Favorite Threes (right now)

[North Star]

You goy it almost right. It's pi, i and e.

e is in the top six, definitely, but not among my favourite three.

[The new erato]

e is in the top six, definitely, but not among my favourite three.

As far as I can see, e is in three (twice).

[Brian]

Numbers:
1. 28

Good thing you didn't ask for Favorite Twenty-Eights.

[DavidW]

Favorite three numbers:

-1
0
1

[North Star]

As far as I can see, e is in three (twice).

Very clever 

Good thing you didn't ask for Favorite Twenty-Eights.

Favourite solo piano works with opus number 28:

Chopin Preludes
Beethoven Pastorale Sonata
Suk About Mother

[Brian]

Songs Back-to-Back on an Album That Really Do Sound Better When Played Back-to-Back Than When You Only Hear One of Them
1. "Strange Fruit," "Sinnerman," Nina Simone, Pastel Blues
2. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Here Comes the Sun," The Beatles, Abbey Road
3. "Sgt. Pepper's Theme," "With a Little Help from My Friends," The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's

Eight-Plus-Minute Songs
1. "Sinnerman," Nina Simone
2. "American Pie," Don McLean
3. "The Mariner's Revenge Song," The Decemberists

Genre-Bending Covers
1. "Hurt," Johnny Cash (orig. Reznor)
2. "This Land is Your Land," Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (orig. Guthrie)
3. "Umbrella," The Baseballs (orig. Rihanna)

[Elgarian]

Three Favourite sixteens

Sixteen
16
13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19.

[Elgarian]

Three favourite smells

Roasting coffee beans
Aberlour a'bunadh
The inside of my Martin acoustic guitar

[Brian]

Smells
1. vanilla
2. cumin
3. the minute after it stops raining

Overweight Actors
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman
2. John Goodman
3. Lavell Crawford

Unusual Food Retail Places in Dallas
1. Scardello



2. Super H Mart



3. Jimmy's Food Store

[Sergeant Rock]

Eight-Plus-Minute Songs
1. "Tunnel of Love" Dire Straits
2. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Iron Butterfly
3. "Land" Patti Smith Group

Genre-Bending Covers
1. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" Grateful Dead (orig. Traditional)
2. "To Know Him Is To Love Him" Emmylou Harris with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt (orig. Phil Spector's The Teddy Bears)
3. "Sweet Jane" Cowboy Junkies (orig. Lou Reed)

Whiskies
1. Highland Park 18yo
2. Ardbeg 10yo
3. Bunnahabhain 12yo

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Smells
1. vanilla
2. cumin
3. the minute after it stops raining

Ditto 

Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Wines:
Red
White
Everything else

[TheGSMoeller]

Genre-Bending Covers
1. "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" Grateful Dead (orig. Traditional)
2. "To Know Him Is To Love Him" Emmylou Harris with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt (orig. Phil Spector's The Teddy Bears)
3. "Sweet Jane" Cowboy Junkies (orig. Lou Reed)

Sarge

Amazing list, Sarge.    Spot on.

[Sergeant Rock]

White Wine
1. Riesling
2. Pinot blanc (Weissburgunder)
3. Sauvignon blanc

Blended Scotch
1. Dimple
2. Black & White
3. Ballantine's

Bier
1. Spaten Export
2. Weihenstephan Pilsner
3. DAB (Dortmunder Actien Brauerei) Pilsner


Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

Godard Films
1. Contempt
2. Alphaville
3. Passion

Fellini Films
1. 8 1/2
2. Amarchord
3. And The Ship Sails On

[Karl Henning]

Vegetables:
1. red onion
2. plum tomato
3. ginger

King Crimson albums:
1. Larks' Tongues in Aspic
2. Red
3. Discipline

T. Coraghessan Boyle books:
1. Water Music
2. World's End
3. East Is East

[Mirror Image]

Favorite Progressive Rock Bands

1. Genesis
2. King Crimson
3. Marillion

Favorite Video Games

1. Donkey Kong Country
2. Super Metroid
3. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Favorite Pastas

1. Linguine
2. Penne
3. Angel Hair Spaghetti

Favorite Superheroes

1. Daredevil
2. Batman
3. Spider-Man

[Brian]

Noodles
1. 'angel hair'
2. spaghetti
3. rice noodles

Musicians Named Art
1. Art Blakey
2. Art Tatum
3. Art Garfunkel

Wine Types+Regions for Grabbing Off Shelf Without Researching Specific Wineries
1. New Zealand sauvignon blanc
2. Mendoza malbec
3. Oregon pinot noir

[Elgarian]

Ways of being silly

1. Pretending to be normal
2. Jumping on the table, crooking one arm against my hip, sticking the other arm sideways, and shouting 'I'm a teapot!'
3. Thinking of new ways of being silly

[pencils]

Favourite atheistic philosophers:

1. Jean-Paul Sartre
2. Albert Camus
3. Friedrich Nietzsche

Favourite Calvinist cultural commentators:

1. Abraham Kuyper
2. Carl Henry
3. Henry Van Til

Favourite species of dwarf hamster:

1. Campbell's standard Russian Dwarf
2. Roborovski
3. Chinese