Take Five

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:

1. The MC5 (for "Kick Out The Jams" alone)
2. The Minus Five (You really should be listening to these guys)
3. The Jackson 5 (It's a shame Tito ended up so bizarre)
4. Ben Folds Five (At one time - before he went all Billy Joel on us)
5. The Dave Clark 5 (Named for the drummer!)

Bottom 5 "Five" Bands:

1. Five For Fighting
2. Jump 5
3. Maroon 5
4. The 5th Dimension
5. 5ive (just for the corny name)

Top 5 Baseball Players To Wear 5:

1. Joe DiMaggio
2. Johnny Bench
3. Brooks Robinson
4. George Brett
5. Hank Greenberg

Top 5 Dumbest Sounding "Five" Movies:

1. Count Five And Die ("Okay, um, one, two, three, four, four and a quarter, four and a half...")
2. The Beast With Five Fingers (a.k.a. When The Adams Family's Thing Goes Bad)
3. The Five Pound Man ("Man, Steve, I think you can get off that Atkins thing already")
4. Five Giants From Texas (And yet I'm guessing they're all mental midgets)
5. 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:

1. 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)
2. Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene by Louise Bates Ames (Cause that's just a big fat lie)
3. Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate by Gary Chapman (Can't...stop...gag...reflex)
4. My First Five Years: A Record of Early Childhood by Anne Geddes (Someone make her stop, please)
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (While you're at it, make him stop, too)

Comments

[Sam]

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.

[Jon]

Ah, but let us not forget the Count Five...."Psychotic Reaction"....

[Janie]

My friend, Marie, missed being born on 5/5/55 by mere hours...

[Karen]

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!

[Donna]

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.

[Dee]

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".

[Mark]

The above snarky comments were left by me, not the missus.

Damn personal info saver.

[Donna]

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