Monday, September 23, 2024
Oodle
Update: My wife discovered that an Oodle is 40g of dry pasta.
How much is an oodle, do you think? It has to be much less than 33% of the maximum total. When someone has oodles of something, you don't think of that as being two parts out three, even though that technically works. Is it 1% of the total, then? That would make it a superfluous term. So it is more than, or less than, 1%?
3% = 1 Oodle. Let's take a look at that. If you have oodles of poodles, that would mean some goodly percentage of the number of poodles a person might be reasonably expected to have. A breeder might have what, fifteen? If someone has thirty-seven poodles we begin to suspect that they aren't really paying the amount of attention to each one that they should, right? Breeders my do a somewhat creditable or competent job, but there must be a maximum number of oodles of poodles a human can manage.
I don't think we have a credible case in the other direction. I don't think that 0.2 items = 1 Oodle.
What say ye? What is the rule for this measure? It it like a thum, or a rod, or a parsec, or a kilopond?
7 comments:
It's more than a grundle, less than a crap-ton
An oodle is an old British measurement of liquid volume, equal to two thirds of a gob. As in: "We have oodles and gobs of beer remaining."
Is a gob equivalent to a buttload?
This is a Sorites Paradox, AVI.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Donna, a butt is an actual imperial unit, so a buttload is two hogsheads
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit)
It was a joke, Grim.
So is the imperial unit, which could vary between less than five hundred to more than a thousand gallons.
https://theoodle.info/
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