Monty by Jim Meddick for September 14, 2024

0.02 cm short of an inch.

Yep he’s right about that…that little fella is 0.02 cm shy of being an inch worm. Hey wait a minute, does Monty live in Canada?

The more the merrier in a metric sense.

Close enough to an inch for non-scientific purposes.

Monty didn’t qualify for Canadian citizenship-he couldn’t pronounce ‘eh’.

Round up, E. B.

If you’ve ever watched an inch worm ( Geometridae Moth ) move, they grasp with their front legs and pull their rear legs up. They then stretch out for another grab. The action looks as though the critter is measuring the space it travels. The name is not really from the size of the animal but from the way it moves. Your welcome and I’ll reset my glasses on my nose and move on.

I immediately started singing the inchworm song from the movie, Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye. I think that’s my favorite movie of his.

Better poke holes in the lid ASAP and get some fresh leaves…

Mom used to tell me if there was an inchworm crawling on me I was destined to get some new clothes.

Reminds me of one of my early guitar lessons when I was taught to play the Mills Brothers’ “Glow Worm”. Haven’t played that for 40 years.

Common mistake to add significant figures to erroneously make a measurement seem more precise. You cannot take a measurement, presumably precise to the 1/10th of an inch, i.e. two significant figures, and report it in another measurement system to three significant figures.

While an inch is 2.54 centimeters, by definition, a worm is as long as a worm. :)

Well, that didn’t take long.

Looks like a fine garnish for a sandwich to me. Monty, you butthead. :)

oh wow, this might be EB’s 1st cocoon & moth!

Well, the name. refers to the movement of the critter, as though it’s measuring something (as seen in the jar). Regionally known as a measuring-worm and span-worm (and UK, looper). N

I came to the comments just to see if there was someone as pedantic as me.