He said Five-by-Five!

POSTED BY: Adamanthea
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 15:46
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ANOTHERSKY

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 6:53 AM

five...by...five....

hands...

:D

Just playing around.

SCHISM

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:43 AM

In what context is "Five by Five" used?

Also, has anyone ever watched or heard of the 60's British show 'The Avengers'?
Specifically the Dianna Rigg / Ms Peel era?

That's what Castle should be like - plenty of innuendo, but NO actual contact. X-Files was like that too, wasn't it?

CELLARDOOR

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:44 PM

Oh yeah, the tension definitely makes the show. :) I'm complaining, but I not really complaining, ya know? Let's hope the fun doesn't get spoiled too quickly! I think X-Files was like that too, but I never really got into it, so I'm going with the discussions a few of my friends had freshman and sophomore years in college (they were totally addicted to X-Files and ER).

On 5X5... it seems like one of the Terran units in the original StarCraft said 5X5 as one of their movement sound files too (like you tell them where to go and they say [something something] five by five). Wish I could remember the unit... it was the kinda tough-voiced female, and one of her other sound clips was "In transit HQ." I guess I just need to go play the game again.

WASHNWEAR

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 3:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Schism:
In what context is "Five by Five" used?

Not being familiar with StarCraft and never having watched more than half an ep of Buffy, I wish-recognized the line as being from Aliens, as the Sulaco is making its first trip down to the Big Alien Fun planet: "We're in the pipe – five by five!" It took me a rewind or 2 to determine that Nathan didn't say the "We're in the pipe" part. I realize it doesn't constitute a direct Whedon shout-out (though there is the 6-degrees-of-separation angle with Joss having written for one of the later Alien sequels), but I thought it was a nice science-fictiony nod in general (like I say, didn't know about the Buffy connection).

Here's what Wiki has to say about 5 x 5:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_by_5

More info here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080714211542AAndvif

ETA: Damn tag gremlins!

W W S D ?
What would Spunkmeyer do?

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