Name 5.

Manos Hands of Fate - Classic bad movie.
Hoodwinked - Kids' movie; I fell asleep.
Draft Day - Football movie that just made no sense.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Meh to the Nth degree.
Liquid Sky - Dear Lord, it's horrible. Promise me you'll never see it.

List five of your favorite movies.

Lawrence of Arabia
The Right Stuff
The Magnificent Ambersons
A Woman Under The Influence (or Gator)
Blue Velvet

There are five famous movies you have never got around to seeing. List them.

Schindler's List
Fight Club
Goodfellas
City of God
American History X

Jizzel, I just saw Blue Velvet again, for only the second time since it came out, a month or so ago! Still holds up well. A creepy masterpiece.

Name five suitable names for an English butler.

James
Wentworth
Kensington
Chesterfield
Davenport

List five good names for a maid

I'm aghast at your last list, EH! Well, I only saw AmHistX semi-recently just killing time, and I never saw SchindList, and only might have seen CityGod (is that the one with Constantine and stuff? Cause a movization of the Aquinas book would be cool, but I don't think so. But *Goodfellas*? OK, *Fight Club* I only saw like six years after it came out, but still.

And, yes, *BV* *does* hold up! Goddam right! Fuck Heinekin.

sorry for the font size -- put your glasses on, already, gramps! I was compelled to look up....CityGod....that won a bunch of awards and shit. I was thinking of *Kingdom of Heaven*, which was all right, I guess. So, no longer that aghast, since I haven't seen 2 out of 5 of your list either. Anyway, carry on. Obsessive addendum, OUT!

I just looked down the IMDb.com Top 250 list, and named the five highest-rated flicks I hadn't seen... and perhaps never will.

Five good names for a maid:

Claudette
Philippa
Helene
Brigitte
Veronique

Because of course she has to be young, curvy, eager to please and French. Duh.

Name five kinds of employees you will probably never have.

Tweaker
Glamour-tatoo
Glamorous-piercing
Dumbass
Fashion-people

Name five jobs that don't involve being a hired-gun middle-man that are good

i didn't say FRENCH maids! HFS! Wow. What about Molly and Bridget and Tricia and so forth! You watched *Clue too many times!

I only saw Clue once, so that can't be it. I just like the concept of sexy French maids. :: shrugs ::

Name five jobs that don't involve being a hired-gun middle-man that are good

Architect
Lawyer
Doctor
Author
Scientist

Name five things never seen in any version of Star Trek

Dr Carol Marcus getting her pants off
What? See number one.
Rich, cordoba leather unveiled.
The cooking, and stuff.
Denny Crane.

List five special moments you will never experience

My 300th birthday
Being seduced by a trio of French maids
Kissing my 30th grandchild
Setting foot on Pluto
Sending a PM to the millionth Mellophant member

Mind you, some of these things are remotely possible....

List five particularly lame stocking-stuffers

A handful of loose, unwrapped hard candies.
A few golf pencils
A toy mouse made of rubber
A few unpleasant polaroids
A porno for a different gender

Name five ways of describing weekends, in general

boring
fantastic
interesting
laid-back
Velco-riffic

Name five as-yet-unknown uses for Velcro

Moustache hair-removal for women
Back hair-removal for men (and women -- trust me, I've seen it, and felt it, actually, in the dark)
(hook side) -- eyeglass scratch-remover
Flea circus golf course astroturf
Flea circus football astroturf

Name five awesome hobbies that don't interest you

Golf
Bungee-jumping
Jogging
Dog breeding
Collecting recordings of pre-1950 Bolivian sheepherding calls

Name five good reasons to visit Bolivia.

(i) fancy hats
(ii) fried guinea pigs
(iii) mountains
(iv) indians
(v) close to other good nations

Name five good facts about South America

Military rulers much less common now
Everyone speaks Spanish except those damn Brazilians
Amazon River is just amazing
Generally friendly to the U.S.
Argentines so cute when they insist the Falklands, er, Malvinas belong to them

Five excuses the Argentines have for not actually possessing the Falklands

Too busy eating BBQ
Some cows got loose
Too big a country, too small a leader
English are really tough, not
Thatcher wears army boots

The five least memorable events of the 1980s

George H.W. Bush wins Republican nomination in 1988
Wham! breaks up
Reagan's colonoscopy
Johnny Carson's eight millionth show
Diff'rent Strokes cancelled

Five memorable events, 1901-10

Hilbert's program [eta meant to say the problems, not his philosophical concerns] [etta i see those were 1900 at that conference -- but don't nitpick on Ehusserl's *LU* -- those were in two parts, which is why they're usually called in-line *Husserl, 1900/1901*]
EdmHuss's *Logical Investigations* published.
Death of McKinley
Beginning of the rise of the automobile
Flying machines! That worked!

Five good reasons to be slightly zen with being super-pissed at a blood relative/friend

This, too, shall pass
Hey, you might outlive him
It's not the end of the world, after all
You've probably done something to upset him/her, too, at one time or another
To err is human; to forgive, divine; to moo, bovine

Five memorable events, 1910-20

OK, we can stick with the history theme.

The Great War
Wittgenstein's *Tractatus*
Proust got real, yo
Austria-Hungary and the end of an empire
Lvov-Warsaw logicians got real, yo

Five facts about the US Civi War that the average person doesn't know

I'm a huge Civil War buff!

George Dewey, hero of the Spanish-American War, was a young naval officer during the Civil War.
The Confederacy did not lay a single mile of new railroad track during the entire war; they had a hard enough time maintaining the railroads they had.
The Confederate charge at the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. in Nov. 1864 involved more troops, covered more ground and took longer than Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, Pa. in July 1863, but remains much less well-known today.
U.S. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, was born in Cadiz, Spain to expatriate American parents.
The house in which Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Va., was disassembled after the war and re-erected during the Great Depression.

Name five memorable events, 1920-30

Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Jazz Singer
Fatty Arbunkle Scandal
Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb murder trial, the Crime of the century until the Lindbergh kidnapping baby. Also the inspiration for the classic movie "The Rope"
The Scopes Monkey Trial (staged by the way, staged better in Inherit the Wind ;) )

Name 5 Memorable events of 1900 to 1909


PS: 2 other good and related one that ended up bigger than some of the above:
Penicillin was discovered and pre-sliced bread was invented.

Theodore Roosevelt became President
Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk
Death of Queen Victoria
Rotary Intl. is founded
Great White Fleet circled the globe

Name five memorable events, 1930-40

Germany -- bad stuff.
Austria -- also bad stuff, because of Germany.
EdmHusserl died a failed, betrayed man at the end of the decade.
Those were some of the glory years for Pound's *Cantos*.
Shameful years for international modernist collectives, like Surrealists and so forth.

Name five good works of prose fiction or verse, 1930-1940

Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
To Have and Have Not
Death in the Afternoon
Absalom, Absalom

Name five memorable events, 1940-50

Pearl Harbor
Japanese war crimes began against the West
Quite a few well-known scholars were born in this decade
Bombing the shit of places with nukes iron bombs
Hollywood recovered from it's interrupted golden decade (the 1930s) with some aplomb

Name five reasons to read stuff about things

Self-improvement
Broaden your fields of knowledge
Do better in trivia games
Impress the chicks
Get that bastard Trebek's job when he finally leaves

Name five memorable events, 1950-60

Orson Welles has his last hurrah as a film-maker who makes movies.
Kruschev and the shoe-banging thing
Ike!
Macarthur and japan.
Korea.

Name five things most people don't like about summers in the US

Heat
Humidity
Traffic
Kids around all the time
Crowds

Name 5 losing VP candidates

Ferraro
Quayle
Spiro
Mondale
Lieberman

Name 5 reasons some people dislike children

(Actually, Spiro Agnew won both his races as VP - 1968 and 1972. He lost in being forced from office, I suppose).

noisy
bratty
selfish
clumsy
clingy

Name 5 reasons some people love children

They say funny things
They like to give high-fives
They copy stuff you do
They are unreasonably impressed by card tricks
They're just funny

Name five good reasons to avoid the sun like the plague

Sunburn
Skin cancer
The warning that old gypsy woman gave you in 1977
Burn your corneas out if you look right at it
Don't want it to get a big ego

Name five things you'd take on a mission to the Sun

All of the annoying children.
Some vitamins.
Rain water -- or distilled water.
Prophylactics.
Cyanide capsules.

Name five things the average person would remember from a Kirk Douglas movie

His chin
An extra wearing a wristwatch in Spartacus
Manipulating but not sleeping with Ava Gardner in Seven Days in May
His boxy suit in that movie where he played an old criminal just released from prison
Oh my God, his chin!

Name five rejected Donald Trump campaign slogans

"Please help me, I'm bankrupt!"
"Ivanka needs some titties and then I'll raise the money"
"Joan Rivers supports me."
"I wear great suits."
"I spend less on haircuts than John Edwards"

Name five reasons to not buy a new suit

Not enough dough
Satisfied with the suits you already have
Nothing in your size
Hate the styling of all the ones on the rack
Ax murderer hiding in the fitting room

(My two favorites: "Trump 2016: We shall overcomb!" and "There's hell toupee!")

Name five reasons to buy five new suits

Looking sharp!
Put too much shit in your jacket side pockets such that they tear
The trousers one is not careful about
Sick of the suits one already has
Because one is a faggot

Name five reasons to not wear suits, tout court

all right those are two extraordinary Trump slogans. You should be a fucking comedian soon, EH -- those almost made me vomit from laughter. Kudos!

I can't claim credit for the Trump slogans; others told them to me.

Name five reasons to not wear suits, tout court

Too damn hot
Hate how they look
Can't afford one
No one else in the room is wearing one
The Dear Leader decreed that no one may wear suits but him

Name five things you'd say to a dictator if you safely could

Suck my dick
Eat my root
Free my people
Lick my balls
fuck Thatcher

Name five favorite pieces of classical music

Great category!

J.S. Bach, Double Violin Concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesrqFeq9rU
Mascagni, Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSWB4TI
Handel, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B50ed6qaHbU
Boyce, Symphony No. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kyC4XbSKYE
Mahler, Symphony No. 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNm54C4SK0

I could go on....

Name five other favorite pieces of classical music

Webern's Passcaglia
Beethoven's Waldstein
Berg's Wozzeck
Beethoven's Tempest
Schoenberg's Op. 25

Name five genres of music despised by most

Jazz
Classical
Reggae
Gangsta Rap
Disco

Name 5 memorable events from 1960 to 1970

JFK elected
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall erected
Apollo 11
Woodstock

Name 5 memorable events from 1970 to 1980

Abscam
Hostages
Big oil
Recession
The rise of big Ford

Name five good reasons to be sort of pissed off at the moment

People who still can't accept the Supreme Court's SSM decision
House falling apart
Much too rainy
People who don't return phone calls
Easily distracted by Mellophant

Name 5 memorable events from 1980 to 1990

Challenger disaster
Miracle on Ice
Collapse of Berlin Wall
Tianamen Square demonstration
Ouster of Ferdinand Marcos

Name 5 memorable events from 1990 to 2000

Bill Clinton elected in US
Blair and New Labour elected in UK
Lewinskygate
Y2K wasn't that big of a deal after all
Bush v. Gore

Name 5 memorable events from 2000 to 2010