Counting things

[j4]

fivemack muses on the comparative numbers of mice, humans, rabbits, cows and wildebeeste, reminding me of a pub conversation recently in which the question of how many Magdalen deer you'd have to kill in order to feed all Magdalen's students was hotly debated[*]. This led to me asking AQA "How many venison steaks would you get from one adult deer?", to which they responded: "An adult deer weighs 115-135lbs. Half of that is bones and hide. There's 1 cubic ft of lean venison. It yields 30-40 steaks, depending on their size." So I just thought I'd share that knowledge with the internet.

Yes, I am procrastinating.

[*] for "hotly debated" read "amicably discussed over a post-theatre beer".

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's seriously addictive.

I've just seen a repeated question too: "Who would in a fight, ross allen or barney the dinosaur" [sic]. Their reply is that they think Barney would win, because he is a dinosaur.

The lower-case "thx" after every answer is incredibly annoying.

[covertmusic.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to hook it up to Twitter because, well, self-evidently everything in the Universe wants to be hooked up to Twitter. The information eschaton must be immantenized!