In England, when you want a pack of 20 cigs you say "20 Marlboro please". A guy I knew said similar in NY and was handed 20 packs of cigs.
Not the same principle, I know, but ... similar.
As for the example below: the programmer should not have moved because he couldn't buy a constant.
>Wife sends her husband, a programmer, to the grocery:
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>- Buy a pack of butter. If they have eggs, buy ten.
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>He comes back with:
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>- I bought ten packs of butter, because they did have eggs.
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>p.s. Our youngest daughter couldn't spot the flaw - definitely a geek in the making :)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
