I almost needed a keyboard replacement after reading parts of this list.  Mainly blogging this as a personal bookmark… 

Merlin Mann continues to post to his list of fives. I've blogged this before, but it keeps on getting funnier. It took me ten minutes to swallow my mouthful of tea while paging through this, because I was worried that I'd choke on the laughter. Someone should give Merlin a job writing for Mad Magazine. This is, character for character, the funniest goddamned page on the net.

Five possible reasons there's a stretch limo parked outside

1. Japanese businessmen are considering a leveraged buyout of the Sunset District
2. Little Laotian man around the corner is secretly a rich, hostile pimp
3. Someone's about to receive a giant, novelty-sized check from Ed McMahon
4. The 85-year-old man next door is about to get a Queer Eye makeover
5. I'm actually Bon Jovi

Five ways I tend to feel after speaking with Sprint's Customer Service

1. Like I was just traded to another inmate for 2 packs of menthol cigarettes
2. Like I've been slapped repeatedly with a half-frozen sturgeon
3. Like I've accidentally just agreed to finish the homework of every kid in my middle school
4. Like somewhere in a big Sprint building, there's a fat man with a monocle and a top hat smoking a cigar while dancing a jig and holding a fat bag of five-dollar bills with my bewildered face on it
5. Very, very unclean

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