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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:17:47PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200311122008.hACK8mWu013352@repoman.freebsd.org>, Poul-Hennin=
g Kamp
>  writes:
> >phk         2003/11/12 12:08:48 PST
> >
> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    games/fortune/datfiles fortunes=20
> >  Log:
> >  Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.
>=20
> Modern journalism seems to demand that any measurement or numeric
> quantity gets translated into "something people can relate to"
> before publication.
>=20
> Typical examples are that volumes are measured in "swiming pools"
> (sometimes qualified as "Olympic size"), area in football or baseball
> fields, heights in multiple of some randomly chosen tourist attraction,
> small angular sizes as how far away a randomly chosen small household
> item looks that size ("A golfball on the moon").
>=20
> You get the idea.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/SciTech/clouds_krulwich030902.html

Ceri

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