[3342] in Humor
Re: HUMOR: word counts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ashish Mishra)
Tue Oct 17 15:09:56 2000
To: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
Cc: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:09:16 -0400
From: Ashish Mishra <ashm@MIT.EDU>
This one's a hoax, unfortunately. See for instance
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/document/govmemo.htm
What isn't a joke: the USDA has been debating the proper size of
holes in Swiss cheese. This was a 15 page regulation that would
require the average holes to be reduced to nine-sixteenths of an
inch or something.
I read about this a couple months ago, but don't have a reference
unfortunately.
--A
> >>
> >>Some Important Word Counts
> >>
> >>Pythagorean theorem: 24 words.
> >>
> >>The Lord's prayer: 66 words.
> >>
> >>Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
> >>
> >>The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
> >>
> >>The Gettysburg address: 286 words.
> >>
> >>The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words.
> >>
> >>U.S. Government regulations on cabbage sales: 26,911 words.
> >>
