I like to read the historical events that happened on particular days, and one of today’s I found very silly indeed.
On this day in 1889, the Second International Electrical Congress adopted the joule as a unit of energy, after James Joule, the watt as a unit of power, after James Watt, and the quadrant as a unit of electrical inductance. Inductance is the tendency of an electrical conductor to oppose a change in the electric current flowing through it. The flow of electric current creates a magnetic field around the conductor. What I found so silly is that the name “quadrant” was later changed to henry. The henry (symbolized H) is the Standard International unit of inductance . One henry is the equivalent of one kilogram meter squared per second squared per ampere squared (kg m 2 s -2 A -2 ).
Henry? Why not Flora or Sylvester? This got me started renaming things. “Yep, husband drove 90 Biancas to Bismarck last night. ” Or “I lost 10 Elliots with my new diet.”
Come up with some silly names for units of measurement.
Trail Baboon 
I choose Latros for my boy and Set for the girl.
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I suppose “quadrant” was too common a word, but yes, why Henry?
How about a “Barbara” for the number of books considered, scanned, and rejected in a given week?
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Rise and Siberia, Baboons,
Harry as a unit of dog hair vacuumed up in my vacuum. This is especially true in the spring when she sheds.
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Auto correct changed shine to Siberia? Really?
And WP is making me sign in for every like, every comment.
Done complaining now.
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Yes, as you may remember, I used to “Like” almost everything, but I just don’t have that kind of time now. I suppose I could chime in occasionally and say “Like the last 5 comments…”
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Yes, I do remember.
Meanwhile, a WordPress software glitch is called a “WoPFU” Word Press F***Up.
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a wopuf
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Welcome to the club, Jacque. Misery loves company.
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Given it is going to be really hot here for the next week, I would love to rise and Siberia.
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The distance light travels in one year is a Buzz.
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Lies per minute: Donalds.
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it’s a WoPFU! Suddenly and without notice, I can Like.
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Gives me hope, but not yet. Maybe I need to type WoPFU.
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Me too! From work!
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I still can’t.
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I would like some extra Solveigs of flexibility and an extra Beethoven of coffee this morning. The former measure is based on an 18-year-old circus kid and her level of bendiness. The latter is based on Ludwig van Beethoven’s love of coffee and his precision in the number of beans required for a single cup.
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We could also have cantatas of coffee!
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Indeed! Perhaps the question is how many Beethovens in a Cantata of coffee? ☕️
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Now that actual thought is required, count me out.
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There’s a book and play called ‘Frindle’ which is about a boy deciding this exact thing; why are things called what they are. And he decides pencils should be frindles. Gets all his friends involved and they all use the word and after a few years it gets to be commonplace.
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Inches of waist size gained per year is a WES.
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Ten laughs per minute might be one Baboon. I don’t know, but this is the most fun I’ve had all week!
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Five fingers of vodka would be one Cath of vodka (my highly esteemed sister in law). I think that’s it for me today. I don’t Siberia at this.
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I had a really bad itch just about to snuglets below my wasko
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Thank you.
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(I had also considered Gesundheit.)
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Gesundheit.
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LOL!
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One’s State Fair fatigue ranking is equal to the square root of the distance walked in Skechers divided by the fat and sugar calories consumed in Marthas. When you reach a measurement of 10 or higher on the Goldy scale an interval of 51 weeks must pass before resuming State Fair activity.
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excellent
can you set it to a rap tune
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Well done!
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