June 18 2022 - Weighing In

 

Body weight.   This is something women think about more than men.  I expect we think about total weight, proportions and dimensions.  But I hadn't thought about how much the various body systems and parts weigh in relation to the total. Below is a chart of the percentages of total body weight for the various sections of the body. Being in percentages, choose 200 pounds for a male  to double the percentage number, and  choose 100 pounds for a woman for the numbers to be equivalent.    And what about this view of a body.  Based on a 180 pound male, here are some numbers for body systems and organs.   1. Blood, water, and lymph system: 100 pounds Equivalent of: filled 10-gallon aquarium 2. Bones: 21 pounds Equivalent of: Road bike 3. Brain: 2.5 pounds Equivalent of: Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 4. Heart: 0.25 pounds Equivalent of: Burger King Double Whopper 5. Other Muscles (Everything from your stomach to your biceps): 52 pounds Equivalent of: A small boxing heavy bag 6. Carotid-Artery Walls (in the Neck): 20 milligrams Equivalent of: Half of a staple 7. Kidneys: Half pound Equivalent of: A small chili at Wendy's 8. Liver: 3.25 pounds Equivalent of: Four 12-ounce cans of Budweiser 9. Lungs: 1.8 pounds Equivalent of: A basketball and a football 10. Pancreas: 0.2 pound Equivalent of: 28 sugar packets 11. Prostate: 18 to 20 grams, or just barely an ounce Equivalent of: About three cherry tomatoes 12. Skin: 12 pounds Equivalent of: The clothes you're wearing, plus heavy boots and an overcoat 13. Spinal Cord (Nerves, Not Bone): 1 ounce Equivalent of: A short phone cord 14. Testicles: Less than 2 ounces Equivalent of: Two squash balls    I know the human body is mostly water - up to 60%.  All parts have of water - the brain and heart are 73% water, lungs about 83%, and so on.  A water molecule is capable of performing so many functions in the human body. On to a lovely June Day where Grimsby celebrates 100 years as a town.

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Knock-Knock

I noticed yesterday that there were lots of kinds of jokes. The joke cycle is a collection of jokes about a single target or situation.  It has a consistent narrative structure and type of humour.  Here are a few we know: elephant light bulb knock-knock chicken The list in Wikipedia is only a subset of all the cycles.  If one goes to the entry for Russian jokes, one finds a series of Russian cycle jokes there. The Wikipedia entry gives you a sense of how extensively humour has been applied to all kinds of circumstances, and how classification systems have been developed to organize jokes, to describe them and to understand them better. I hadn't heard of the 'two cow jokes' - political satire around the 1940s Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour. Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk. Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk. Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Another cycle that I found interesting is the Manta joke.  These are German jokes about a male driver of an Opel Manta - who is an aggressive driver, dull, lower class, macho, and infatuated with both his car and his blonde hairdresser girlfriend. There were two successful movies based on this premise.  Here is an example What does a Manta driver say after crashing into a tree? – Komisch--hab doch gehupt! ("Odd. I did honk!") This field is extensive - can you get a PhD in jokes?  With that question, one retrieves s long list of PhD jokes - demonstrating it is a joke cycle.  With an improvement in terminology one can retrieve various thesis topics for PhDs. Our floral image of the day - the stake says "Sweet Spirit".

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School Yard Fences

Why do schools have fences?  To keep children in or to keep intruders out?  When I started primary school, the school yard was open to the street.  There was also a big ditch that we would run down towards the street.  Later on, they filled in the ditch and put a fence there - separating the playground area from the road.  I thought it was for child safety to stay off the street. School yard fences are chain-link.  The process was developed in England in 1844.  It is a staple of fence building around the world, and comes with many names:  wire netting, wire-mesh fence, chain-wire fence, cyclone fence, hurricane fence, or diamond-mesh fence.   Fences have been with us since prehistoric times.  What are the famous fences around the world? 1. The Great Wall of China is not technically a fence...but it seems to be number 1 on the list - it is 13,000 miles long. 2. The Dingo Fence of Australia is next - 3,400 miles long.  The Guinness Book of Records considers this the longest fence in the world. 3. The Fence at Buckingham Palace - beauty is its distinction rather than length. 4. Aquarium Fence in Turkey - another art fence with sea creatures. 5. Lock Fence in Pari's Pont des Arts - the weight of the thousands of locks on a 6.5-foot section of the bridge's fencing collapsed. 6. Bra Fence in New Zealand - hundred of brassieres mysteriously appeared on a stretch of wire farm fencing in 1999 becoming a tourist attraction 7. The Fence of Carnegie Mellon University is considered "the most painted object in the world" by the Guinness Book of World Records. The article on this fence is HERE.  A wooden fence  it seems to have a history of being painted for more than 70 years. It had 609 coats of paint between 1993 and 2007.  It collapsed under the weight of the paint so was rebuilt in concrete. Painting continues. There is one repeatable joke about fences - I have given it the /e to indicate both genders on this blond/e joke: Why did the blond/e climb the chain-link fence? To see what was on the other side. Today's purple flower is the Paulownia Tree.  It is an invasive tree further south in the U.S. , but here it isn't very hardy, so is considered special.  There's a large one at Vineland Research Station at the Foreign Affair Winery. Let's see if it blooms this year.