Frontline on PBS tonight (Tuesday) may discuss this problem in a piece entitled "Digital Nation". This Frontline broadcast will also be available via the www.pbs.org website.

Very interesting! I'll watch it.

I still use 'quarter' as it relates to time.

Try it on a kid and you'll feel like an old gramps.

Well I guess one fourth makes sense logically.... one third, one fourth, one fifth.

I think I'll campaign for a change to onteen, twoteen and threeteen

a quarter means $2500

Maybe in rap and car sales but in my quarter it means Led Zeppelin!

I almost never say one fourth.

go fourth and multiply

because of too many fifths? Which results in a sextext of a circle.

and you'll soon have a seventh son of a seventh son.....

Octopussy and nano-posts. Decimating the entire thread.

Which happens to be exactly how they do it in Russian: odinadsat', dvenadsat', trinadsat'.

And exactly how they don't do it in the Romance languages: French until sixteen, Spanish until fifteen.

You pick up your textbook, you take your choice.

Next time, ask the deli attendant for 0.33 recurring pounds. Time the blank stare.

So, back to idiot sightings, this guy in a car sales yard was looking at a car, and after sitting in the front seat for a while, got in the back to check it out. He didn't stop to think about child-safe locks on the rear doors. He didn't consider that the power windows wouldn't work without the ignition on. At least, not until it was too late.
It was lucky for him the sales chap was about and came and let him out but I got a quick look at him in the mirror while he was there. :smack:

What's really sad is that sounds like something I might have done, ZG. :lol2:

First time I was in the US, Oregon somewhere, somebody asked me the time to which I replied "Five and twenty past ten", to huge guffaws of jolly laughter and cries of "Say it again, say it again". It became a party trick when the clock stood at the relevant time some wag would cry "Listen everyone, Cazz honey, what's the time"?

Oh my gawd! I have done so many stupid things as a result of too many fifths. :drunk: