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Memory isn't needed to execute a child, you just need bleach or a knife.

I remember that. Do you know why they used those words?

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What's the fastest thing in Wales? A virgin sheep.

Subdivision of the hour.

First is the minute (MI-NOOT). Second is the second. Third is the third.

Also, 1/18.2 of a second is a "tick" (not the parasitic animal kind).

I don't know about that, but I remember a "South Park" where a man was yelling about not having an erection. His kid hears this and goes to church where he hears about a res-erection. He thinks he can get one and give it to his dad.

A comma is the deep sleep you fall into when you get hit on the head :-)

I like that kind of thing. Somewhere I remember about a school kid saying:

What starts with "F", ends with "K", and is a whole lot of fun?

The teacher was a lot less upset when she heard that the answer was "firetruck".

There was this at the bottom of a page in "Reader's Digest":

I'm about 8 inches long, hairy at one end and with a hole in the other end. I go in and out all day, and when I come out I'm covered in white goo.

Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm a toothbrush.

A "jiffy" tends to be about 10ms; a shake, 10ns.

An OhNoSecond is slightly shorter -- or longer, depending on your personal reaction time!

If you do much fixed point math, you'd know that a Furman is 1/65536-th of a revolution.

Beauty is measured in Helens while magic is measured in Thaums.

And, of course, everyone knows that a Smoot is 67".