Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:23:36 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20031112202336.GL60410@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <38583.1068668267@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200311122008.hACK8mWu013352@repoman.freebsd.org> <38583.1068668267@critter.freebsd.dk>
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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-Henning Kamp
> writes:
> >phk 2003/11/12 12:08:48 PST
> >
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
> > Log:
> > Add a card carryring member of the Pointless Comparison Collection.
>
> Modern journalism seems to demand that any measurement or numeric
> quantity gets translated into "something people can relate to"
> before publication.
>
> 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").
>
> You get the idea.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/SciTech/clouds_krulwich030902.html
Ceri
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