Your Favoritest Thing: A Poll
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on January 23, 2012 – 7:13 AM72 Comments
Dave Dickerson and I want to know which of Maria’s favorite things is your favorite. We may or may not have a dollar bet on how various favorite things finish in this extremely scientific accounting of their popularity; in order for us to reveal our predictions, however, y’all need to vote.
Update 1/23/12: The poll has closed; you can see the results after the jump. DD’s and my aim was to identify the LEAST favorite of the favorite things, and the internet has spoken…about its apathy towards doorbells. Thanks for voting!
Of Maria's favorite things from "The Sound of Music," which is YOUR favoritest? You may vote for only one.
- Whiskers on kittens (27%, 455 Votes)
- Crisp apple strudels (18%, 298 Votes)
- Brown paper packages tied up with strings (15%, 257 Votes)
- Silver-white winters that melt into springs (9%, 151 Votes)
- Warm woolen mittens (7%, 117 Votes)
- Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes (7%, 110 Votes)
- Schnitzel with noodles (5%, 76 Votes)
- Cream-colored ponies (4%, 60 Votes)
- Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings (2%, 42 Votes)
- Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes (2%, 39 Votes)
- Bright copper kettles (2%, 34 Votes)
- Raindrops on roses (2%, 29 Votes)
- Sleigh bells (1%, 9 Votes)
- Doorbells (0%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,681
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Kittens for me.
We are having a long break from “the Maria movie” in my house because my 3 year old began asking everyone he met if they were Nazis.
Jen, I too, was in a production of “The Sound of Music.” I was 13 and played a nun, so I didn’t get to sing this song. But I did have to sing about how Maria was a flibbertigibbet and I had NO idea what that meant except that I probably would have really liked the real Maria.
It was hard for me to choose whiskers on kittens over apple strudel, but I figure that if there are whiskers in my presence there is an entire kitten, and that is more awesome than any dessert. I love kittens.
It’s not that I like kittens. It’s that kittens without whiskers? Innordinately sad.
Whiskers OFF kittens: also not cool.
Brown paper packages make me think of the end of “Seven.” I’ll go with whiskers on kittens; I have 3 cats.
@WEHAF, more of us have encountered kittens than ponies so familiarity helps with the choices, BUT point taken! OMG!!! PONIES!!!! Sooooo cute!!
Yeah, I went with the ponies, too. Because, well, ponies are pretty! I like the white dresses with blue satin sashes, but not necessarily the girls in them. Schnizel and noodles probably comes in third; it’s the German in me coming out.
Slightly off topic, but: A co-worker of mine, D, as a child, had watched The Sound of Music many times . . . or so he thought. In fact, his parents had showed him only the beginning, before anything bad/scary happens. One day, D and his family go to visit his grandparents, and the Sound of Music is on TV. Everyone’s chatting, eating snacks, when D, shocked, yells: “Oh my god! Fritz is a Nazi?!”
I voted for snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes, because that rarely happens. I live in Oregon, and usually I’m just getting rained on.
I also agree with the lovely person who commented that schnitzel should go with spaetzle, and I totally would have voted for that. Yum.
@Georgia, yep, Fritz really turned out to be a dickhole. This is why you don’t marry your first boyfreind in a haze of duet-ing about your sixteen year oldness, folks. Pay attention to his door announcement etiquette first! Ringing the doorbell? Good. Pounding with fist? NAZI!
Don’t you people realize NOTHING rhymes with spaetzle? (Nothing you can put in a family movie, anyway.) Oh, the humanity!
My problem with brown paper packages tied up with string has a lot to do with UPS’s signature-requiring policy and delivery hours and having to take a day off of work in order to trek to the branch office only to find that they’d sent it back.
Actually, “stuff I can actually get” determined my preferences more than it should have, perhaps: I live on the third floor, so not so much with the ponies, and Boston is less about the silver-white winters that melt into spring than it is about the dingy gray winters that REFUSE TO MELT UNTIL JUNE, DAMMIT.
Man, when did I start bringing this much realism to things? And how can I stop?
Am I the only one reading these comments and picturing Fritz getting ready to pound on a door and then being cuffed by another burly SS officer all “what, were you born in a barn? Where are your manners? Ring the doorbell! We don’t want to intrude, it might be a bad time!” I suspect 1940’s Europe would have been much, much different had the Nazis been doorbell ringers.
Just me then? All right…
Musical geek-The Nazi boy’s name was Rolf. Fritz was the butler.
@Jo: The movie’s about as historicly accurate as a FOX news report, and actually, the real Maria VonTrapp was apparently something of a bitch, or at least had a temper. And they did not climb over the mountains on foot-they left on a train, openly.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html
When I was a child, my dad told me that The Sound of Music was really based on Julie Andrews’s own life, but they had to use some of the Von Trapp’s story because the producers of Mary Poppins owned the rights to Julie Andrews’s name. I was 6, ok? It made perfect sense at the time.
(…Dad also told me that Jailhouse Rock was Elvis’s autobiographical movie. You’d think I’d have learned the first time.) :/
@ Kim – “Am I the only one reading these comments and picturing Fritz getting ready to pound on a door and then being cuffed by another burly SS officer all “what, were you born in a barn? Where are your manners? Ring the doorbell! We don’t want to intrude, it might be a bad time!” I suspect 1940’s Europe would have been much, much different had the Nazis been doorbell ringers.
Just me then? All right…”
You WERE the only one… until now… awesome.
I couldn’t decide between kittens and ponies, so I split the difference and went with wild geese. But seriously, I love the eerie/beautiful imagery of that line!
@Emma- haha, your dad totally reminds me of the dad in Calvin and Hobbes. Those are hilarious explanations. Also, that is one reason to have kids- to see what ridiculous crap you can make them believe- right? No? okay then :)
@Valerie: Kurt is concerned by the offscreen P.A. who is wildly gesticulating trying to get Friedrich to haul his butt up off the end of the bed so he doesn’t fall back and hang by his knees again LIKE LAST TIME. (Liesl thought it was funny and just wants to watch him do it again, is why she’s nonplussed.)
@Sarah D. Bunting: Regarding your ersatzel, there’s a vegetarian place in Bloomington, Indiana that serves chicken (or country, same diff, nomenclature varies with latitude) fried seitan with a mushroom-y gravy and it is tasty. Pretty similar, in that wiener schnitzel is basically chicken fried veal (with a paprika cream sauce and, hopefully, spaetzle.) I worked in an Austrian restaurant in high school and was terribly surprised by this- I assumed it involved sausage.
OMG that sounds amazing. I found a mushroom gravy recipe recently that sounds super-meaty, too, so I’m really into that idea.
I feel compelled to point out that if you voted for “girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes” and are a man over 20, you might be a pedophile.