Monday, February 11, 2013

You're not as confused as the Boston Globe

Yesterday, I was reading the Sunday paper and the Globe had an article about the monster snowstorm that passed through this previous weekend.  There was a graphic with the article that listed the largest snowfall recorded and apparently the town of Spencer had 31 feet of snow.

My mind instantly jumped to this infamous example of unit confusion:


Background here.

3 comments:

Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy precipitation. said...

31 feet. None more white.

Roger Bournival said...

Stonehenge!

Anonymous said...

But you gave me this napkin. #%@& the napkin!