How do you count Mississippis?
|
| Post date: 2021-11-25 03:35:01 |
| Views: 244 |
My 5-year-old has been sufficiently indoctrinated into kindergarten culture that she was counting "one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi ..." when I asked her to give me 5 seconds to finish something before helping her with her coat. Which made me curious, how do children or adults in other parts of the world count seconds? I assume there must be other filler words, in a variety of languages.
For those who've never counted Mississippis, You stick it between numbers to make them take longer to say, typically starting with hide and seek or touch football games in school, when you have to get to five Mississippis before you can blitz the quarterback, and eventually using it to count how far apart the lightning and thunder are to tell how close the storm is.
(I did find a few results on Google, but they were pretty thin and paltry.) |
| Please click Here to read the full story. |
| |
| Other Top and Latest Questions: |
'Silent killers': How AI start-ups are trying to solve one of the retail industry's biggest problems
|
Levi Strauss revenue jumps again, with DTC making up more than half of sales for the first time
|
ICE agents shoot man in California after he 'weaponized' vehicle, DHS says
|
Trump praises Hungary PM Viktor Orbán after Vance calls him at Budapest rally
|
Two-gender musical duos?
|
Movie: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
|
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror: Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
|
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Requiem
|
Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia lead tech rally after Trump announces ceasefire with Iran
|
Markets shift back towards potential Fed rate cut this year with Iran ceasefire in place
|