Maybe I’m just up too late and having trouble understanding, but if she means this in terms of statistical significance, can one individual really be “significantly” larger than another? I thought statistical significance could only describe differences between groups?
Aren’t clementines just tangerines? If not what’s the difference? If so, when and why did the name change? And what’s with these mandarin things anyway?
The personal tech world changed so much, so noticeably, in my lifetime. I cut my computer teeth on a little Macintosh that was about the size of a little beer cooler with a screen about the same size as, curiously, a modern iPhone, though without the color, the power, the touch sensitivity, the camera, the memory, the speed, the programs, the sound or even the beer. Meanwhile, iPods, iPads and watches and even, all the way through, Macintoshes, but so much more powerful Macintoshes that are so much easier to use.
While all that was going on, the citrus industry was quietly having a revolution of its own. When I was a kid, peeling a temple took your whole lunch hour, and you’d end up eating more pith than pulp, and more seeds than that. You certainly weren’t getting much juice; that had already gone straight to the table, the floor, your skin and your clothes. Navels addressed the seed issue but not the peelability; tangerines addressed the other but not the one, though, to be fair, they were a little less messy. But that was because they didn’t have much juice in the first place. Or flavor. But progress was not to be stopped, and we moved up to mandarins and tangelos and, oh, the pinnacle of it all, the clementine. So flavorful, so juicy, with minimal seeds and pith, and they practically peel themselves.
I’d say the clementine is the iPhone of the citrus world, but everybody knows you don’t go around comparing Apples to oranges.
monkeysky over 5 years ago
Maybe I’m just up too late and having trouble understanding, but if she means this in terms of statistical significance, can one individual really be “significantly” larger than another? I thought statistical significance could only describe differences between groups?
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
Say just big enough to clog a toilet?
Nachikethass over 5 years ago
Those are the type of kids who should be made to assist the janitor as he cleans up the toilet.
whahoppened over 5 years ago
Frazz, did you just get a hint what might be in the toilet?
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
These modern toilets actually need to be backed up? The Internet of Things is really getting out of hand here.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Frazz didn’t know about the orange but now he definitely knows those tools he’s carrying are not going to clear that line.
whelan_jj over 5 years ago
Aren’t clementines just tangerines? If not what’s the difference? If so, when and why did the name change? And what’s with these mandarin things anyway?
Scott S over 5 years ago
Worse to clean up – the backed-up toilet or the child who got sick on the floor?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
PostsFrazz14 hrs ·
The personal tech world changed so much, so noticeably, in my lifetime. I cut my computer teeth on a little Macintosh that was about the size of a little beer cooler with a screen about the same size as, curiously, a modern iPhone, though without the color, the power, the touch sensitivity, the camera, the memory, the speed, the programs, the sound or even the beer. Meanwhile, iPods, iPads and watches and even, all the way through, Macintoshes, but so much more powerful Macintoshes that are so much easier to use.
While all that was going on, the citrus industry was quietly having a revolution of its own. When I was a kid, peeling a temple took your whole lunch hour, and you’d end up eating more pith than pulp, and more seeds than that. You certainly weren’t getting much juice; that had already gone straight to the table, the floor, your skin and your clothes. Navels addressed the seed issue but not the peelability; tangerines addressed the other but not the one, though, to be fair, they were a little less messy. But that was because they didn’t have much juice in the first place. Or flavor. But progress was not to be stopped, and we moved up to mandarins and tangelos and, oh, the pinnacle of it all, the clementine. So flavorful, so juicy, with minimal seeds and pith, and they practically peel themselves.
I’d say the clementine is the iPhone of the citrus world, but everybody knows you don’t go around comparing Apples to oranges.
M2MM over 5 years ago
At least she didn’t try to flush the doorstop. I had to take apart a toilet when a kindergartener did that. :P