So I'm going to celebrate my 100 as a piece; we've grown up together.
According to the Scoville Scale charting the comparative heat of chillis, at 100 we're a Peperocini, or Cherry Pepper. In Bingo Calls, we're Legs Eleven (11) plus Dirty Gertie (30) and a Brighton Line (59).
In champagne nomenclature, we're half a dozen Balthazars plus a Jeroboam, or simply five Nebuchadnezzars.
As an American banknote, we'd feature the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
As a Euro, our colour is green. Our Roman numeral is C. Our Dewey Decimal Book Classification is Philosophy. Were we a Poker Hand, we'd be 25 Royal Flushes.
In Canasta, we'd be Going Out. Count us in decibels, and we're Firecrackers. Or, as a Haydn symphony, we're The Military (in key G).
We're equivalent to 10 Greek Aceana in length, and 20 bushels (measured in man loads) in weight.
Count us in moons, and we have 5 times the number of Uranus; 50 times more than Mars. But we're only one tenth the size of the number of sweetbreads aboard the Titanic.
10 comments:
Excellent post Sarah, and congratulations on your Century, as the cricketers would have it!
Loved this post - and congrats! One hundred fold
Thanks, Jen. Yes, I missed cricket off the list, didn't I?!
Thanks, Nik. I hope you're well and surviving this wild weather.
Congratulations! And what a lovely celebratory post! Yes, you had better write a load more so that your fans, when we buy your flash collection, have some in there that we don't know :)
Thanks, Tania. I've been feeling a bit disconnected from my writing just lately, with work and what not, so it was nice to take stock of what I've managed to do and to think about what I've learned from the process. But - yes! - more stories, to squirrel away for now.
Wow, Sarah! Congratulations! You are an inspiration to all writers everywhere (especially this one, who is slogging her way through NaNo. Sigh.) :)
Thanks, Madeline, and good luck with Nano!
Congrats on reaching your hundred :-)
Would they make an anthology?
Cheers,
Bob
Thanks, Bob. I should love to have an anthology but "they" have yet to make me an offer (in fairness, I have yet to make a pitch...)
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