Fahrenheit is much, much better than Celsius. Or at least it was before those standard-pressure-boiling-water buggers messed with it. 2^6 degrees from freezing (32°F) to normal body temp (originally 96°F)—-none of that pathetic metric counting on your fingers.Base ten is sooo kindergarten-y.
@Ghostkeper: the advantage of storing dates Year-Month-Day is in computer sorting. Internally that’s pretty much how they’re always done in databases, they can display in any format needed.Myself, I usually write the date 10 Dec 2011, universally recognized (except in countries following Islamic and other unusual calendars, which I do not frequent).
It’s because the American tradition of saying dates is month, date, year. We say “August the 10th” while in the UK they say “the 10th of August.” That’s why we write month first; it matches our speech pattern.
I use the same conversion system for my age. Makes me feel younger! Thanks for the laugh Pab, great strip.
I agree with your logic of month, day, year and it works well with computer files, because then they are filed numerically and can be found easily. i.e. 121011, 121111, etc. they cannot be mixed up.
I’m an American and I wouldn’t mind if this country used meters, liters, and grams, but I don’t see any advantage in using the Celsius scale instead of the Fahrenheit one. In fact, a temperature given in Fahrenheit is more precise than one in Celsius because the F-scale uses smaller degrees than the C-scale (9 F-degrees = 5 C-degrees).
Nebulous Premium Member almost 13 years ago
The Metric Calendar was the one part of that Revolutionary system that didn’t catch on.
CaptainKiddeo almost 13 years ago
Thank you! First real laugh I’ve had today. But my son just made a face. Is this joke age-specific?
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Fahrenheit is much, much better than Celsius. Or at least it was before those standard-pressure-boiling-water buggers messed with it. 2^6 degrees from freezing (32°F) to normal body temp (originally 96°F)—-none of that pathetic metric counting on your fingers.Base ten is sooo kindergarten-y.
3hourtour Premium Member almost 13 years ago
…HA!…
perceptor3 almost 13 years ago
A funny joke you have to think about! How so not 2011. . .
WayneZombie almost 13 years ago
@Ghostkeper: the advantage of storing dates Year-Month-Day is in computer sorting. Internally that’s pretty much how they’re always done in databases, they can display in any format needed.Myself, I usually write the date 10 Dec 2011, universally recognized (except in countries following Islamic and other unusual calendars, which I do not frequent).
Yangtze almost 13 years ago
Very subtly funny. I love humour that isn’t “American” ;-)
cooganm Premium Member almost 13 years ago
[snort!] How many years have you been keeping that one on the burner?
Pab Sungenis creator almost 13 years ago
It’s because the American tradition of saying dates is month, date, year. We say “August the 10th” while in the UK they say “the 10th of August.” That’s why we write month first; it matches our speech pattern.
rockngolfer almost 13 years ago
I have my slide rule right here. I put it in 5 garage sales and no one made an offer.
MatureCanadian almost 13 years ago
I use the same conversion system for my age. Makes me feel younger! Thanks for the laugh Pab, great strip.
I agree with your logic of month, day, year and it works well with computer files, because then they are filed numerically and can be found easily. i.e. 121011, 121111, etc. they cannot be mixed up.
cwreenactor almost 13 years ago
LOL!!!!! That is soooo funny. Thanks, Pab.
runar almost 13 years ago
The oven in my stove is calibrated in Celsius. To bake a pizza, I set the temperature at 230.
Sherlock Watson almost 13 years ago
I’m an American and I wouldn’t mind if this country used meters, liters, and grams, but I don’t see any advantage in using the Celsius scale instead of the Fahrenheit one. In fact, a temperature given in Fahrenheit is more precise than one in Celsius because the F-scale uses smaller degrees than the C-scale (9 F-degrees = 5 C-degrees).
enochg Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I love this joke!
stanwal almost 13 years ago
Unless I am mistaken Britain DOES use the metric system; the US is about the only hold out.
CoBass almost 13 years ago
One advantage of the Fahrenheit system is that, for most of the world and most of the time, daily temperatures range from 0F to 100F.