[time-nuts] OT: At the Flea

Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 19:48:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Rex <rexa at sonic.net> wrote:
> On 4/19/2011 9:50 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> Or dihydrogen monoxide?

You'd expect few people to be able parse out the meaning of such an
odd term.  And I'm sure no one gave this more than 15 seconds of
thought.

The story I like used common terms where they asked people to find
things on a world map and 30% could not locate the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/highlights.html

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Chris Albertson
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