From: Joel Ray Holveck Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.humor.oracle.d] 901-03 wrong Lehrer? Date: 6 May 1997 15:40:01 -0700 Subject: Re: 901-03 wrong Lehrer? From: tph@rmi.net (Tom "Tom" Harrington) Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d Paul L. Kelly wrote: > tph@rmi.net (Tom "Tom" Harrington) wrote: > > >You need to study up on general numerical relativity. It's a bit hard > >to explain, but a gajillion and one is... a gajillion. And two times a > > Look, I hate to pee on your bonfire here, but you seem to be confusing > a "gajillion" with a "bazillion." A gajillion is approximately equal > to a shitload, and we all know that for really large loads of shit, > we would refer to a "shitload and a half." No, no, that's not it. The 'shitload' is the metric equivalent of a gajillion. They're conceptually similar, but really, a gagillion is equal to about 3.27 kiloshitloads. Really large loads of shit are measured in megashitloads. At least, that's what the ISO standard says. > Okay, we know that there is the number "one." Then when we have > two, we have a "couple." Three to four (or sometimes five) is called > "a few," and more than that, but still countable withing five seconds > is called "several." After that we have a "bunch," then hundreds, > thousands, millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, quintillions, > and so on, until we get to a gajillion. Or in the metric, it'd be nanoshitloads, microshitloads, millishitloads, shitloads, kiloshitloads, megashitloads, and terashitloads. Oh, and you forgot to include "sextillions". Or doesn't your ISP let you post words like that? > Now although nobody could > possibly count to a gajillion, I think we can all agree that if you > had a gajillion of anything, you could also be said to have a shitload > of that something. Err... 3.27 kiloshitloads. Approximately. I think the problem here is that you have apparently confused the "shitload" with the "buttload". A buttload is a lot, but not so much as a hell-of-a-lot. A hell-of-a-lot is about equal to 12.5 buttloads. Actually, the only significant difference between the buttload and the shitload is timing.