Subject: Top5 - 10/8/04 - Life Without Numbers From: TopFive Date: 10/09/2004 01:15 AM To: Top5@topica.com Reply-to: topfive@topfive.com ================================================================== T H E T O P F I V E L I S T Try our new Mandarin avocado smoothie! ================================================================== October 8, 2004 NOTE FROM CHRIS: Anthropologists have discovered an otherwise-intelligent tribe in Brazil whose language has no words for numbers. The Top 5 Ways Our Lives Would Be Different Without Numbers 5> You have this nagging feeling that there should be a simpler way to describe to your hooker the concept of mutual, simultaneous oral sex. 4> You never know how much beer you're going to get in that N-pack. 3> The Jackson Five would be known as "Fistful of Jacksons." 2> Instead of binary code, computers use "monkey head-no monkey head" code. and Topfive.com's Number 1 Way Our Lives Would Be Different Without Numbers... 1> Sammy Hagar just can't drive at all. Join ClubTop5 to see the whole list: http://www.topfive.com/html/clubtop5.shtml ================================================================== Today's Classic Top5: Reasons It's Better to Shop Online Read it on our website: http://www.topfive.com To subscribe: Top5Classic-subscribe@topica.com ================================================================== Rumination of the Day I think the most humiliating part about being sent off to fat camp as a kid was being reduced to sitting around the fire roasting s'lesses. (Brad Simanek) To subscribe to Ruminations: ruminations-subscribe@topica.com ================================================================== Selected from 155 submissions from 56 contributors. Today's Top 5 List authors are: ------------------------------------------------------------------ John J. Brassil, Nashville, TN -- 1 (5th #1) Andrew Thomas, Shrewsbury, MA -- 2 Dave Wesley, Pleasant Hill, CA -- 3 (Hall of Famer) Elliott Schiff, Allentown, PA -- 4 Kim Moser, New York, NY -- 5 (Hall of Famer) Chuck Sawyer, Rochester, NY -- 5 Sandra Hull, Arlington, VA -- List moderator Donald Junter, New Haven, CT -- Banner Tag Danny Gallagher, Tyler, TX -- Runner Up list name Carl Knorr, Devo City, OH -- Honorable Mention list name Chris White, Los Angeles, CA -- List owner/editor Steve Miller Band, San Francisco, CA -- Ambience Ambience explained: http://www.topfive.com/arcs_am/am100804.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Absolute Zeroes" and "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Sux..." The Runners Up and Honorable Mention submissions The Runners Up and Honorable Mention submissions for today's list can be found on our website: http://www.topfive.com ================================================================== [ T H E T O P F I V E L I S T ] [TOPFIVE -- The Web's Best Original Humor http://www.topfive.com] [----------------------------------------------------------------] The Top 5 List (original lists) top5-subscribe@topica.com Top5 Classic (greatest hits) top5classic-subscribe@topica.com Ruminations (odd thoughts) ruminations-subscribe@topica.com ================================================================== [ Copyright 2004 by Chris White All rights reserved. ] [ Do not forward, publish, broadcast, or use in any manner ] [ without crediting "The Top 5 List at www.topfive.com" ] ================================================================== [ To unsubscribe: Send mail to Top5-unsubscribe@topica.com ] [ To bitch at the owner: chris@topfive.com ] [ http://www.topfive.com ] ================================================================== Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Unemployment on the rise? Answer and Win! http://click.topica.com/caacHNhclvXASa67KL9f/PermissionData ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: emailaddress@redacted EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?clvXAS.a67KL9.ZGVubmlz Or send an email to: Top5-unsubscribe@topica.com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------