[time-nuts] George Carlin "Time Words"

[Bill Hawkins]

IIRC, a lamb doesn't shake its tail once - always twice, quickly.
Hard to imagine the survival benefit there. But it's been a long
time since I saw a live lamb.

Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Darlington
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:03 AM

At LANL in the weapons group, we had a unit of time called a shake that
equals 10ns.  I suppose that means two shakes of a lamb's tail is 20ns.

-Bob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_(time)


On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net> wrote:

> "How about a jiffy or a flash?  Which is quicker, a jiffy or a flash?  I
> think there are two flashes in a jiffy myself.  But God knows how many
> jiffies there are in two shakes of a lambs tail.  But why did they use two
> shakes of a lambs tail? What's wrong with the basic unit of measurement,
one
> shake of a lamb's tail?  We can do our own arithmetic, thank you."