Gimme 5

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All you have to do is answer the previous 'Gimme 5' and set a new one.
So if the previous poster asked for 5 types of pizza I would say:

Meat feast
Pepperoni
Ham & Pineapple
Calzone
Margherita

Now, gimme 5 coastal countries

Neuschwanstein Castle
San Simeon "Hearst's Castle"
Chrysler Building
Lanarch Castle, Dunedin
Falling Water

5 favourite Bridges

Kevin Bridges
Tower Bridge
Hungerford Bridge
London Bridge
Millennium Bridge

5 favourite species of shark

Grey Nurse
Spotted Wobbegong
Longfin Mako
Hammerhead
Tiger

5 favourite Birds of Prey

Crowned Eagle
Giant Eagle Owl
Martial Eagle
Bateleur
Pearl-Spotted Owl

5 favourite Coen Brothers films

No Country For Old Men
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
True Grit
A Serious Man

Your 5 favourite Marx Bros. films

Duck Soup
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again: 5 favourite Marx Bros films

A Day At The Races
A Night At The Opera
Animal Crackers
Horse Feathers
The Big Store

(your) 5 favourite Coen Brothers films

Barton Fink
O Brother Where Art Though
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing

5 favourite venomous snakes

King Cobra
Black Mamba
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Tiger Snake
Desert Horned Viper

5 favourite poisonous spiders

Sydney Funnel Web (none so far this year...)
Blue Mountains Funnel web (even more venomous!)
Black Widow
Redback
White-tailed spider

5 things to do After Surviving the December 21, 2012 Apocalypse

wake up with a monumental hangover
have a giant celebratory poo
hide from all the women you groped thinking it wouldn't matter
start panicking about the next apocalypse
punch your dog in the face

5 more things to do After Surviving the December 21, 2012 Apocalypse

Mourn the fact that One Direction are still alive
Punch a cardboard cut out of Simon Cowell (in place of getting hold of the real thing) with the worst hangover in the world
Talk about the most amazing Scarlets win in the world, and which of the 20 tries was my favourite!
Read about all the disappointed 'Apocalypse Believers' who now have to go home and tell their wives why they gave their house to a drug dealer in exchange for a bag of 'party drugs' and then left to climb a hill in France!
Have another drink...

Top 5 World ending scares the Earth has survived

Hurricane Harry (the cartoon character from Cool McCool)
My bellowing fart(s) after a big steak
Y2K Virus... what a load a poppycock that was!
One Direction / Hanson
The 1522? tidal wave which apparently crashed over Bondi Beach and created the optimal conditions (lots of sand was carried a mile or so inland) for the Royal Golf Course in Rose Bay.

5 more World Ending Scares we have survived.

dubya
global warming (so far)
North Korea (so far)
ebola virus (so far)
religious extremism (so far)

5 reasons to be cheerful (that don't include watching people injuring themselves)

Your Children
Your Health
Sex
Your Team actually winning for a change
School starting again soon (love the kids but god i cant wait for them to go back to school )

5 of yours

apart from your ones

Availability/choice of food
Nice climate generally
All the great movies to come
All the sport to come
New discoveries / breakthroughs, etc.

5 Best Things you Like about Winter

The smell in the air when it's going to snow
Sunrise on a frosty morning
Going sledging
Arriving home and getting a roaring fire going in the wood burner
The strangely audible silence you get when it snows

5 things you dislike about winter

please don't laugh....

The shortened hours of daylight
The fact that you have to wear more clothes
That cold feeling you get before getting into a bath/shower as the cold air finds your exposed skin.
Same thing - just before you hop into bed
Wet & cold toes... if you are wearing inappropriate shoes

Your 5 things you dislike about winter

Not laughing, I agree with some, they're just a little more pronounced up here

Having to get up even earlier to allow time to scrape the frost off your car
Hitting a patch of black ice when driving and losing control of said car
When it rains constantly for what seems like forever
Kids that think the way to drive on snow is to hit the accelerator and rev the Love sacks out of the engine... it's not!
The incessant shade of grey when the weather's nondescript

5 things you like about spring

oooh I know....

leaves coming back on trees
the smell of jasmine? honeysuckle?
more light in the mornings / evenings
football finals (here)
fruit & vegetables seem bigger!

your 5 things you like about spring

Longer daylight hours
Cherry Blossom
Magnolias flowering
Migratory birds coming to the garden feeders
Getting summer clothes out ready, in hope if not expectation!

5 favourite pastimes

travelling to foreign places, exploring unfamiliar cities
going to museums, theatres, sports events, etc
observing wildlife in landscapes
chilling out in the evening & on weekends
reading & listening to music

Another 5 favourite pastimes

Playing with the kids
Watching/Playing Sport
Watching films
Fishing
Listening to music

5 Things you want to do before you die

Meet you, Swanny & Co. for a good laugh
Visit South America
Design a castle (for pure folly!)
Pat a snow leopard
Make a film

Your 5 things....

See my kids married and happy
Hold a grandchild
See my beloved Liverpool win the Premier league
Watch a Superbowl live
Share a beer or three with the v2 crowd

5 things you wish you hadn't done

Broken My Leg
Met 1st Wife
Not keep practising other language/s
Predicted an Ashes win in 2010
Pinched a few things from shops when I was a kid (even though I got away with it)

5 other things you wish you hadn't done

Any injury I've had
Drunk a bottle of scotch in 30 mins
Not kept up with creative stuff I used to do in school
Got anorexia nervosa at age 15
Falling for someone and being rejected awkwardly

5 adaptations/covers (any kind) that surpass the original?

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Joe Cocker - With a Little help from my friends
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Sinead O' Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

5 best movie sequels

The Dark Knight Rises
Toy Story 3
Aliens
Once upon a time in Mexico
From Russia with Love


5 actors or actresses you think are underrated

Edward Norton
Grace Jones
Carey Mulligan ...rising star
Mark Ruffalo
Paul Bettnay

5 more underrated actors/actresses

Hugo Weaving
Michael Sheen
John C Reilly
Dakota Fanning
Brendan Gleeson

5 favourite tv characters

Eric Cartman
Homer Simpson
Norm Peterson
Al Bundy
BA Baracus

5 more

Brian Griffin
Dr Percival Cox
Peyton Sawyer
Dr Sheldon Cooper
Tom Quinn

The 5 worst comedies on TV

Ray Doyle
Eric Northman
Gregory House
Gene Hunt
Trigger ( only fools )

5 songs at your funeral

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Sleep by Eric Whitacre
Samson by Regina Specktor
Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles (keep the mood up a bit)
(cliche alert) Let it Be by the Beatles

You are planning a bank job against Fort Knox or something. The 5 people or fictional characters you handpick to join you

George Clooney in his Oceans 11 mode
Hannibal Smith the ATeam
The Hulk
Sherlock Holmes
and one of the Ice Road Truckers as a get away driver

5 all time people you'd want round for dinner

Leonardo da Vinci (and his translator...)
Jesus or Paul the Apostle
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (an ancestor)
William Shakespeare or Chaucer
Queen Arsinoe (Cleopatra's sister)

sorry about the multiples... it's such a great "Gimme 5"

5 more All Time People you'd want round for dinner

Ian Botham
Kenny Dalglish
Alice Cooper
George W Bush
Henry VIII

5 more you'd like to get drunk with

Ian Gillan
Russell Crowe
Ted Nugent
Peter O Toole
Richard Burton

5 deceased people you would like to talk to

My Dad
Alex Higgins
Bill Shankley
JFK
Winston Churchill

5 of yours

Freddie Mercury
Edward Lister
Oscar Wilde
Sir Arthur Wellesley
My Grandma

5 things you hope you teach your kids

Respect
Manners
A good work ethic
Common sense
and to look after Dad when they grow up

5 things you wish for your kids

That if you do anything you do it properly and to the best of your ability
To always put yourself in other people's shoes
Being polite is free
Help others and they will help you
Money is important but not as important as respect or people

5 songs you wish you could sing/play but can't

Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partirò) ....sing
Parisienne Walkways ......play
5th caprice .......from the guitar duel in Crossroads ...play
We all Die young .... from Rock Star ....sing
Dont look back in anger ......sing

5 more

Music of the Night- Phantom of the Opera (sing)
Brothers in arms - Dire Straits(play)
Not Afraid- Eminem (rap)
All along the watchtower- Hendrix (play)
Layla- Clapton (play)

5 things you would learn to do if you had the time

Japanese
Guitar
Piano
Web Design
Urban Planning

5 more things you would learn if you had the time

Spanish
Proper ballroom dancing
Music composition
Indian languages, probably Punjabi
Electrician skills

5 posters here you wish you could meet in real life

good ones CJ - Spanish, ballroon dancing, electrical skills for me too!

You!
Kenny
Swanny
Hound
Glas

5 posters you wish you could meet from here

Linebreaker
Swanny
eirebilly
Gibson
tigerobins

5 threads you wish you started

This one
The Make Your Own Limerick Up Thread
Answer With A Question
Rate the Song Above You
the England-Wales Bickering Thread

Your 5 Favourite threads