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As I approach my 79th year on this earth, I have decided that old men need to have expiration dates stamped on their body to warn the newer generations that we could be approaching a non-usable condition. Case in point - my weekend visit to the local pet store. My 8 yr old great-granddaughter requested a re-stocking of the little pond in her mom's water garden that I built for her 20 years ago. I figured, "no problem" - a few inexpensive goldfish and clean water should make for an easy project, along with the necessary fish food and decorative gravel. The posted price of 25 cents each for the small goldfish reinforced the simplicity of my plan. Now, fast forward to the checkout counter manned by a young lady of about 20 years of age. She rang up the gravel and the fish food, then asked how many goldfish I wanted. I replied that a half-dozen should be enough for now. She punched away at the keyboard, then gave me a puzzled look. "I am a little slow this morning - how many is a half-dozen"? Now, I know I may be handicapped in the various languages of the younger generation, but when it comes to "ciphering", I have a Masters degree in mathematics and feel qualified to discuss numbers with all levels of expertise. Rather than embarrass the young lady, I just said, "I have changed my mind - I think I will cut that down to just 6 goldfish for now!" She happily rang up the six baby goldish and left this old man pondering! | ||
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How 'bout a Bakers Dozen? ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
There's no half dozen button on the quantity screen, unfortunately. Computers have helped people to push buttons, not helped them think. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Dozen obsolete? Knot Furlong. Let me help you out. Which way did you come in? | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Lucky you didn’t ask for a gross. | |||
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"Member" |
I've gone the other way, I like to use terms like bushel, peck, rods, hectares in completely incorrect or nonsensical ways. "I'll be back in a half a bushel." (since most people these days don't know any better) I like to throw "You know the old saying." at the end of it. | |||
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| Shit don't mean shit |
I came across a new term a few months ago, from a friend that lived in Kentucky for a while. It's for distance...2 looks & a throw. | |||
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I can't FATHOM the lack of understand what half a dozen means. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Neither can I. Perhaps she was a communist spy. Kind of like not knowing who won the World Series. Using the term "a dozen" this or that I feel is still in fairly common use in the American lexicon. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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In Odin we trust |
I don't believe it's obsolete. My 12 & 8yo kids at home understand the concept of dozen. I think a more plausible explanation is that the nice young lady at the counter is dumb. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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You should have asked her if she knew how many eggs were in a dozen and, if so, half that many. Of course, 1/2 is a fraction, and that may have been beyond her comprehension.  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
I use that all the time - drives my wife nuts when I too. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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| Sigs are my Panacea...  |
I used to work with a guy, when asked about the length of time a project would take, he would answer it with the units "furlongs per fortnight"... Every damn time! * --- Sig 365, 365XL, 245, P6 * | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Or perhaps an immigrant from a place that uses the metric system. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Ask her how many eggs are in a dozen? 41 | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Just be glad you didn't pay her with change including half dollars and dollar coins. You'd still be there waiting for her to count that! | |||
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That's crazy. My nephew Roger has no problem with measuring by the dozen or half dozen. He does suffer from postaxial polydactyly though. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
I wonder how eggs are usually packaged in countries that use the metric system. The nice thing about a package of a dozen is that 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, or 6. Serious about crackers | |||
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Cables and leagues. Poles, pecks, & tuns. . | |||
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That story made my eyes cross, I had to re-read her question twice. | |||
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