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Dear wow: one of the few things I remember from college math is "Explore the means and extremes". If you think of trying to mow a lawn 100 feet by 440 feet, you can get bewildered particularly if you go round and round it in a nest of diminishing squares. But a certified genius like me
will think;"What if the lawn were ten inches wide, how long would it have to be to be an acre?" Then it is trivial.Every computer has a calculator. Work it out. If the swath were a foot wide, the lawn would be 44,000 long.
If the swath is 10 inches, that is 5/6 feet. 44,000 divided by 5/6 equals 52,800. Since 5,280 feet equals one mile, in mowing that long skinny lawn you would have had to walk TEN miles.
I had fun one day working this out in my head, while mowing a lawn thankfully nowhere near an acre. I'd never have finished it.
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10 inches, that is 5/6 feet. 44,000 divided by 5/6 equals 52,800 ...fun working this out in my head
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That is scary!
Sure, easy if you have a passing familiarity with numbers!
Why'd you think I took up writing?
wow
And I can do my checkbook. That's straightforward
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Come again TEd?
Snicker, snicker, snicker.
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>"Come over and visit vunst!" (Meaning "Come over and visit sometime!" or something close to that.)
How odd. French Québecois often use the same expression. Tu passeras une fois! (you can pass once) which also means come and visit sometime.
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I have read that in some cultures coupling in the rows was supposed to induce the fields to propagate.
Quite literally "growing crops orgasmically".
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It was pretty odd - I'm absolutely certain I heard correctly. And, as I said, no one batted an eyelid.
Although I've never been into real hillbilly country in the States, I think you'd find that while the Hokonuis people weren't quite so insular and inbred, they were a group which still considered itself to be under seige (as they were, in a manner of speaking, during prohibition) and pretty much kept themselves to themselves. The misuse of that word was probably only the tip of an iceburg. But that one struck a young lad whose hormones were already doing backflips quite forcibly!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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