Showing posts with label 5ives.com. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5ives.com. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

5ives.com

By Jack Brummet, Blog and website editor


I really miss Merlin's 5ives.com, which has gone dormant again. This was/is one of the funniest sites that ever existed on the web. Check it out and dig back through the archives.

Five cutting-edge greeting cards

1.Mazel Tov on That Reversed Vasectomy!
2.Third Divorce is a Charm, Mom!
3.Your New Boobs Look Large and Super-Hard!
4.Condolences on Your Poorly-Thought-Out Home-Based Business!
5.I’m Minding Your Halitosis Less!

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Five menu items at Silver Spoon Thai that could also be the name of an unsuccessful sex worker

1.Jasmine Rice
2.Ginger Snapper
3.Rainbow Salad
4.Volcano Prawns
5.Pumpkin Curry

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Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels

1.Rash and Rationality
2.Punk and Punctuality
3.Beast and Bestiality
4.Funk and Functionality
5.Fried and Credulous

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Five ways Angelina Jolie can quickly acquire more children

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
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Five ways you’re unleashing the power of your blog

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
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

5ives.com is back!

After a hiatus of about two years, the website 5ives.com is back.  Merlin Mann has a sweet web site with many lists of five. I like lists. Some of my favorites from his earlier run:

Five actors I prefer not to visualize having intercourse
Broderick Crawford
Rondo Hatton
Richard Dawson
Paul Lynde
Curly Joe DeRita

Five people with whom to never start a conversation on MUNI
Needy-looking guy in kilt
Fat man with enormous parrot on his shoulder
Chinese lady quietly trimming her toenails
Stinky guy talking animatedly to fat guy’s parrot
Smirky guy taking numerous phonecam pictures of stinky guy, fat guy, and parrot

Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Minority Whip
discretionary appropriations
filibustering
discharge petition
franking privileges

Five total scams in high school
class rings
cap and gown fees
Who’s Who Among American High School Students
prom
assemblies featuring christian rock bands

Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk
buy domain names
hire an attorney
do lots of file management from the command line
sort out your finances
telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school

Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about
the streets
my bitches
thug life
popping a cap in your ass
my milkshake
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