Monthly Archives: October 2005

Five rules of thumb

The stupider your ringtone, the longer it will take you to answer your phone. The twin miracles of childbirth and pet ownership render you unable to share one photo of anything. If your vanity license plate makes any reference to … Continue reading

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Five more things Pat Robertson needs you to pray on

that he might enjoy one blessed Matlock without needing to get up and make water immediate death of that harlot Shoney’s waitress with the filthy mouth on her ability to recall where he’s left his dag-goned pills neighbor kid with … Continue reading

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Five They Might Be Giants songs I often find myself singing

Dr. Worm Man, It’s So Loud in Here They’ll Need a Crane Birdhouse in your Soul Don’t Let’s Start

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Five thoughts on who “they” might be

Wall Street fat cats mainstream media (MSM) those bastard do-nothings back in DC Hollywood liberals New York jewry

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Five favorite guitar chords

D/F# G/D E5 Dsus4 Fmaj7

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Five rules from the NPR drinking game

  1. Nina Totenberg reads a transcript (1 drink)
  2. oboe is heard (2 drinks)
  3. Malcolm Gladwell reference (1 drink)
  4. Scott Simon cracks himself up (1 drink)
  5. Daniel Schorr mentions Watergate (3 drinks)
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Five bands I’m sorry I never got to see live

Hüsker Dü (ca. 1985) Joy Division (ca. 1979) The Comedian Harmonists (ca. 1933) The Benny Goodman Orchestra (ca. 1938) 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
  2. Two Wrongs = Five Rights: Freakonomics & the New Ethics of Contradiction
  3. Doy: Why “Dumb” Might Be Better After All
  4. “No, No! You’re Still Doing it Wrong!”: Why America Won’t Abandon Its Outmoded Logical Frameworks and Completely Embrace Non-Fiction Bestsellers
  5. “What’s the Matter with Pie?”: Fallacies of “Modern” “Nutrition”
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Five favorite new wave drummers

Stewart Copeland (The Police) Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons) Cedric Sharpley (Gary Numan) Terry Williams (Rockpile) Clem Burke (Blondie)

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Five terrible fake secrets about Seals & Crofts

  1. Summer Breeze actually made them both a little edgy
  2. In industry circles, Seals was rumored to have been behind an abortive plot to whack Bread, America, and Poco
  3. One hazy night in 1978, Croft reportedly ate a tray of lasagna all by himself
  4. Diamond Girl didn’t really shine so much as just occasionally glisten with perspiration
  5. 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

Lucky Magazine subscription card ibuprophen bottle that one New York Times Magazine ingredients of Crest shampoo instructions

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Five beverages I haven’t drunk very often since college

Magnum Brass Monkey Red, White, and Blue Fisher ale well-brand Scotch

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Five Halloween costumes your sorority sisters are considering

  1. Sexy Nurse
  2. Sexy Cop
  3. Sexy Alien
  4. Sexy Hitler
  5. Sexy Doris Roberts
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