[ExI] random stuff combined to prevent overposting

Darin Sunley dsunley at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 23:13:01 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
<snip>

>
> * Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth’s
> surface that is covered with water.
>
Odd use of the word "approximate". Seems to imply:

"Yo mama so fat, she approximates the percent of the Earth's surface that is
covered with water!"

At least only 47% of Americans are that big. Wonder why the article is
complaining about it?

>:))

Darin Sunley
dsunley at shaw.ca
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