Top Five sent in by Salient readers
By | 24 Mar, 2008
See how they’re so much better than what we write?
Annoying questions to ask your religious elder:
1. If there’s life on other planets, are there aliens in heaven too?
2. Can the spirits of your dead relatives watch you when you go to the loo?
3. Is it okay to laugh at people in hell when you’re up in heaven?
4. Wouldn’t eternal bliss get boring after a while?
5. If I said a really, really good joke, would it make God laugh?
Annoying questions to ask your teacher:
1. How do we know the sky isn’t really green and we’re just all colourblind?
2. Could you repeat the question? I wasn’t listening
3. Do amoebas feel love?
4. Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
5. How’s the diet going?
Reasons to watch TV:
1. The hot TV3 weather girl
2. Hoping they’ll play Goodnight Kiwi
3. Peter Griffin
4. Infotainment!
5. Chuck Norris infomercials
Lies parents tell their kids:
1. I’m only doing this for your own good
2. If you tell me, I promise I won’t get mad
3. Someday you’ll thank me for this
4. You’ll be sorry
5. I’m only gonna say this once
Useful phobias to fake:
1. Hypnotophobia – Fear of making your bed
2. Tribodontophobia - Fear of brushing your teeth
3. Macrophobia – Fear of long waits
4. Hypengyophobia - Fear of responsibility
5. and *drumroll* … Sophophobia - The fear of learning
Here we go, a top 5 to help you out seen as your too fucked off…meths was it?
Top reasons why vic is shit:
1. That fucken hill
2. That other fucken hill
3. All the other little hills
4. We pay for internet
5. Too many fucken indie kids who dress the same!
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Comments
Katewad
March 28th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Top 5 reasons this top 5 list was a little bit terrible:
1) 4 out of the 6 lists were blatently copied from the book ‘Bart Simpsons Guide to Life’ published in 1993 by Matt Groening- seriously! Check it
2) Jokes based around childlike innocence/children are only funny if they die, swear or have paedophiles in them
3) One of the only 2 remaining lists that wasnt stolen from mediocre 90’s pop literature was about TV. I mean TV? Seriously?? Thats the best we can do?!
4) its time to get over mocking people for dressing differently to you- indies, emos, bogans, first years WHATEVER! lets unite and mock groups that deserve our hate- like paedophiles! Or jews!
5) Lets face it kids- when the only ‘Top 5′ list that makes people laugh is about hills and is published on a scruched piece of notebook paper, and uses the word ‘fucken’ with comic perfection, we really have got a problem
i actually expected more out of vic students to be honest…
got satire?
Geoff
March 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Agreed.
Here’s some.
Top 5 Chess Moves:
1. Clinton’s Opening
2. Knight’s Tail
3. Ledger’s Leap
4. Bishop’s Thrust
5. Queen’s Sache
Top 5 Addictions to be Ashamed of:
1. Shoes
2. Plaque
3. Arthritis
4. Zucchini
5. Philanthropy
Top 5 Lost Elements
1. Treeumium
2. Quimon
3. Pandemonium
4. Aether
5. Elementium
Top 5 Not-so-holy Sites:
1. The East Wall
2. Becca
3. Gnanalingam’s Taint
4. Neverland
5. Crucifixes ‘R Us
Top 5 Alternatives to Paper Money
1. Fingernail Bits
2. Bosons
3. Punani
4. Moon Rocks
5. Polymer
Top 5 Band Names
1. 32 Pesos
2. Gem Squash
3. Dance Dance Smile Fun
4. Free Beer
5. The Vulvateers
Top 5 Words with a certain je ne sais quios
1. Pelican
2. Bicep
3. Parsimonius
4. Macadamia
5. Forfex
Top 5 Things to Blame Global Warming for:
1. Your Smelly Pits
2. Your Unsightly Dandruff
3. This Awful Heat
4. This Fucking Cold
5. This Pleasant, Balmy Weather
Tanooki
March 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
These are from an email I got but oh well:
Top 5 Things That Are Difficult to Say When Drunk:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Anaesthetist
4. Cinnamon
5. Chrysanthemum
Top 5 Things That Are Very Difficult to Say When Drunk:
1. Specificity
2. Rhipidistian-Amphibian Transition
3. Anti-constitutionalistically
4. Transubstantiate
5. Sphygmomanometer
Top 5 Things That Are Impossible to Say When Drunk:
1. Where is the nearest toilet? I refuse to hurl in the street.
2. Nope, no more booze for me.
3. I’m not interested in fighting you.
4. Oh, I couldn’t. No one wants to hear me sing karaoke
5. Thanks, but I don’t want to have sex.
Kristina
March 31st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Quote: “4 out of the 6 lists were blatently copied from the book ‘Bart Simpsons Guide to Life’ published in 1993 by Matt Groening- seriously! Check it”
I know! I have that book. It’s outright plagiarism - which is apparently worse than murder in university circles. I demand they be publicly named and shamed!
Tristan Egarr
March 31st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
yeah a letter this week will name and shame them….
btw some of Geoff and Tanooki’s lists are likely to appear this week. We’ll open this section up regularly to become reader-contributed much like the letters. We’ll probably just add one list ourselves per week and get the rest from you guys. This is because we are lazy.
Brunswick
April 1st, 2008 at 1:29 am
I thought that some of those lists looked familiar…
Don’t blow any more Top 5s in the comments! Send them straight to Tristan!
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