Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 09, 2009
May 08, 2009
May 10, 2009
Transcript:
Miss Plainwell says, "How far did you swim today?" Frazz says, "3,000 yards, 2,800 meters, 1.5 miles, nine furlongs." Miss plainwell says, "?And nine furlongs?" Frazz says, "Not 'and.' 3,000 yards or 2,800 meters or?" Miss Plainwell says, "Somebody needs one of those lap counter things." Frazz says, "Or one of those attention span things."
AndyB100 Premium Member over 1 year ago
3000 yards = 2743.2m = 1.704 miles = 13.6 furlongs (8 furlongs to the mile!)
unfair.de about 1 year ago
I still don’t understand why the US-Americans use a decimal numbering system while failing in metric units. They should be consistent in their historic crockery and stay with the use of a loosely base12 counting.
robert423elliott 6 months ago
Why does it bother you people so much that we don’t use the metric system? It doesn’t bother us that you do use is. Ever think that, maybe, we just don’t want to change? We’ve been using our system all our lives. Now, you show us how easy it is to change by switching over to our system! I’d love to see that! And, yes, we do use the length of a football field sometimes to tell someone how far something is or how big it is. There’s a combination for you. It’s exactly 100 YARDS long and it’s divided into TEN sections. lol