In regards to using citrus as stream velocity meters (let it go
downstream, take measurements, yada yada) I heard that in Australia,
whichever citrus fruit you use, it goes up stream (ha ha).
Rick Rego
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:02:35 -0800 Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net> writes:
> At 09:01 AM 12/14/00, you wrote:
> >Orange...Hummmm. My wife used a lemon when she was working on her
> MS Thesis.
> >Perhaps this is an East Tennessee derivation. Maybe we should
> recalibrate.
> >Does anyone know the orange to lemon ratio? We prefer to express
> all
> >measurements in dog-minutes. There are seven dog-years to a human
> >year...you'll have to do the math.
> >Man, I hope she doesn't have to redo her whole thesis!
> >J.R.
>
> JR, if these intruments could be called field aids, would hers have
> been
> called a.... ah, never mind.
>
> Lemon to orange ratio you say? How about the Florida citrus growers
> to
> California citrus growers ratio?
>
> Also, you don't get an accurate count using Florida oranges, and
> California
> oranges tend to go left :-)
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
>
>
>
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