Select menu keystroke I was trying to look for the select menu shortcut from the settings to no avail. The reason for this is I want to improve my workflow and adding select menu to a simple simple keystroke would improve it a lot. 

Now I know it's possible add hotkeys for individual actions, but I tend to use a lot of the tools available in the select menu and it would be great to have them all under a shortcut accessible menu. Similar to how one can bring up the Specials contextual with the W button.

tl;dr: How can I bring this up with a keystroke?
Open up the User Preferences Window and switch to Input tab
Expand the 3D View -> 3D View (Global) keymap and add a new item (Scroll down and click the Add New button.
Enter the operator name as wm.call_menu
Enter the operator parameter Name as VIEW3D_MT_view
Assign your desired hotkey.
Save user preferences (Click on the Save User Settings button.