This is somewhere between the sort of story problem you would find on the SAT and in The Onion's old "Cultural Idiocy" quizzes (I was recently reminded of the old CI feature because, 20 years ago, my friends and I used to do them together at the campus-area bar where we all hung out).
Can you identify the set to which all of these items belong?
Quarter
Half Dollar
Baseball
Tennis Ball
Walnut
Ping Pong Ball
Golf Ball
I'll bet that Tim Morrissey gets it first.
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They all have a foreign substance in the middle?
(ping pong ball has a gas in the middle)
Bad bet! Given time, I'll figure it out, though...
Size of hail, of course
Also, since you started it, I had a journalist friend who collected comparisons such as these in relation to tumors. The most used in the media was "grapefru
it-sized."
well, I guess I won't comment here again. I like the blog, tho, so if it is okay I will keep reading.
George, Blogger has had some problems over the last couple of days, and I have not been able to get at my comments (or post) until now. Three of the comments that I was previously able to see (but not respond to) have since disappeared. I didn't delete them, but it seems that Blogger did. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and please don't stop commenting.
You were correct that the set is sizes of hail. Specifically, they were all mentioned in severe weather alert emails that Channel 3000 sent out on Wednesday afternoon. The wide variety of descriptive nouns made me suspect that they were deliberately coming up with new words each time so we'd know they weren't re-sending the same alerts. Some of them I had seen before, but walnut, tennis ball and ping pong ball were all new to me, and I was amused.
Better than the guess I had.
Nice one.
I posted a suggested answer the day you put this post up, Jill(description of hail sizes) but I'm guessing the Blogger function ate it when it was down.
I knew George H would get it.
Yes, Blogger must have eaten your answer, Tim. They have not restored the missing comments as they promised, either. Grumble.
George's missing comments finally came back, but Tim's answer never appeared. It must have been posted right at the time Blogger was rebooting and is probably lost forever. Hopefully, Google got its act together and won't have another such flub anytime soon.
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