Five rejected names for a single-serving meal product

April 4th, 2008
  1. Quiet Evenings
  2. Me & the Kitties
  3. Lonesome Bites
  4. Monomunches
  5. Singles…for Life!

Five ways to leverage the mobile thinkosphere

March 19th, 2008
  1. blogmobisodes
  2. webmobinars
  3. telestreamanogisodes
  4. lividmobipostiscussions
  5. netconvermomomobomasations

Five “Web 2.0″ ways to break up with your boyfriend

March 18th, 2008
  1. add unflattering Flickr tag, “Fat asshole with a unibrow”
  2. change Facebook status to “He’s literally dead to me”
  3. web widget counts up days since your last climax (currently: “193″)
  4. share Zoho spreadsheet to split up MySpace friends
  5. decline to participate in Series B round of affection

Five terrible fake astronomical pickup lines

March 13th, 2008
  1. Ever wonder what’s happening under Orion’s belt?
  2. Hop in my van, and I’ll show you something else that’s constantly expanding.
  3. Was Democritus the first one to postulate your mysterious Milky Way?
  4. I’d like to Sagittarius your Pisces, and that’s no Taurus.
  5. How about we go outside and discover Uranus?

Five rejected names for “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazzard

March 6th, 2008
  1. Daniel Poon
  2. Mr. Strange
  3. Steve the Sleeve
  4. Snatch Adams
  5. Ol’ Vag

Five fake names I keep waiting for an opportunity to use

March 6th, 2008
  1. Romana Clay
  2. Rosco Green
  3. Kel Domage
  4. Fanny B. Tender
  5. Farrell Katz

Five cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you

February 12th, 2008
  1. gently enquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster
  2. repeatedly offers to demonstrate “how Blighty squeezes the lemonade”
  3. stands in your front yard, pants-less and swinging a garden hose in lazy figure-eights
  4. makes rapid “milking a cow” gesture while screaming something incoherent about Robert Johnson
  5. drops his semi-erect penis onto your dessert plate

Five more terrible fake reality TV shows

February 4th, 2008
  1. Are You Smarter Than an Ottoman?
  2. Project Segway
  3. Would You Eat This for Money?
  4. America’s Next Top Preclear
  5. Who Wants to Be a Cultural Footnote?

Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!

February 1st, 2008
  1. your Flickr.com photos are still your own (although human faces are now obscured by selected partner company logos)
  2. owing to unavoidable data corruption, all Upcoming.org events must be reinstalled monthly
  3. following upgrade to Vista, clicking del.icio.us links now requires 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB drive space (per link)
  4. Jerry Yang now compelled to “do that funny MC Hammer dance” whenever Ballmer’s meds start wearing off
  5. folksy motto tweaked to “If You Ever Want to See That Pretty Family of Yours Again, You Damned Straight Better Fucking Yahoo!

Five names you can belch

February 1st, 2008
  1. Frank Black
  2. Bob Hodgkins
  3. Barack Obama
  4. Ponce De Leon
  5. John Hodgman

Five ways Angelina Jolie can quickly acquire more children

January 31st, 2008
  1. gestate auxiliary sets of twins in climate-controlled Fendi bags
  2. make Brad build a big-ass gingerbread house
  3. explore viability of controversial “dorsal carriage” (a/k/a “butt fetus”)
  4. surreptitiously cruise Gymboree with mallet and a sack
  5. lay excess eggs in what’s left of Sean Young

Five ways you’re unleashing the power of your blog

January 29th, 2008
  1. tearing the veil away from the morally bankrupt raincheck policy at Marshall’s
  2. “crowdsourcing” the naming of your new unicycle
  3. taking a symbolic day off from blogging to protest the unjust treatment of “some Oriental dude” you read about on Slashdot
  4. daring to name names in the “personal holocaust of customer service” you recently suffered at Fry’s
  5. funny new snapshot of your kitty, “Warrant Officer Ripley,” acting like she’s people

Five terrible fake Sylvester Stallone franchise revivals

January 28th, 2008
  1. Rambo V: Could You Repeat the Specials, Please?
  2. Increasingly Less Over the Top
  3. Tango & Cash II: Which One Am I Again?
  4. F.I.S.T.U.L.A.
  5. Rocky VII: Who Keeps Moving My Medicine?

Five presentation tips for delivering your Internet Manifesto

January 27th, 2008
  1. talk through a vocoder, so maybe people will infer you’re a mean robot
  2. as you address your audience, consider stroking a cat or cleaning your mom’s rifle
  3. display tabular information about your perceived enemies in a large, readable typeface
  4. avoid contractions, so you’ll sound more like Vincent Price
  5. work the cravat

Five terrible fake names for villages in England

January 25th, 2008
  1. Fishpie-on-Porkstocking
  2. Poxham
  3. Monoclesfordington
  4. Mutton Moat Wood
  5. Penishire-on-Derbyhat

Five historical blog posts

January 25th, 2008
  1. Moses: Top 10 Bulletproof Tips for Not Pissing-off The Lord (2 tablets - reg req.)
  2. HOWTO: Some Guy Compares Thee to a Summer Day
  3. Crazy Italian Dude Totally Draws on Pope’s Ceiling (DIGG THIS!!!!)
  4. I CAN HAZ INVISIBLE THUMBSCREWZ? Top 50 LOLInquisiton Macros
  5. BOOBIES - Hot Naked Chick Horses Around Coventry [PICS!]

Five surprising things George Washington Carver made from peanuts

January 25th, 2008
  1. peanut-shaped peanut bowl made of peanut shells
  2. peanut surrey, drawn by two sweet potato horses
  3. Atari 2600
  4. peanut shuriken
  5. Side 2 of Boston’s Third Stage

Five legal concepts I’m pretty sure I first learned from watching The People’s Court

January 25th, 2008
  1. creating a bailment
  2. “meeting of the minds”
  3. in loco parentis
  4. “reasonable expectation of privacy”
  5. compulsory post-trial interview with effeminate scolding man

Five more terrible fake euphemisms for defecating (based on The Godfather series)

December 3rd, 2007
  1. Moving Klingman out
  2. Whacking Sollozzo
  3. Going fishing with Al
  4. Visiting Woltz
  5. Hiring Sophia

Five things I still don’t really understand

October 23rd, 2007
  1. the International Date Line
  2. the Electoral College
  3. how my toilet works
  4. MMORPG
  5. “The Seduction Community”