Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 08, 2020

Maybe he means that they are the only numbers which rhyme with his name.

And, of course, I just remembered:

“I see him on his knees / I know that it’s him / seven come eleven down in the boy’s gym…”

These kid’s vocabulary is commendable, and a bit unreal.

Ah, but zero through twelve are the numbers with names. Plus, of course, the tens. What she descibes are not true number names but additions. Three plus ten is thirteen, etc.

Things could get a little cold from the rime!

Erudition (n.): Dust shaken out of of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

…any multi-digit number that doesn’t end in zero? Huh? So 512 and 6349 rhyme? I think that was supposed to any multi-digit number that ends in zero, although the rhymes are very weak. (for-ty, fif-ty, nine-ty, etc).

She nailed us.

I do not think that “teen” rhymes with “teen.” Maybe some people use the word “rhyme” that way, but I never have.

At least my pedantry yesterday was not mistaken!

You want rhyme? OK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxahOPzA9S8

Well, seeing the posts from the last two days, it seems like the boy’s last statement is spot on…

When I see or hear “between 12 and 20,” I think “including 12 and 20.”

Methinks young lad doth confuse pedantry with ability to think critically.

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Frazz:14 hrs · I believe this is what the pharmacists call an off-brand use.Although, really, just how necessary is a pedantry detection system, anyway? Pedants are like farts and (call-back to Justice Potter Stewart!) obscenity — when they’re there, you know it.