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Five terrible fake movies on Lifetime this week (and who each stars)

  1. “Bring Back my Baby!” (Merdith Baxter)
  2. “Hey, That’s my Baby You’ve Got!” (Suzanne Somers)
  3. “Baby, Come Back” (Mariel Hemingway)
  4. “My Baby is Missing!” (Anne Heche)
  5. “Baby in a Tree: A True Story” (Mariette Hartley)

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Five things anyone in earshot should legally be permitted to do to a car for as long as its alarm is falsely blaring

Hit fenders repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer Defecate on windshield Break into trunk, fill with AOL® discs Throw razor-sharp lawn darts at tires Draw pee-pees and woo-woos on the driver-side door

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Five Childhood Taunts or Local Indie Rock Bands

No Shit Sherlock You Rot A Homo Sez What? Sped! Doy

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Five guesses at the number you’re thinking of right now

37 1 5 10 you’re not thinking of a number

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Five grating things about that chick from Marketing

  1. Freaky French manicure constantly inspected and maintained
  2. Seems to really enjoy saying “Solutions Seminar” over and over
  3. Cell phone’s “Für Elise” ringtone
  4. Thumb ring thought to be quietly boho, perhaps in a T.G.I. Friday’s kind of way
  5. Loves that fucking speakerphone, doesn’t she?

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Five phrases I very rarely use

my nigga bodacious rack tequila poppers fully monetized mental floss

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Five karmic burdens I’ll be burning off for years

I used to underbid other web developers by saying “The Requirements Process? Fuck that! They’re trying to soak you!” (1997) I used to forward things I thought were funny to lots of people via email (1994) I voted for Nader/LaDuke … Continue reading

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Five shitty bands that play the lounge in that hotel near your airport

Paolo Frechetti’s Original “Zodiac” Gravitage Fünk Mechanicz! “New Zodiac,” featuring Rob Volaré and Martin “Mook” Beelman The Feelin’ Fines

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Five donations that, frankly, the food bank has had just about enough of

O’Hurlington’s Beet Majesty in Unrendered Goo: 12-oz. Can Generic-brand 12-Bean Ranchero Puffs with Cornsilk Dip’n Sauce: FunPak™ of 5 Mysterious Lady Friend’s Pork Torquelinas in Brine: 14-oz. can (with attached Brinevelope) “No Fucking Way is This Flan!” (aka N.F.W.I.T.F.®): 12 … Continue reading

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Five terrible names for local retail stores

Pricey McMarkup’s House of Suspicious Deals Hot Fence Electronics Village Kostly Kornerz Chez Ripoffski: A Retailerié Misleadington’s Big Box

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Five good names to call people when you forget their real name

Champ Chief Big Shot Fruity Tex

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Five things and what they should cost

Six pack of domestic beer: $3.00 2-bedroom house: $25,000 Handgun: $20,000 and up Handjob: $5.00 Admission to First-run Movie: $2.00

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Five things to do when you should be looking for a job

Drink coffee Work on Ray Milland impersonation Read advice columns, scoff Water the aloe plant Make lists of five things

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Five things I owe to Michael N., Andrew H., and all the other kind folks who school me when I break my stupid style sheets

Large gift ham in tasteful wicker basket Romantic boatride with Pavarotti (plus one other tenor to be named) Their weight in comfortable athletic shoes from Target™ Semi-nude lap dance from former Senator Bob Dole, optional night of closed-mouth kissing Big … Continue reading

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Five songs to which, in previous lives, I have, inexplicably, slow-danced with a girl

“Hold on Loosely,” by .38 Special “Stairway to Heaven,” by Led Zeppelin “Spirit of Radio,” by Rush “Sister Christian,” by Night Ranger “Don’t Stop Believin’,” by Journey

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Five songs that always make me do that weird, strutting, Mick Jagger chicken dance

“June’s Foreign Spell,” by Spoon “Snowsuit Sound,” by Sloan “Come On, Come On,” by Cheap Trick “Car Radio,” by Spoon “Rocks Off,” by the Rolling Stones

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Five TV themes for which I often create an impromptu interpretive dance

Law & Order The Sopranos Six Feet Under The West Wing Newshour

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Five Somewhat Novel Compulsions I had at one time or another

A morbid fear of closing a cat in a door Uncontrollable counting of patterns of four Repeatedly listening to “Convoy” by C.W. McCall The constant sense that I’d forgotten to wear pants Wondering if I was the only human and … Continue reading

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Five terrible fake names the locals call that one dangerous place outside of town

  1. The Devil’s Handbag
  2. Dead Man’s Meadow
  3. The Widow Encourager
  4. Pointy Spikes Through Your Eyes Junction
  5. Thumbsnatch Cove

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Five requests with regard to my eventual death

If it happens that my death occurred in some public place, there is to be no ersatz memorial created on that location comprised of teddy bears, mylar balloons, or terrible poems written on posterboard in pink Magic Marker™. This is … Continue reading

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Five things that make it somewhat obvious I’m not originally from San Francisco

I dress like a slightly-retarded farm hand I drink Natural Light Beer almost exclusively I still can’t distinguish spoken Cantonese from Mandarin I still say things like “I’m not paying $2000 a month so you can block my driveway, Bub!” … Continue reading

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Five terrible fake titles for those tiny booklets sold in the supermarket check-out line

  1. How Kitties Pray
  2. Sleep Your Carcinoma Away
  3. Healthy Tomorrow…with Tarragon!
  4. Armchair Aerobic Crunch
  5. International Images of Jesus in Bread

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Five favorite branded characters

Pit-Pat Col. Sanders Hamburglar Burger Chef & Jeff Quaker Oats Guy

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Five TV Commercials that Haunted Me as a Child

Commercial for ventriloquist movie, “Magic” Tiny animated Chuck Wagon chased by dog Chanel #5 swimming pool ad Calgon: Ancient Chinese Secret John Cameron Swayze Timex ads

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Five terrible fake names for James Bond movies

  1. No Time for Sundays
  2. Die on Your Own Time
  3. Tumbler of Bullets
  4. Game for Two
  5. Fall Down Faster, Lovely

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Five sports stars I met on May 18, 1979

  1. Bob Trumpy
  2. Steve Garvey
  3. Tommy Lasorda
  4. Ron Cey
  5. Davey Lopes

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Five odd things my hateful stepfather consumed in large quantities

Dutch Masters™ cigars Turkey Salami Tab™ Head Cheese Human souls

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Five celebrities who would really creep me out if I found them sitting in my living room when I got home from the Safeway

Stone Phillips Steve Vai Dr. Phil Trent Lott (pantsless, especially) David Soul

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Five Things Banned by Mr. Marsh, 5th Grade teacher

My novelization of “The Warriors” My grassroots movement to begin an “Animal House”-style fraternity Paper torn from spiral notebooks (“I don’t need any frilly underwear,” he’d creepily declare) My extemporaneous remarks on the principal’s Nordic accent Monkey business

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Five Favorite Movies in Seinfeld

Sack Lunch Rochelle, Rochelle Cry, Cry Again Death Blow Prognosis Negative

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