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The other day in a blog I frequent, we had a discussion about the
relative magnitudes of a**loads, buttloads, and sh*tloads, and then someone
raised the spectre of the metric
buttload.
We were unable to find an authoritative source to help us answer
the question.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
m
PS I find myself doing anything to avoid work. My
apologies.
I just walked by a classroom used to train future teachers. These
classrooms can be identified readily by the large number of posters on the
wall. A poster near the door proclaimed, "There are 10 trillion nerve
cells in the brain!"
A Penn & Teller "Bullsh*t" episode addresses the problems people have
with large numbers. They suggest a counting method that might work
here. Let's just say that the brain has a ****-load of neurons.
Obviously, going beyond that level of precision would confuse future
teachers.
Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology &
Counseling
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR
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