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- Five menu items at Silver Spoon Thai that could also be the name of an unsuccessful sex worker
- Five terrible fake Mitch Albom books
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- Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels
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- Five records I wish I could have sung backup on
- Five occupations whose uniform I think I’d enjoy wearing
- Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday
- Five unusual Top Chef production crew titles
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- Five cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you
- Five more terrible fake reality TV shows
- Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
- Five names you can belch
- Five ways Angelina Jolie can quickly acquire more children
- Five ways you’re unleashing the power of your blog
- Five terrible fake Sylvester Stallone franchise revivals
- Five presentation tips for delivering your Internet Manifesto
- Five terrible fake names for villages in England
- Five historical blog posts
- Five surprising things George Washington Carver made from peanuts
- Five legal concepts I’m pretty sure I first learned from watching The People’s Court
- Five more terrible fake euphemisms for defecating (based on The Godfather series)
- Five things I still don’t really understand
- Five more Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
- Five pieces of fiction I’d enjoy hearing Wilford Brimley read aloud to me
- Five rejected Spice Girl personalities
- Five phrases I often find disorienting
- Five Senators or Representatives whom I wish would become partners in a law firm (just for the awesome letterhead)
- Five songs I’d love to hear a couple use for the first dance at their wedding reception
- Five products on whose label Rachael Ray will eventually be featured, grinning maniacally
- Five titles you shouldn’t be allowed to give yourself
- Five things you might do with “all that ass”
- Five things of which I will never tire
- Five douchebag power tools
- Five terrible fake reality TV shows
- Five Flickr sets that aren’t driving the long-term traffic you’d hoped for
- Five musical embellishments that should be used in moderation
- Five creatures I would depict interacting with one other if I ran a “Creationism Museum”
- Five songs to which I have a very clear recollection of french kissing in the 1980s
- Five tastes of childhood with which I’ve recently and happily re-acquainted myself
- Five nouns from which it can be difficult to scrub the scent of utter bullshit
- Five Flickr comments left on the latest self-portrait of you staring slightly off-camera with your mouth open
- Five things, besides “your ride,” that you might wish to “pimp”
- Five early 80s albums that are better than you probably remember
- Five songs I’d enjoy hearing Tom Waits cover
- Five recent makebelieve Canadian girlfriends
- Five favorite Hee Haw performers
- Five hip-hop pseudonyms I’ve considered for myself
- Five nouns to which I enjoy prepending an unnecessary definite article
- Five potentially novel new year’s resolutions
- Five nicknames I would find unbearable
- Five favorite words I learned last year
- Five albums I was listening to when I moved to San Francisco (seven years ago today)
- Five ideas I’ve had for family theme restaurants
- Five Halloween safety tips
- Five owners of ambitious combovers
- Five terrible fake pledge-week specials on PBS
- Five phrases you may substitute if you are intimidated by overt swearing
- Five possible signs your congressman thinks your teenaged son is hot
- Five things you did while MySpace was down
- Five groups, apart from “women and children,” who should get to leave a sinking ship first
- Five persons who will eventually appear in every rock documentary
- Five excellent Iron Maiden songs (and what each is ostensibly about)
- Five things I’ll bet can be hard for pirates
- Five people who are much more enjoyable if you imagine them as pro wrestlers
- Five markings I think I’d enjoy having on my grave
- Five TV shows I’ll bet you don’t remember
- Five injustices you bravely suffer
- Five kitchen tools that sound kind of dirty
- Five possible meanings of that Kanji tattoo you can’t read
- Five terrible fake scripts from a notional fourth season of Gilligan’s Island
- Five amazing high-hat parts
- Five things, besides lying, that Shakira’s hips don’t do
- Five terrible fake Spears family parenting lapses
- Five songs I wish would become popular drunken singalongs at sporting events
- Five terrible fake David Blaine endurance stunts
- Five phrases I wish I had occasion to use more often
- Five things you probably don’t need to be carrying all the time
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- Five suggested Flickr tags
- Five periodicals I loved in the 90s
- Five amazing Beatles bridges
- Five ubiquitous anatomical embellishments from which I could use a break
- Five terrible fake Morrissey songs
- Five modifiers you might have intended when you just said “literally”
- Five places where the burnouts would hang out and smoke in junior high
- Five things that make me smile
- Five songs I sometimes listen to on repeat for 20 minutes
- Five composers I’m glad never had to hear their work performed primarily as ear-screeching ringtones
- Five things I currently have no intention of doing
- Five things that aren’t particularly helping my nascent dharma practice
- Five songs I’ve completely obsessed over
- Five terrible fake “Morning Zoo” teams
- Five candidates Madeline has repeatedly vetoed to be “our song”
- Five things I had to keep explaining to the guy at REI
- Five places I’ve had my hair cut
- Five good things to absorb while you’re still young
- Five reasons the terrorists hate us (apart from “our freedom”)
- Five decidedly un-super supergroups
- Five things you can bring along to help make the party all about you
- Five people I’d love to observe trying to have dinner together
- Five more excellent public radio names
- Five works I adore by artists I otherwise don’t care for
- Five people I’m told I impersonate badly
- Five things it’s worth paying a little extra for
- Five notional movies that might not have gone over as well with fundamentalists
- Five ways to get on the del.icio.us home page
- Five terrible fake entrees from the dotcom era
- Five ways your histrionic anti-abortion friend might refer to a fetus
- Five people of whom I confess to being a bit weary
- Five things (besides a television) that you could constantly remind people you won’t use
- Five rules of thumb
- Five more things Pat Robertson needs you to pray on
- Five They Might Be Giants songs I often find myself singing
- Five thoughts on who “they” might be
- Five favorite guitar chords
- Five rules from the NPR drinking game
- Five bands I’m sorry I never got to see live
- Five terrible fake non-fiction bestsellers
- Five favorite new wave drummers
- Five terrible fake secrets about Seals & Crofts
- Five things I have read repeatedly in the bathroom
- Five beverages I haven’t drunk very often since college
- Five Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
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Five badass jewish men
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Abraham
- Jon Stewart
- Sol Star
- Ira Kaplan
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Five terrible fake Dickens characters
- Henrietta Troubleknickers
- Jackson Splotch
- Prof. Wiggenstodgy
- Pennyfarthing Mushroomwater
- Felch Cracksbottom
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Five things that killed your party
- six Rick Wakeman CDs does not qualify as a “party shuffle”
- half-hour monologue on the difference between <abbr> and <acronym>
- quarter-inch nacho cheese skin
- impromptu one-man performance of “The Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’”
- sole female guest left at 8:10
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Five excellent words
- monkey
- robot
- pants
- sandwich
- bulbous
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Five revelations from Rene Descartes’ LiveJournal
- He used to be into Emo, but now he thinks it’s “kind of gay”
- He’s thinking of getting a job next summer
- He totally blew the math quiz on Friday
- He’s frenched three times now (and one time got a little tit)
- He’s using a Bob Marley icon some dude made
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Five things TSA says it’s officially okay for you to carry-on
- Diabetes-Related Supplies/Equipment
- Eyelash Curlers
- Toy Transformer Robots
- Eyeglass Repair Tools
- Toy Weapons (if not realistic replicas)
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Five terrible fake names for your new massage parlor
- Jackin’ Jill’s
- Please Release Me
- 54U
- Handjobwerks
- Messy Manor
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Five things I’d ask every Supreme Court nominee if I sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee
- If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?
- Have you ever been spanked erotically by someone who was not your current legal spouse? Just yes or no, please.
- Nominee, do you regard these slacks as accentuating my basket in an un-senatorial fashion?
- Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about…your mother.
- Kindly rise, and sing the 1979 hit, The Piña Colada Song, also known as Escape.
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Five things I’m really starting to miss
- Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show
- two (and only two) kinds of Coke
- use of sentence case by college-educated adults
- Burger Chef Fun Meals
- Bill Clinton
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Five terrible fake names for your new Irish pub
- O’Connor O’Connor’s
- The Chunky Emerald Yawn
- Tipsy McShamrock’s
- Casey O’Familywrecker’s
- Punchin’ Pete’s Place
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Five excellent New Orleans icons
- Ignatius J. Reilly
- Louis Armstrong
- David Ferrie
- Alex Chilton
- Stanley Kowalski
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Five pet peeves about eating out with Ayn Rand
- claims moral right to tour kitchen, personally choosing objectively best pot pie available
- even in large parties, always demands own itemized check
- loudly proclaims that you could have had that last yeast roll if you weren’t so damned weak
- only tips 3% (except for what she terms “heroic” service)
- always farting and blaming it on “irrational” woman at next table
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Five (presumably) untapped topics of slash fiction
- Warren G. Harding/Albert Fall
- Fred Flintstone/The Great Gazoo
- Catherine the Great/Mr. Ed
- Mr. Roper/Mr. Furley
- Bono/Bono
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Five California cities that sound kind of dirty
- Coalinga
- Butte Valley
- Chilcoot
- Fawnskin
- La Conchita
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Five terrible fake ideas for a retro TV comeback
- James at 42
- Joanie Swears Out a Restraining Order on Chachi
- Saved by the Bell: The Middle-Management Years
- Holmes and Yo-Yo Babies
- Charlie’s Caregivers
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Five terrible fake 60’s dance crazes
- The Chili Dog
- The Zoroaster
- The Menarche
- The Eastern Front
- The McNamara
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Five country singers whose name I’d consider giving to a beloved family pet
- Wynette
- Maybelle
- Monroe
- Louvin
- Twitty
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Five excellent TV girlfriends
- Farrah Fawcett-Majors (1976)
- Jill Whelan (1979)
- Martha Quinn (1982)
- Markie Post (1985)
- Lauren Graham (2003)
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Five modest lifestyle adjustments at Neverland Ranch
- overnight guests must now provide own sheets and towels
- giraffes and chimps begin hawking Grit door-to-door
- Continental Breakfast downgraded to a can of Hawaiian Punch and some cab fare
- Ferris Wheel and railroad to close early on federal holidays
- “Jesus Juice” now prepared with less costly well-brand vodka
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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS
- Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor
- Jim Lehrer asked to roll his eyes dramatically whenever he mentions Democrats, women, or “the black”
- vintage Julia Child episodes re-edited to obscure left wings of all fowl
- Arthur and Barney pulled aside, told flatly to “butch it up”
- Frontline goes on hiatus; replaced by ”Let’s Shoot Crossbows!” with Ted Nugent
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Five favorite power pop songs right now
- The Good in Everyone – Sloan
- Both Sides Now – Jason Falkner
- All God’s Children – The Finn Brothers
- You’re My Favorite Waste of Time – Marshall Crenshaw
- No Matter What – Badfinger
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Five things I wish I could have talked out of my ass about on a weblog when I was in college
- Roland Barthes’ S/Z
- The Reagan Administration: What the eff?
- Green marks a continuing decline for R.E.M.
- goth kid in next room keeps playing that damned Ministry 12″
- cafeteria’s policy on soda refills = Florida’s modern Apartheid
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Five things people I knew in high school swore they’d do on their 18th birthday
- change first name to “Porsche Rose”
- stalk Prince
- smoke the world’s fattest joint—right in front of the Dean of Boys
- get tattoo of the cover of Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast across entire back
- just chill out and shit
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Five places they seem to keep finding semen on “C.S.I.”
- toilet handle
- victim’s bed
- steering wheel
- night gown
- assailant’s penis
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Five favorite singers (who kind of don’t really sing)
- Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
- Mark E. Smith (The Fall)
- Damaged-era Henry Rollins (Black Flag)
- Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground)
- Rex Harrison
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Five fake urban myths I’d like you to earnestly share with your friends and colleagues
- Computer hackers can now steal anyone’s underpants using their own PC
- “Starving” people in Africa spend most of their aid money on big-screen TVs, pole-dances, and perfectly good food that they just throw away
- There is actually no “Norway”—it was invented in the mid-’40s as part of an MGM publicity stunt
- Studies show there’s more feces on your doorknob than there is in an actual pile of feces
- There’s a little girl in Arkansas named Ashley-Marie who has full-blown entitilitis, and she’s praying that everyone in America will breakdance for her at noon next Monday
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Five things I’d like to see engraved on little rubber bracelets
- Nap Strong
- My Other Bracelet is Fighting Colon Cancer
- America: Shut Thy Pie Hole
- Kiss Me, I’m Trendy
- Please Watch Arrested Development
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Five favorite spoodely-spoodely guitar solos
- “Eruption” – Van Halen (Eddie Van Halen)
- “Hot on Your Heels” – Steeler (Yngwie Malmsteen)
- “Stairway to Heaven” – Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)
- “One” – Metallica (Kirk Hammett)
- “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen (Brian May)
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Five words Madeline would just as soon I stopped using for a while
- orthogonal
- notional
- sciolist
- functionality
- janky
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Five ways to save The O.C.
- have Ryan start punching preppies at parties again
- more Julie Cooper in fuzzy track suits
- new haircuts for everybody
- Bring back Jimmy Cooper
- keep not having Oliver on
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