Why are sizes measured in fruit and vegetables? As if the conflict between the metric system and our American system isn't messed up enough, we have to add vegetarian food (and sometimes coins, which is doubly ridiculous because they're already used to measure money before arbitrarily adding something else for them to represent) to the equation.
Is there a standard-sized cantaloupe, petrified and encased in bulletproof glass at the U.N. Organic Measurement Committee Facility somewhere in Kerplakistan? So when somebody says, "the tumor was the size of a grapefruit," they're really referring to an actual glass-encased grapefruit in some U.N. facility. And ought to be saying "the tumor was the size of the grapefruit" if they want us all to catch their proverbial drift. For just $10 a year, you can get an official poster with each of the U.N.'s uniform Organic Measurement fruits. Order in the summer and get a complimentary U.N. Watermelon. While supplies last.
I don't get it.
But they say our baby is about the size of a tangerine. Or 6-7 quarters laid flat and arranged in a circle.
-P
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