In addition to being Cinco de Mayo, today is also 05/05/05. And we all know what a geek I am when it comes to weird dates.
So to celebrate this unique date, I have compiled five lists of five things having to do with five.
Top 5 "Five" Bands:
- The MC5 (for "Kick Out The Jams" alone)
- The Minus Five (You really should be listening to these guys)
- The Jackson 5 (It's a shame Tito ended up so bizarre)
- Ben Folds Five (At one time - before he went all Billy Joel on us)
- The Dave Clark 5 (Named for the drummer!)
Bottom 5 "Five" Bands:
- Five For Fighting
- Jump 5
- Maroon 5
- The 5th Dimension
- 5ive (just for the corny name)
Top 5 Baseball Players To Wear 5:
- Joe DiMaggio
- Johnny Bench
- Brooks Robinson
- George Brett
- Hank Greenberg
Top 5 Dumbest Sounding "Five" Movies:
- Count Five And Die ("Okay, um, one, two, three, four, four and a quarter, four and a half...")
- The Beast With Five Fingers (a.k.a. When The Adams Family's Thing Goes Bad)
- The Five Pound Man ("Man, Steve, I think you can get off that Atkins thing already")
- Five Giants From Texas (And yet I'm guessing they're all mental midgets)
- Went To Coney Island On A Mission From God...Be Back By Five (Starred John Cryer. Hey John, there's no need to rush back on my account.)
5 "Five" Books You Couldn't Pay Me To Read:
- Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship by John Gray (Dude, enough already with the Mars and the Venus, we got it the first twenty times)
- Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene by Louise Bates Ames (Cause that's just a big fat lie)
- Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate by Gary Chapman (Can't...stop...gag...reflex)
- My First Five Years: A Record of Early Childhood by Anne Geddes (Someone make her stop, please)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (While you're at it, make him stop, too)
ahhh, i love the books. i'm embarrassed to admit that i read mitch albom's book and it was sickly sweet to the point of nausea.
Posted by: Sam | 2005.05.06 at 12:33 AM
Ah, but let us not forget the Count Five...."Psychotic Reaction"....
Posted by: Jon | 2005.05.06 at 10:17 AM
My friend, Marie, missed being born on 5/5/55 by mere hours...
Posted by: Janie | 2005.05.06 at 12:49 PM
I'm a nerd about dates too. Yesterday found me calculating what amazing event might be occurring in my family on 11/11/11 so I can throw a huge party with that date printed on the invitations!
Posted by: Karen | 2005.05.06 at 01:44 PM
I text messaged Megan at school telling her it was 5/5/05. She texted me back to let me know that I'm lame.
Posted by: Donna | 2005.05.06 at 10:42 PM
Sam - Mitch will pay for those sickly sweet books when he gets to heaven and finds out he has to spend his eternity of Tuesdays with Morrie.
Jon - A comment like that cries out for a mp3 sample. My son's first communion was today and the pew our family was assigned was "Mary's side, Center aisle, row 5" - abbreviated MC-5. Eeire.
Janie - I missed being born on 6/6/66 by mere years.
Karen - 11/11/11 will be Veteran's Day, does that help your planning any?
Donna - Perhaps the lameness came from not from the date info, but from the way you insist on ending your IM messages "l8r g8r".
Posted by: Dee | 2005.05.07 at 09:43 PM
The above snarky comments were left by me, not the missus.
Damn personal info saver.
Posted by: Mark | 2005.05.07 at 10:47 PM
LOL my kids know I'm mad cool. Although for some reason they've forbidden me from using the term mad anything. Probably stemming from the unfortunate incident of when I said I had to go to the bathroom mad bad because my bladder was mad full......l8r
Posted by: Donna | 2005.05.08 at 12:27 AM