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| The same voice cast for all fivers from a series |
   
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8 | 61.54% |
| Each fivist reads his own fivers, doing all appropriate voices |
  
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2 | 15.38% |
| It's a horrible idea! |
  
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3 | 23.08% |
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10-29-2006, 12:05 AM
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Sorry, I didn't mean fiving the published fivers. Those take "five" minutes to read. Zeke was insinuating (at least I think he was) that putting on what is essentially a radio show of a five minute read will take more than five minutes to listen to and will take a LONG time to download. Okay, let's use THE EXAMPLE FIVER OF SCIENCE! (Go Bill Nye!)
Here's a sample "fiver" paragraph. How long does it take you to read (at the normal rate): Picard: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship-- Data: Uh, sir, it's time for the plot. Picard: And what's our plot this week? Data: We get to rescue a race of sentient Marshmallow Peeps from an unholy alliance consisting of the Frumious Bandersnatch and The Great and Everlasting Know-It-All. Picard: I quit. Okay, to be kind let's say ten seconds. Now read it aloud, at a reasonable dramatic and humorous pace. "SPACE! The final ... frontier! These ARE the voyages of the starship...," etc. Okay, I got ... twenty seconds. Multiply that by twenty scenes in an ordinary fiver and that's over six minutes. Erm, I'm sure there was a point in there somewhere... Uh, backup anyone? 
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