Re: I blame Alan

On May 12, 6:49 pm, nowh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Stuart Rogers <stuart.rogers.clara.co...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On 9/5/07 17:52, "Steve Criddle" wrote:
> >> I believe it was Stuart Rogers who once wrote:
>
> >> ~ > Plus, with all those carrots, you can see through fog.
> >> ~
> >> ~ Indeed.  The carrot is the basic unit of fog density.
>
> >> I thought the pea was the basic unit of fog density.  As in "pea
> >> soup".
>
> >Not since we went metric.  That said, the carrot measure is really
> >the inverse of the pea measure.
>
> So if the pea is the unit of fog density, and the carrot is the
> inverse, then the carrot is the density of the parts of the atmosphere
> that is not fog.
>
> Or fog indensity, perhaps.

If pea is the unit of fog density, is the butterbean the unit of cloud
cover?

Are "sailor's trousers" the unit of blue sky visibility? Is it dark
over Will's mothers? (It's probably just a naarfolk thing)

And in further work, have you considered how to measure the "dark
pea", which theoretically comprises the bulk of the
mass of the universe?

Sally, peas are nice