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Author Topic: 21 May '07 -- You're the man in like seventy ways  (Read 5241 times)

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Re: 21 May '07 -- You're the man in like seventy ways
« Reply #30 on: May 24, 2007, 01:10:44 pm »
A gram?  A gram!
About the weight of a single raisin
About the weight of a paper clip, now isn't that amazin'!
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Re: 21 May '07 -- You're the man in like seventy ways
« Reply #31 on: May 26, 2007, 04:44:17 am »
Quote from: CortJstr on May 24, 2007, 12:57:55 pm
A yard is 0.91 meters, so that should actually be one of the easier concepts to wrap our heads around in either direction.

It should be but as someone starts talking about a distance beyond say 3 yards I am completely unable to judge how long they mean. My brain just refuses to do the calculations. Not sure why.
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Re: 21 May '07 -- You're the man in like seventy ways
« Reply #32 on: May 26, 2007, 09:57:25 pm »
One of my good friends here is Dutch (Hollandaise? Netherlander? whatever). Anyway, she was getting confused when I was talking about something in terms of a "300 yard radius". I then explained, "Oh, just think of it as around 300 meters, it's pretty close." Then of course my boss had to make sure to patronizingly inform me in a you-are-so-stupid voice that a yard was not the same as a meter.

I had to stop and manually turn off my sarcasm switch in order to say, "Yes, I know that. That is why I said AROUND, and IT'S PRETTY CLOSE."
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Re: 21 May '07 -- You're the man in like seventy ways
« Reply #33 on: May 27, 2007, 05:52:42 am »
As a brief experiment, I plan to refer to the Dutch folks I know as Hollandaise, and see how it goes.  Since I know all of 2 - it will be brief indeed.  They'll probably just assume I'm a stupid American and ignore me.
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