people, places or things the other day and couldn't find one. So I'm enlisting all of your help. I'll start with some obvious examples.

Ninja
Pirate
Zombie
Stripper
Chuck Norris
Mr. Miyagi
Mr. T
Tortuga
Numchucks
Uppercuts
Pie
etc...

ready...



Go!

[Listener]

The original Superman march by John Williams.

[robertmarkbram]

Conan
Death (ala Terry Pratchett)
Theme music to NightRider
Rocky Balboa and the Eye of the Tiger theme song
The smell of her hair in the morning

[BrandtPileggi]

Titties
Voltron
Anything-tron
stripper poles
hugh heffner
Dim Mak
Lumberjacks
hot wings
Weng Weng (you tube it)

[raygunray]

David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
Blade - the part in the move where he says "Some MotherFrakkers Just wanna iceskate uphill."
William Gibson

[Thaurismunths]

Women/Men/Both?
mountains
coffee
coffee based products
beer
beer based products
suddenly not dieing
quitting time
snow days/waking up stupidly early only to find out you get to go back to bed guilt-free
automatic weapons
robots
ninjas
pirates
Saturday morning cartoons from when you were a kid (totally subjective)
Escapepod/Pseudopod/Podcastle?
gummy candies
Swiss Rolls
horses
the great out doors

[Chodon]

Rockets
Cluster bombs going off in a graveyard full of zombies
Airplanes
Hamburgers

[Alasdair5000]

In no particular order:

-That shot from the end of Star Trek IV where they lift over the Excelsior, the 1701-A comes into view and the fanfare plays.
-The entire credit sequence to Terminator 2.
-The Doctor Who theme tune. 
-The Space 1999 theme tune.
-Chirstopher Eccleston's delivery of the line 'I never said it would be easy, in fact I repeatedly said it would be crap.'
-Whilst we're on the subject, the entire 'Just this once...EVERYONE LIVES!' speech from The Doctor Dances. 
-Kate Winslet with purple hair in Dark Season.
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  All of it.
-That moment, the first time you see the Usual Suspects where you and Dave put the truth together at THE SAME TIME.
-19th century magicians.
-'You honestly think any of us are going to live through this?' '...I might.'
-Really, really good Turkish food.
-The Isle of Aran
-The Aran Islands (Same name, different place, may have spelt it wrong)  Ever seen Father Ted?  The ship beached on top of the cliffs IS ACTUALLY THERE.  Also, home to a village of fifteen people which sits on the western most tip of Europe, just before the Atlantic.
-The Road to Hell by Chris Rea.

[Leon Kensington]

Laser
Sharks
Sharks with Lasers
Snipers
Zombies
Ninjas
Katanas
Bill Adama
Cory Doctorow
BSG Viper
MST3K Episode 'Space Mutiny'

[DKT]

Bas Lag
London Below
The Far Side of Hell
The Sprawl
Urth
Hogwarts
Narnia
Sanctuary

[DKT]

light-sabers and blasters
rock and roll
Han Solo and Indiana Jones
Wolverine
Tyler Durden
The Beach (the book, not so much the movie)
comic books
Brian K. Vaughan and Y the Last Man
John Constantine Hellblazer
Logan's Run
The Matrix (1)
Fox Mulder

[lowky]

Hammer Dracula Movies
any other movies staring both peter cushing and christopher lee
Top Secret!
Squids and other tentacled sea creatures
Escape Pod
Pseudo Pod
Lovecraft
Blue Moon's Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale (one of the best things about september and october.)
Halloween

[Planish]

- Jamaican "Blue Mountain" coffee.
- My stainless steel buckler that I made and use.
- "Lemon Boy" tomatos from my back yard
- Hershey's Chocolate Sauce (They don't seem to be very good at making chocolate anything else, but their sauce is the best.)
- "Chirgilchin" - a Tuvan throat-singing (overtone singing) group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJhrZn8o-s . I saw them performn in a small church venue.
- "Angel Wings" missile decoy flares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adc0ziYl8HU
- icebergs (amazing colour)
- peregrine falcons - it's real treat to watch them fly.
- The pizza we used to get from some place on Viateur Street, in Montreal, about 45 years ago. They would have a guy making the crusts (by tossing them up) in the front window.
- The first Led Zeppelin album, especially the cover art.
- "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak.
- "Possession" by Sarah McLaughlan
- the Agnus Dei from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem.
- Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto In G Major- II. Adagio Assai
- home-made iced tea
- Marilyn Monroe in The Seven-Year Itch.
- A Hammond B3 hooked up to Lesley organ speakers.
- A real pipe organ
- The collection of big-ass trebuchets at http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/ . Article with pics for the Danish-impaired here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/middel.html
- flying dreams
- Sussex Golden Ginger Ale & vanilla ice cream floats
- Anything barbecued (that's supposed be barbecued)
- Twin Peaks (the TV series)

[shwankie]

There are several on other folk's lists that I second (and third), but I'll try not to be redundant:

-candles on a cold night
-Heinlein, before he went nuts
-Firefly & Serenity, most of Buffy.
-Thaurismunths sleeping in the light of daybreak, in a tent
-crisp fall air
-homemade bread w/homemade applebutter
-"Hawk the Slayer" (with lots of booze and many friends--sober is a whole different movie)
-"Crescent," and Phil Rossi
-EP and PP, of course!
-Rockblock SoNo Syrah wine and Neuhaus chocolates. Good alone, awesome together
-my three-legged black cat
-That great Irish Pub in Detroit, where the owner's dog will sit at your table. In your chair. And eat your food if you're not watching too closely. (Foran's Irish Pub). And their all-from-scratch Reubens.
-Full Metal Alchemist
-Scrabble
-Green Zebra heirloom tomatoes
-the view from Mary's Rock, which is worth every inch of the climb.

[Bdoomed]

SPARTA!!!!
God
Guitar Hero
America

[Thaurismunths]

America

:Fuck Yeah!!!!!

[FNH]

Basil Rathbone playing Sherlock Holmes

[Darwinist]

Muttley
Lambeau Field
Adler Planetaruim
Kennedy Space Center
2001
Spring
Giant Dogs
Silversun Pickups
My Bloody Valentine
Upper Mississippi River
Waltzes
Aimee Mann
Williams Arena
The Big Ticket

[Listener]

Ministry of Magic (the band; find them on MySpace)
Panera's mushroom foccacia sandwich
Soup in bread-bowls
Giving up and restarting a story and realizing that it's much better this time around
The new girl at work -- I know, I'm a lech, but she's got very nice... um... assets... and is a very nice person too, and is not afraid of the casual touch (she's European).

[Russell Nash]

The right to say the president's an idiot.

[Thaurismunths]

The right to say the president's an idiot.

The ability to drive from Maine to California with out having to ask permission or pass a checkpoint.

[wakela]

So I was out one night with two other Americans and one Japanese guy.   When you get more than one American together at a bar in Japan, we invariably complain about Japan.  We live here and often are married to Japanese people, so it's all in fun.  If you don't do it you go nuts.  Anyway, after an hour or two of getting increasingly loud and drunk, it finally made it through our think gaijin skulls that maybe we were being insensitive to our Japanese friend.  So I asked him:

"We've been complaining about Japan.  You lived in the US, what complaints to you have about America?"
"Oh, nothing.  It was very nice."
"C'mon, we're all friends here.  We can take it.  What did you not like about the US?"
"You have too many couch potatoes.  You lay in the couch and just watch TV."
"That's the best you got?  Laying on the couch and watching TV is awesome.  What else?"
"Too many parties.  You guys go out and party too much."
"Mmmmmm ... yeah.  That's actually not too bad, either.  You did understand the question, right?"
"Also, the food is not so healthy.  Too many hamburgers and fries."
"Okaaay.  Yeah.  I actually like hamburgers and fries."

Now the Japanese are playing 3-D chess when it comes to etiquette, so he was certainly softballing us and avoiding anything that might cause controversy.  But still, the three Americans agreed that he had deftly summed up three of our favorite things about the US.  So, long story short, my addition to the list of awesome comes from my Japanese friend:

couch potatoes
partying too much
burgers and fries

[Russell Nash]

The right to say the president's an idiot.

The ability to drive from Maine to California with out having to ask permission or pass a checkpoint.

Why quote me.  Unless you're one of those that thinks it's unAmerican to criticize a president.

You can do the same thing from New Brunswick to British Columbia.

You can do the same from Italy to Sweden by only flashing your ID at the international borders.  You can't do that from Mexico to Canada.

[Thaurismunths]

The right to say the president's an idiot.

The ability to drive from Maine to California with out having to ask permission or pass a checkpoint.

Why quote me.  Unless you're one of those that thinks it's unAmerican to criticize a president.

You can do the same thing from New Brunswick to British Columbia.

You can do the same from Italy to Sweden by only flashing your ID at the international borders.  You can't do that from Mexico to Canada.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply in any way that I was supporting Bush, only that I was seconding your sentiments.

[Russell Nash]

The right to say the president's an idiot.

The ability to drive from Maine to California with out having to ask permission or pass a checkpoint.

Why quote me.  Unless you're one of those that thinks it's unAmerican to criticize a president.

You can do the same thing from New Brunswick to British Columbia.

You can do the same from Italy to Sweden by only flashing your ID at the international borders.  You can't do that from Mexico to Canada.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply in any way that I was supporting Bush, only that I was seconding your sentiments.

I over-reacted.  I just heard that "anyone who doesn't support the President is un-American" line way too often.  It has to be the single most un-American comment I've ever heard in my life.