Even better, I live in the county that includes Land O’ Lakes. It’s where the jail is located.
It’s always abbreviated LOL jail. Never fails to make me chuckle.
Chuckle, but not LOL.
I’m in California. It doesn’t need to get that cold to make me appreciate warm seats. They’re also good for the arthritis.
I’ve also heard of shops with a sign out front “Homo gal $2.99”, or the like, meaning homogenized milk, sold in a 1 gallon jug.
Out to Easter brunch with family and friends, and the subject of brain teasers came up. Someone asked one from their childhood:
“Okay, a ball and a bat cost $1.10 together. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the bat cost?”
One HIGHLY INTELLIGENT woman spent the rest of lunch, and all the way home, piping up with “So why can’t the bat cost a dollar?” and “Oh, the ball is $1.10!.. right? … No?” And my favorite: “Wait, so the ball has to cost a dollar?”
It came to her at 6:30 am… “WHY did I not get that right away?”
How many women have you asked out or tried to date?
To be fair, my experience is also likely irrelevant. I have been out of it for 30+ years and I am sure things have changed dramatically.
I looked for photos of an Infinity G35 - and my shallow and materialistic friends would not have been interested in it. My guess is that either it was just a coincidence or there was something in particular that was disliked about your old vehicle - which may or may not have had anything to do with shallowness.
My dad had a this… thing he’d say whenever me or my brother would explain something: “I see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.”
I’m 41 and and only “got” the joke about 6 months ago when my dad said it for the 17,893,082 time and it finally clicked for me what the wordplay was. I always thought it was just some stupid thing that my dad said that had no relationship with, you know, actual English syntax.
To be fair I had to resort to algebra to figure it out; it wasn’t instantly intuitive to me.
Seekers of bargain-priced lesbian call girls would be quite disappointed.
It doesn’t have to be intuitive, but it doesn’t need algebra. The first time I saw this my first (intuitive) thought was the ball cost .10 and the bat 1.00. But that’s only .90 difference, so the ball needs to cost less. It the ball were free, then the bat would be 1.10, and the difference would be 1.10, which is too big. So how about halfway between the two ball prices I’ve guessed, .05? Yup, that works. It’s called successive approximation when an analog to digital converter does it and it took less than ten seconds to go through the mental exercise.
The hard part for the bat-and-ball problem isn’t in figuring out the answer; it’s in realizing that the answer needs to be figured out. Heck, even just trying prices one at a time, by brute force, will get you the right answer reasonably quickly. But too many people just jump straight to an answer, don’t bother to think about whether it actually works, and just leave it at that.
You might be on to something. As I consoled Smart Woman, I said that that big blinking “$1.10” might waylay some, but the “Gotta intuit an answer” or maybe the expectation that there’s a catch…
It’s a bun warmer, silly.
What kind of ball costs five cents and what kind of bat costs a dollar five? Or was their childhood 200 years ago?
Yes. I think I remember seeing this given as an example in either Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow or another similar book.
I’ve also seen the problem stated with a notebook and a pen instead of a bat and a ball, which is a little more realistic pricewise.
I once heard CBC radio personality Don Harron describe it like this: “Eveybody knows what B.S. means, and so M.S. is more of the same and Ph.D. is piled higher and deeper.”
The version I’ve seen is “Time flies I can’t too fast”
Of all the women who rejected me, I don’t think the kind of car I drove was ever a factor.
I’ve always had small, non-flashy and practical cars, and I wouldn’t want to have anything to do with a woman who judges me for the car I drive anyway.