Based on the colloquialism "baker's dozen", meaning 13 of an item (think your friendly nighborhood baker adding an extra roll to that bag of 12 to reward regular customers), I offer

Banker's dozen: 11 or fewer.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;537657]Based on the colloquialism "baker's dozen", meaning 13 of an item (think your friendly nighborhood baker adding an extra roll to that bag of 12 to reward regular customers), I offer

Banker's dozen: 11 or fewer.[/QUOTE]Not to be confused with

[b]Bankers dozin'[/b] Their reaction to the word "fiduciary."

If necropost is to revive a dead thread after months or years of no activity, ICUpost is to keep a thread on life support (by infrequent occasional postings).

[QUOTE=davar55;393419]
capitalism: a much maligned and rarely understood socio-economic system that stresses freedom of individual rights
and thus is the only means of achieving freedom from want.

socialism: the belief that you can have your lunch and eat it too (without paying the piper)..[/QUOTE]Socialism: the belief that you can have someone else's lunch, while ignoring the reality that to everyone else, [B]you are someone else[/B].

[QUOTE=only_human;393890]Vapor pressure: the need to deliver on promises.
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Vapor pressure: a measure of the rate at which tools, unguarded cash, and other useful things depart from their intended storage locations.

[QUOTE=davar55;393985]
A monetary unit in econ terms must be a unit of money[/QUOTE]
Circular definition: See definition, circular.


Any engineering student properly taught knows that units can be treated like variables and for computations involving them to make sense they must balance, or cancel out to leave a dimensionless expression. The same rules apply to units as to variables when performing algebra. Multiply one side of an equation by a conversion factor, and you must do the same to the other side.
Example: 1$ =100cents = 10^2 cents is an identity or conversion factor. Applying it to an equation is literally multiplying both side of an equation by one. The especially careful will explicitly indicate US$ and US cent, or AU$ and AU cent, or Mexican peso and Mexican centavo, or whatever.
Not all $ are created equal. [URL]http://oldcurrencyvalues.com/confederate_money/[/URL]

[QUOTE=petrw1;394474]I was told many years ago in corporate Canada that:

A "committee" is a human-like life form with 12 arms, 12 eyes, 12 legs, 6 noses but NO brains.[/QUOTE]
Committee: a group of n individuals operating with the aggregate knowledge of log(n) and the effective intelligence of the least intelligent among them. Given that intelligence is approximately gaussian-distributed, as n increases, min IQ drops without apparent limit. See also manager or committee chair. This alone is adequate justification for limiting the size of legislative bodies, appellate court panels, and emergency response units.

[QUOTE=davar55;402864]Garrot: A device used to save the life of an immitator.[/QUOTE]Garrot: what happens if you leave a beached gar in the sun too long. Put it in the live well or on ice.

[QUOTE=only_human;414707]vim:
1. Something often present with vigor but seemingly never by itself.
2. (extra credit) a text editor.
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3. (archaic): Versatile Interface Monitor. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYM-1[/url]

[QUOTE=only_human;414707]vim:
2. (extra credit) a text editor.
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Generally pronounced "vile".

[QUOTE=xilman;537738]Generally pronounced "vile".[/QUOTE]Emacs: An operating system disguised as a text editor.