Originally Posted By: micha

e.g. why you can't say I am 140 IQ points intelligent, or the oven is 300 degrees hot! :-)


well, you can, sort of:
be careful, that water is boiling hot.
the water they dived in was freezing cold.
he has MENSA intelligence.

while this sort of thing is certainly measurable, there may be hyperbole involved in the event. : )