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Am I the only one who did not get the joke? "Money laundering" is kind of obvious but what about the other two?WWGD said:
Yes, you got it right in the spoiler.jack action said:Am I the only one who did not get the joke? "Money laundering" is kind of obvious but what about the other two?
Had to look for it on the web; I am not that smart:
No. Did "Assault and 'buttery'" at a family re-union little over thirty years ago...hence, the .jack action said:Am I the only one who did not get the joke?
WWGD said:Yes, you got it right in the spoiler.
phinds said:
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.gmax137 said:A friend liked to say, "There are two kinds of people: those who believe there are two kinds of people, and those who don't..."
Hurkyl's reply to this upthread is good, as is humanino's reply immediately below.nuuskur said:There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'm guessing that man leaning on a tree hasn't been downwind of a cattle farm.phinds said:
An interesting analysis but utterly incomplete. How much methane do cows emit per hour vs how much do cars emit? If cars emit 20 times as much per running hour as does a cow for one hour **, then your analysis supports the thesis of the joke.Borg said:I'm guessing that man leaning on a tree hasn't been downwind of a cattle farm.
A quick Google check shows that there are 1.4 billion cars and 1 billion cows. Assuming that a car is parked (and turned off) for 95% of its life, that amounts to 72 minutes of running time per day. Meanwhile, the cows are happily producing 'emissions' 24/7. Even if you were to compare an average of cows to cars (1B cows/1.4B cars), it would still work out to 17 hours of cow emissions per day as compared to a car's 72 minutes.
Whereas the original meme is utterly misleading. I wouldn't lock myself in a garage to determine whether an average car produces more pollutants than an average cow.phinds said:An interesting analysis but utterly incomplete.
Nor would I. It IS a joke after all. Still, this side-steps the issue of your analysis being incomplete. How scientific is that?Borg said:Whereas the original meme is utterly misleading. I wouldn't lock myself in a garage to determine whether an average car produces more pollutants than an average cow.
I never claimed completeness in my statement. My point is that the 'joke' tries to convince people of the invalidity of a premise by use of a strawman that is ridiculous in its analysis.phinds said:Nor would I. It IS a joke after all. Still, this side-steps the issue of your analysis being incomplete. How scientific is that?