Monthly Archives: January 2005

Five terrible fake LiveJournal memes

  1. If you had to go through my trash and pick one discarded item to represent how you felt about my butt, what would it be?
  2. If I were a piece of food caught in your teeth, would you pick me out? What kind of food would I be? Would I be delicious even after I’d been trapped between your molars since lunch?
  3. If the two of us were naked in a phone booth and we both had to fart really bad, how would we bring it up? Who would fart first, and would it smell like flowers?
  4. If I were a tumor, where would I be on your body? How long would it be before I metastasized to your liver?
  5. Please post the compliment you think I would most enjoy hearing about myself. Now, do this every morning.

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Five items on which a sticker of Calvin has not, to my knowledge, peed

  1. The Magna Carta
  2. Elvis’ “‘68 Comeback” Special
  3. Eddie Van Halen
  4. St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument
  5. Denny’s™ Grand Slam® Breakfast

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Five terrible fake positions not actually held by Michael Crichton

  1. Fallen arches, while not precisely a medical myth, are largely a creation of ignorant liberal activists (and their spotty data).
  2. Elves are behind most headaches and nearly all cellphone dead zones.
  3. Seat belts cause many more auto fatalities than they prevent.
  4. Mint flavor is actually not refreshing at all.
  5. If you can successfully remove the label from your Michelob bottle—all in one piece—you’ll totally get laid tonight.

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Five inevitabilities I find exhausting

  1. Obsequious chain restaurant waitrons
  2. Any mention of King Tut requires playing the jokey Steve Martin song
  3. The unapologetic shittiness of airport food
  4. “Myanmar,” we must be reminded, was once known as “Burma”
  5. Someone in earshot will say “hella” repeatedly today (and I will cringe reflexively)

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Five things I fear I might do if I were a ten-foot-tall monster with metal claws, laser beam eyes, and razor-sharp fangs

  1. Undertake bloody rampage on the set of The View
  2. Disembowel line-cutters at Walgreens
  3. Devour double-parkers on Taraval Street (and, ironically, the Chinese takeout that doomed them to their fate)
  4. Poke gentle, good-natured fun at less powerful monsters when we meet at social events
  5. Keep library books well past their due date

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Five stories the mainstream media missed last year

  1. My DSL seems to be slowing down pretty bad
  2. Peaches just aren’t as good as they used to be
  3. That one cashier at the Safeway is kind of a dick
  4. People should wear hats more
  5. Coffee is still just so great

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Five terrible fake Anne Geddes photo shoots

  1. Infant slumbers in the sling of a powerful trebuchet
  2. Three napping newborns, juggled by slightly larger fourth baby
  3. Pile of sleeping babies, dressed as pirates, provide ballast for leaky catamaran
  4. Preemie in miniature bifocals used as precious paperweight
  5. Month-old twins nestle in a slowly warming crock pot

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