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My answer to 'Write any 5 random words' :

    'Moon landing was a hoax'

Mine was 'correct horse battery stapler comic'

I wonder how many variations on this he'll get. Mine was 'correct horse batter staple password'

I wanted to answer something in this class...

Except that's no longer random.

I wonder how many entered 'any 5 random words'

I went for "arbitrary, stochastic, erratic, haphazard, aleatory".

I went for the first 5 words that came to mind, which randomly happened to all be drinks from the previous question.

Close. "Here are five random words".

I'm not clever.

"one two three four five"

yes, I am that lazy

you're not alone

I followed the instructions exactly, and typed "five random words"

I already had a wordlist on my computer, ‘enable1.txt’. I fired up IRB (Ruby) in the console and ran

    words = File.read('enable1.txt').split
    words.sample(5)

This gives a list like ["whit", "unrepair", "suavity", "roentgens", "tophs"].

Spoilers!

'Gazebo, ointment, harpsichord, bungalow, credenza'