Things I can't do off the top of my head:
1) Multiplication
2) Tell my right from my left
3) Division
4) Addition or subtraction with numbers larger than 5
5) Not get lost, even in familiar places
6) Math
Things I can do off the top of my head:
1) Answer Star Wars-based trivia questions.
2) Answer Harry Potter-based trivia questions.
3) Answer Hunger Games-based trivia questions.
4) Explain the very real social issues grappled with on Downton Abbey.
5) Make tacos.
I'd rate my usefulness to humanity at about a 4.
I can vouch for all of them.
ReplyDeleteI think you are my favorite cousin. do you watch merlin?
ReplyDeleteEmma, you *are* my favorite cousin. I haven't seen Merlin, but I have seen Legend of the Seeker, which is alternately awesome and unintentionally hilarious, and if you haven't seen it, you should. I just might give Merlin a shot.
ReplyDeleteYou are underrating the value of knowing how to make tacos. On a scale from 1-10, I give you a 9 for value to humanity for the following reasons (as judging is one of my favorite things to do, I went ahead and gave myself the ultimate say on this one):
ReplyDelete1. No one knows their right from left without holding up hands to see which one makes a 'L'. (You may be able to score a 10 if you can correctly tell me if that should be written 'an L' or 'a L').
2. Basic math skills are important enough to count for 1 point. But, as noted above, that can be made up in grammar skills.
I would say "an L" because you pronounce the letter L like it's "el", and the whole a/an thing is about pronunciation more than the actual letter. Hence the annoying "an historian." BOOM: grammared.
DeleteI completely disagree with point 1. EVERYONE knows their right from left. I guarantee you there is a word for "left" and a different word for "right" in EVERY SINGLE LANGUAGE - especially the languages that don't use the Latin alphabet with the letter "L."
ReplyDeleteSome of us have more trouble readily identifying the direction 'right' and 'left'. NO JUDGMENT. (Also, I just spent a few minutes debating whether I should write judgment or judgement. Words are hard.)
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