5 is not enough degrees

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5 is not a respectable degree. It's the number of cold fingers I had on my right hand as I started the car this morning and later the same 5 fingers picked up a can of frozen, bruised Pepsi I found in the bank parking lot.

5? 

The thermometer read 5. 
 
5 is the number of easy pieces Jack Nicholson played,
 
5 is the number Joe DiMaggio wore when he hit safely in 56 straight ball games,

5 is the number of the slaughterhouse, Schlachthof-fünf, in the Vonnegut novel,
 
5 is the number of Beach Boys or Fleetwood Macs,
 
5 is the number of cards in a poker hand,

5 the number of heads Borglum wanted on Rushmore 
   but he ran out of room, 

5 is the number of limbs on a starfish,

5 is half of a ten dollar bill, 

5 is the dimension Serling called the Twilight Zone,

5 is the number of letters in the word Pepsi that was frozen,

5 is the number of Supreme Court Justices if four phone in sick,

5 is the number of sides on the Pentagon,

5 is the number of rings in the Olympic symbol,

5 is the number of toes on Lincoln's left foot,
 
but, 5 is not a respectable number of degrees, 
although it makes a fairly respectable left foot.

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