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Why do you guys keep saying that your 250th podcast is the quarter century mark? A century would be 100 so it's your 2.5 century mark or quarter millenium. Just something that bothered me yesderday and at the beginning of todays podcast.
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Ah crap... yet another person got a "gotcha!" on Tom and it wasn't me.
<arghhhh>
-Kevin
I was wondering about this, just didn't end up posting it. A 1/4 of a Millenium -sounds- too big!
Argh, it's been bugging me all morning. Century = 100 years. Per-cent = 1/100. Grr.
I'm going to start seeding the podcast with errors to keep y'all sharp.
...or maybe I already have... mwahahahahahah
-Tom
In your post you said: "mwahahahahahah"
ACTUALLY, it's "mwahahahahahahahahaha"
Get it right, jeez! :-/
ktms
Indeed you would use the word "century" for "one hundred things". So you CAN say a quarter-century for 25 "things".
On the other hand, the definition of millenium is "a period of 1000 years". So you can't really say it's your quarter-millenium podcast. That podcast would happen sometime in A.D. 2255
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