Gravdigr's Questions - Page 2

ZenGum · 12-23-2011, 06:02 PM

So, a man with no eyes pays an infinite amount for an eye exam? Holy moly, your health care system is soooo screwed up...

HungLikeJesus · 12-23-2011, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

8. Does a man with only one eye pay full price for an eye exam?

No, because in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and the King doesn't pay for health care.

TheMercenary · 12-23-2011, 10:02 PM

I just had to lol at HLJ. You are the bomb.

BigV · 12-24-2011, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

No, because in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and the King doesn't pay for health care.

Is this why he can get away with wearing the Emperor's clothes?

classicman · 12-24-2011, 04:27 PM

Anybody hear the one about the blind mean who entered the store while swinging his seeing-eye-dog above his head?
The clerk asked if he was ok.
Sure he said, just having a look around.

infinite monkey · 12-24-2011, 04:29 PM

I see, said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

Gravdigr · 01-23-2014, 02:27 PM

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It is the largest natural satellite of a planet in the Solar System relative to the size of its primary, having 27% the diameter and 60% the density of Earth, resulting in 1⁄81 its mass.

How does one pronounce that fraction of the Earth's mass?

Sheldonrs · 01-23-2014, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

How does one pronounce that fraction of the Earth's mass?

one eighty oneth you thmuck! lol

xoxoxoBruce · 01-23-2014, 02:45 PM

1.23 per cent.

Gravdigr · 01-23-2014, 02:59 PM

That'th not a fraction.

glatt · 01-23-2014, 02:59 PM

I don't know about that, but kids today say "one fourth" instead of "one quarter." At least in my hood. And I can see how that makes sense.

But you would think they would also say "one second" instead of "one half," but they don't. They're still saying "one half." "One second" might be confused with "one sixtieth" because there are sixty seconds in a minute, and sixty seconds in a degree.

I'd say 1/81 is "one eighty-first."

Molasar · 01-23-2014, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

I'd say 1/81 is "one eighty-first."

of course it is!

Clodfobble · 01-23-2014, 05:25 PM

In the world of educational software audio narration, they would usually ask for something like that to be read, "one over eighty-one."

You want to know pain, try saying "Four-sixths plus two-sixths equals six-sixths" in one take. And you can't slur the syllables to make the sixths just sound like "six," you have to clearly get that x-th-s progression with your tongue each time.

lumberjim · 01-23-2014, 05:44 PM

one eightywunth

i'd say one in eightyone or one OF eightyone

DanaC · 01-23-2014, 05:52 PM

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It is the largest natural satellite of a planet in the Solar System relative to the size of its primary, having 27% the diameter and 60% the density of Earth, resulting in 1 in 81 of its mass.

That doesn't work. I change it to a smaller fraction, like 1/3 - 'resulting in one third of its mass'

It has to be 1/81st, surely?

12-23-2011, 06:02 PM	#16
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12-23-2011, 10:02 PM	#18
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12-24-2011, 04:27 PM	#20
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Anybody hear the one about the blind mean who entered the store while swinging his seeing-eye-dog above his head? The clerk asked if he was ok. Sure he said, just having a look around. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-23-2014, 02:45 PM	#24
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	1.23 per cent. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-23-2014, 02:59 PM	#25
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12-24-2011, 04:29 PM	#21
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I see, said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

01-23-2014, 02:59 PM	#26
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I don't know about that, but kids today say "one fourth" instead of "one quarter." At least in my hood. And I can see how that makes sense. But you would think they would also say "one second" instead of "one half," but they don't. They're still saying "one half." "One second" might be confused with "one sixtieth" because there are sixty seconds in a minute, and sixty seconds in a degree. I'd say 1/81 is "one eighty-first."

01-23-2014, 05:25 PM	#28
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	In the world of educational software audio narration, they would usually ask for something like that to be read, "one over eighty-one." You want to know pain, try saying "Four-sixths plus two-sixths equals six-sixths" in one take. And you can't slur the syllables to make the sixths just sound like "six," you have to clearly get that x-th-s progression with your tongue each time. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-23-2014, 05:44 PM	#29
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	one eightywunth i'd say one in eightyone or one OF eightyone __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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