4 Greatest Numbers Less Than Five
by Dave Tufts - July 24, 2007 / 5:04pm View more articles
Digg, del.icio.us, and every other social bookmarking site seem littered with enumerated lists. There are lists for the 5 Greatest Sculptors of All Time. Lists for 85 Ajax Solutions for Professional Coding. Lists for anything.
Following this trend, I present the 4 Greatest Numbers Less Than Five:
- One - In the words of the 80's Swedish pop duo, Roxette, "one is such a lonely number". Fortunately for this lonely digit, it also tops my list of the 4 Greatest Numbers Less Than Five.
- Two - The smallest and first prime number is two. In my youth, two was my favorite number because it was Jerry Remy's number.
- Three - Three is the first odd prime number on my list. It's also, according to De La Soul, the magic number.
- Four - The smallest composite number, four, is kind of cool, but doesn't have the cache of one, two, or three. Therefore (intentional pun), four is at the bottom of my list.
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Unfortunately my favorite number (five) didn't make the list.
It's a rebuilding year anyway.
As for 'one', I will forgive the misstep quoting a Roxette song. The correct choice here should be the aptly named track written and performed by Harry Nilsson, but popularized by 3 Dog Night.
Also, I would have put 3 above 2. This coming from all of my Gaming experience (FPS and such). 2 bad guys is no sweat, but when that third wheel shows up its either "Unleash the dogs of war" or "Run like a sissy school girl".
"One" by 3 Dog Night = B-
"One" by Metallica = B+
"One" by U2 = D+
"One" by The Bee Gees = C-
"One" by Creed = D
"One" by Harry Nilsson = C
"One" from the smash Broadway hit, A Chorus Line = A+
Normally true, but House odds on Even / Odd still favor 1 being Odd.
@Dave:
Ok, ok, I can see giving Metallica's "One" a B+, but losing to showtunes.......
...so I have a soft stop in my heart for whiny voices singing "One, singular sensation, Every little step she takes".
You got that list of 'one' songs from Wikipedia, cheater.