^z 23rd March 2023 at 7:43am
Heard on a national radio network broadcast yesterday morning:
| Oil prices closed at $37 a barrel. That's still below $40 a barrel. |
Imagine applying this kind of in-depth quantitative analysis to other issues—election results, interest rates, demographic trends, or maybe even the weather forecast! (Wake me up, please, as soon as 37 begins to exceed 40 ...)
(see also FormulaStory (15 Aug 2001), DeptOfRedundancyDept (19 Apr 2003), UnimaginableTimelessness (225 Apr 2003), SemioticArsenal (20 Nov 2003), ... )
TopicHumor - TopicScience - TopicPersonalHistory - 2004-06-18
(correlates: BowelsOfTheEarth, AuthoritarianButtons, ReversionToTheMean, ...)