I have just confirmed today that Mike Busam did, indeed, start working on InterNaPwoWriMo yesterday. His work will show up at his blog, "Everybody Funny." He is the 25th of us, a baker's two dozen.
buy a dozen stale biscuits and get one free.... that's the way they got rid of 'day old' 'stuff' in Dicken's day... I think that they were hot-cross-buns so two baker's dozens would be 26
I'll ask Little Miss Muffin when next I visit The Chelsea Embankment and maybe Pickeherdillydilly
God, Ed, maybe a little sensibility would suit you sometime. 26 doesn't work at all for me as a baker's two dozen. It's an even number. So since a baker's dozen is one more than a dozen, I thought it would be good for a baker's two dozen (not two baker's dozens) to be 25, one more than two dozen. You really couldn't see that?
Ed, don't forget my advice: read what I say before you respond. 26 is the number I say is an even number. What makes the baker's number weird is the number is wrong *and* the kind of number that it is (odd vs even) is wrong.
I'm so disappointed, Ed, that you now want to be the sane one. What happened to you?...
I have not joined for the entire month, but I've created a One Word Poem for today's NaPoWriMo. Actually, the one word poem is the title for the longer poem I wrote - thus two poems! Hope you will visit.
who taught you to count?
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buy a dozen stale biscuits and get one free.... that's the way they got rid of 'day old' 'stuff' in Dicken's day... I think that they were hot-cross-buns
so two baker's dozens would be 26
I'll ask Little Miss Muffin when next I visit The Chelsea Embankment and maybe Pickeherdillydilly
God, Ed, maybe a little sensibility would suit you sometime. 26 doesn't work at all for me as a baker's two dozen. It's an even number. So since a baker's dozen is one more than a dozen, I thought it would be good for a baker's two dozen (not two baker's dozens) to be 25, one more than two dozen. You really couldn't see that?
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we doing that Abbott and Costello bit?
ReplyDeleteI can hardly see the tip of my own nose much less see all of this ...Higher Mathematiques and
since when did "25" get to be an even number
as if 1 + 1 =s 2 when everyboddhi knows that 1 = 1 really =s 3
so, pass the orange marmlueaide for the muffins ...
K., the Sane One
Ed, don't forget my advice: read what I say before you respond. 26 is the number I say is an even number. What makes the baker's number weird is the number is wrong *and* the kind of number that it is (odd vs even) is wrong.
ReplyDeleteI'm so disappointed, Ed, that you now want to be the sane one. What happened to you?...
Geof
I just read that comment on your ...stream ... from "The Attention Whore"
ReplyDeleteand got my number-theory screwed-up! (no pun intended)
K. the Recovering Sane One
Thank god you're recovering from sanity now. Get better.
ReplyDeleteI have not joined for the entire month, but I've created a One Word Poem for today's NaPoWriMo. Actually, the one word poem is the title for the longer poem I wrote - thus two poems! Hope you will visit.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Gerry. Coincidentally, the other day, I wrote a pwoermd but then used it as a title and wrote a poem for it as well. Let's hope my 12-year-old niece appreciates this birthday poem to her!
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