Sheesh. Kids today. No grounding in the classics.
Whoosh. :smack:
Fine so I’ve never heard of Abbott and Costello, the farthest I go back is Harry Enfield (well, Monty Python but they don’t really count because of their widespreadnessitude) in regards to comedy.
It sounds to me like somethign Dr. Seuss would write, sue me.
A piece of string this* colour.
*Hold your hands about so far apart as you say this
Light blue or dark blue?
Dude, you’re not paying attention … it’s light blue or heavy blue.
Ohh, I wanna play!
If the rotation of Earth were to be reversed, how many pancakes could you fit on top of a doghouse?
Green, because ice cream has no bones.
(Taken from a “Fox Kids” magazine in the “Ask The Tick” section circa 15 years ago.
Well, why not? You Seussed garygnu, he could counter-Seuss. 
There are so many mutations of that, my favourite is:
So I was walking my snowmobile down when the tire popped, I was contemplating how to get around such a conundrum when it came to me:
How many pancakes does it take to wallpaper a doghouse?
Purple, because ice-cream has no bones unless a rhinocerous licks it.
Touche’.
Rhubarb, I really would like to accept your very logical answer but I can’t help myself.
Fundamental units are only meaningful in relation to other fundamental units.
No, no they’re not. The official SI unit definition of a second is: “duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom” Wiki link. It’s not defined based on any other unit. Similarly, the kilogram is defined based on a standard cylinder made of platinum-iridium, stored in a vault in Sevres, France. The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 times the distance between the poles and the equator, measured along the surface of the Earth.
The fundamental units are just that.
Further, even though it is possible to resolve E = mc[sup]2[/sup] into s = 1 m kg[sup]1/2[/sup]J[sup]-1/2[/sup], as scr4 did above, that doesn’t mean “one second has a meter in it”, it means something more along the lines of “one second is the amount of time needed to move one kilogram of mass along a distance of one meter using one Joule of energy.” As others have pointed out, any attempts to resolve this further result in 1 second = 1 second.
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Ohh, I wanna play!
If the rotation of Earth were to be reversed, how many pancakes could you fit on top of a doghouse?
Oh that’s easy… 2½ or if it’s a large doghouse 2¾
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Close, but incorrect. You’re more familiar with MDU or Metric Doghouse Units, not used in the US. Over here, it would be 5/8 pi/(# doghouses per dwelling unit x rainfall in inches)
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But you’re assuming they’re regular pancakes, I was giving the equations for Scotch pancakes which is the same over there as here
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Well sure, if you mean in the afternoon. But you can’t assume that.
Due to gravity, the weight of time is relative to the circumference of the earth and the latitude at which the time is measured. That is why Scotch pancakes are thicker and heavier than Finnish pancakes.
Just a moment, Scotch pancakes are very very small and thin.
Are you saying that Finnish pancakes are even smaller and thinner?
If so I find this hard to believe