I have just confirmed today that Mike Busam did, indeed, start working on InterNaPwoWriMo yesterday. His work will show up at his blog, "Everybody Funny." He is the 25th of us, a baker's two dozen.
buy a dozen stale biscuits and get one free.... that's the way they got rid of 'day old' 'stuff' in Dicken's day... I think that they were hot-cross-buns so two baker's dozens would be 26
I'll ask Little Miss Muffin when next I visit The Chelsea Embankment and maybe Pickeherdillydilly
God, Ed, maybe a little sensibility would suit you sometime. 26 doesn't work at all for me as a baker's two dozen. It's an even number. So since a baker's dozen is one more than a dozen, I thought it would be good for a baker's two dozen (not two baker's dozens) to be 25, one more than two dozen. You really couldn't see that?
Ed, don't forget my advice: read what I say before you respond. 26 is the number I say is an even number. What makes the baker's number weird is the number is wrong *and* the kind of number that it is (odd vs even) is wrong.
I'm so disappointed, Ed, that you now want to be the sane one. What happened to you?...
I have not joined for the entire month, but I've created a One Word Poem for today's NaPoWriMo. Actually, the one word poem is the title for the longer poem I wrote - thus two poems! Hope you will visit.
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who taught you to count?
a Baker's Dozen is 13
buy a dozen stale biscuits and get one free.... that's the way they got rid of 'day old' 'stuff' in Dicken's day... I think that they were hot-cross-buns
so two baker's dozens would be 26
I'll ask Little Miss Muffin when next I visit The Chelsea Embankment and maybe Pickeherdillydilly
God, Ed, maybe a little sensibility would suit you sometime. 26 doesn't work at all for me as a baker's two dozen. It's an even number. So since a baker's dozen is one more than a dozen, I thought it would be good for a baker's two dozen (not two baker's dozens) to be 25, one more than two dozen. You really couldn't see that?
Geof
we doing that Abbott and Costello bit?
I can hardly see the tip of my own nose much less see all of this ...Higher Mathematiques and
since when did "25" get to be an even number
as if 1 + 1 =s 2 when everyboddhi knows that 1 = 1 really =s 3
so, pass the orange marmlueaide for the muffins ...
K., the Sane One
Ed, don't forget my advice: read what I say before you respond. 26 is the number I say is an even number. What makes the baker's number weird is the number is wrong *and* the kind of number that it is (odd vs even) is wrong.
I'm so disappointed, Ed, that you now want to be the sane one. What happened to you?...
Geof
I just read that comment on your ...stream ... from "The Attention Whore"
and got my number-theory screwed-up! (no pun intended)
K. the Recovering Sane One
Thank god you're recovering from sanity now. Get better.
I have not joined for the entire month, but I've created a One Word Poem for today's NaPoWriMo. Actually, the one word poem is the title for the longer poem I wrote - thus two poems! Hope you will visit.
my poem
Thanks for pointing that out, Gerry. Coincidentally, the other day, I wrote a pwoermd but then used it as a title and wrote a poem for it as well. Let's hope my 12-year-old niece appreciates this birthday poem to her!
Geof
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