How Long is a Minute?
Back when I was a newbie first grade teacher in Central Illinois, we had a math activity based on both time and estimation. The gist was that the teacher held a stopwatch and the kids had to estimate when a minute had passed. Being six and all, they all called it after 10-15 seconds.
The next activity involved the kids using stopwatches and timing things, then recording them. How long was the lunch line really? How long to walk to the rest rooms? How long did it take 25 kids to put on boots and coats?
I thought of this when I saw Mother Jones’ new article by Marian Wang: 20 Things that Happen in 1 Minute
Before you click, use your best snarky estimates. What in our news or political world happens in exactly (or approximately) 60 seconds?
Egg timer prize to the scissorhead who gets me to laugh the longest.
In one minute, Sarah Palin misconjugates 12 verbs, and too, also.
Mark Sanford ‘Hikes the Appalachian Trail’.
on january 20th, it was the length of time it took for all the problems of 2001-2008 to become obama’s fault.
Nooner pounds back 2 large mai-tai’s
Soylent Blonde Tweets her ignorance to the world while chugging a delicious, satisfying Bud.
46,212- the number of brain cells the average MPS reader loses.
in one minute – the Senate republicans filibuster 7,000 bills, call 24 press conferences to trash Obama, find 36 Obama kenyan birth certificates, make 4,200 cups of tea, and invade 167 countries
Distributorcap, no diapers, affairs, corporate welfare, hookers or little boys?
In Distributorcap’s defense, we’re only talking about a minute here.
The longest time it takes Karl Rove to ejaculate.
Thus, the new divorce.
Maybe Karl’s wife couldn’t stand being married to a traitor.
A minute is how long it would take to list all of the beneficial legislation that has come out of congress in the last 40 years. Another minute was how long it took the DC opportunists to derail any potential benefit.