Out of the mouths of babes

[unixronin]

Me, to the Silly Goose:  Have you done all your homework?

Goose:  Yes.

Me:  Including the reading?

Goose:  Yes.

Me:  How much reading?

Goose:  250 minutes.

Me:  You haven't been HOME 250 minutes.  250 minutes is just over four hours.  Are we perhaps a little confused here over the difference between 25 minutes and 250 minutes?

Pirate:  Perhaps she read fast.

In the words of Hollywood comedy synopses, "Hilarity ensues."

Comments

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

... for very large values of 250. :)

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Meh. Make that either very large values of 25, or very small values of 250. More morning coffee required. :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

cat < /dev/coffeemaker | (ssh ehintz.world.net; cat > /dev/input)



:)

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that'd be ehintz.world.net.nz... :)

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

ehintz.nz.world.net might be a little more useful

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Though frankly I doubt I'll ever live anywhere else again. But admittedly never is a very long time.

[rain-manpnw.livejournal.com]

Is that for very large values of never? or very small ones?

;)

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

In this case I'd go with the probability of largish values of never. :D

[richspk.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she meant 250 kilometers? After all, a kilometer is longer than a minute. Oh, wait...