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- Five favorite guitar chords
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- 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
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- Five Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Five rules of thumb
1. The stupider your ringtone, the longer it will take you to answer your phone. 1. The twin miracles of childbirth and pet ownership render you unable to share _one_ photo of anything. 1. If your vanity license plate makes … Continue reading
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Five more things Pat Robertson needs you to pray on
1. that he might enjoy one blessed _Matlock_ without needing to get up and make water 1. immediate death of that harlot Shoney’s waitress with the filthy mouth on her 1. ability to recall where he’s left his dag-goned pills … Continue reading
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Five They Might Be Giants songs I often find myself singing
1. Dr. Worm 1. Man, It’s So Loud in Here 1. They’ll Need a Crane 1. Birdhouse in your Soul 1. Don’t Let’s Start
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Five thoughts on who “they” might be
1. Wall Street fat cats 1. mainstream media (MSM) 1. those bastard do-nothings back in DC 1. Hollywood liberals 1. New York jewry
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Five favorite guitar chords
1. D/F# 2. G/D 3. E5 4. Dsus4 5. Fmaj7
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Five rules from the NPR drinking game
1. Nina Totenberg reads a transcript (1 drink)
1. oboe is heard (2 drinks)
1. Malcolm Gladwell reference (1 drink)
1. Scott Simon cracks himself up (1 drink)
1. Daniel Schorr mentions Watergate (3 drinks)
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Five bands I’m sorry I never got to see live
1. Hüsker Dü (ca. 1985) 1. Joy Division (ca. 1979) 1. The Comedian Harmonists (ca. 1933) 1. The Benny Goodman Orchestra (ca. 1938) 1. Talking Heads (ca. 1981)
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Five terrible fake non-fiction bestsellers
1. Glimpse: Judge a Book by Just a Tiny Portion of Its Cover
1. Two Wrongs = Five Rights: Freakonomics & the New Ethics of Contradiction
1. Doy: Why “Dumb” Might Be Better After All
1. “No, No! You’re Still Doing it Wrong!”: Why America Won’t Abandon Its Outmoded Logical Frameworks and Completely Embrace Non-Fiction Bestsellers
1. “What’s the Matter with Pie?”: Fallacies of “Modern” “Nutrition”
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Five favorite new wave drummers
1. Stewart Copeland (The Police) 1. Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons) 1. Cedric Sharpley (Gary Numan) 1. Terry Williams (Rockpile) 1. Clem Burke (Blondie)
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Five terrible fake secrets about Seals & Crofts
1. Summer Breeze actually made them both a little edgy
1. In industry circles, Seals was rumored to have been behind an abortive plot to whack Bread, America, _and_ Poco
1. One hazy night in 1978, Croft reportedly ate a tray of lasagna all by himself
1. Diamond Girl didn’t really shine so much as just occasionally glisten with perspiration
1. For the last couple years there, Croft was carrying Seals like a baby
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Five things I have read repeatedly in the bathroom
1. _Lucky Magazine_ subscription card 1. ibuprophen bottle 1. that one _New York Times Magazine_ 1. ingredients of _Crest_ 1. shampoo instructions
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Five beverages I haven’t drunk very often since college
1. Magnum 1. Brass Monkey 1. Red, White, and Blue 1. Fisher ale 1. well-brand Scotch
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Five Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering
- Sexy Nurse
- Sexy Cop
- Sexy Alien
- Sexy Hitler
- Sexy Doris Roberts
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