Katie and I had a heated discussion the night before last. We were sitting on the couch watching Jon Stewart when she noticed a large, apparently cancerous growth sticking out of the bottom of my foot. She asked what the big lump in my sock was. "That's my toe," I responded, nonplussed. I had crossed my first and second toes, causing a lump to protrude from the bottom of my sock. Katie was quite alarmed. "You can cross your toes?" "Sure, can't you? Everyone can cross their toes!" "Of course I can't cross my toes. Who can cross their toes?" And I confirmed that Katie could not, in fact, cross her toes. Even manipulating her toes with my fingers, I could not get her toes to stay crossed. She just has very short toes. That led, of course, into a discussion of who was the freak. Were my long, crossable toes abnormal, or were her stubby, uncrossable phalanges the outliers? In case you're confused, here are some pictures. First, of my v
I'm going to guess it has to do with the law of water displacement. You don't have a scale and you want to figure out your weight with the displaced volume of water?
ReplyDeleteEither that or you are trying to decide if you should get a bigger tub.
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Where are my bridge books?!?! :)
Looks like you're trying to measure your body's volume by determining how much water you displace. If you know your actual weight and the volume of the displaced water, you can calculate your average density; from this you can, for example estimate your body fat percentage.
ReplyDeleteJust don't go running naked through the streets of Syracuse, 'K?
(My other guess is that you have Aquaman's ability to communicate telepathically with marine life, and you're transcribing a particularly short but humorous joke.)
You are trying to determine the maximum amount of weight you can safely gain that will still allow you to fully submerge in the bath without spilling a drop.
ReplyDeleteBecause you know you're on camera and you want to befuddle some poor saps on the Interwebs
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE CHECKING FOR BODY ODOR UNDERWATER!!!!!!!!
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