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Q: Who was the first person to use 5 by 5 as a term for good?

A: In terms of popular culture, I believe this was first used on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as mentioned in the article.


I've heard of the phrase Mr. five by five, where the implication is that the guy under consideration is short and fat (five feet high and five feet wide). I dunno how to squeeze this into the article, or if it should be thus squoze. Bunthorne 00:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. While this is a stupid thing to correct I'll do it out of sheer cussedness. The movie, Aliens came out in 1986 and (if I were to guess) because of Joss Whedon's interests and involvement with the fourth Alien movie, he was quoting Aliens in Buffy; the episode in question I believe was on in 2000. As also pointed out, it was in the game Starcraft which was released in 1998, before the BVS episode. And even if that weren't the case, it was in the movie Fail Safe even before them back in the 60's; so it's safe to say Buffy was not the first place it had meaning in pop culture, just the first place it's written on an unnecessary Wiki list. (144.92.84.206 (talk) 15:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

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