Ladies And Gentlemen: I Present: THE ANALOGIZER

[AB Editor]

Ever found yourself unable to quantify something in a meaningless way?

Here is your Answer!

http://www.tomscott.com/analogizer/

Now you too can write tabloid style articles claiming the kind of ludicrous comparisons we've all come to know and love.

For example:

20 fl oz is equivalent to the urine produced by a male Norway rat in 18.8 days.

Hey, why not drop it into casual conversation, like so:

"Beak-to-tail, 3 metre of bufflehead ducks would be enough for Sidney, British Columbia's coat of arms 4.2 times. - dontchaknow?"

Enjoy and share please,

Spare Ed

[Davethedog]

You get the same answer everytime - BORING

[snags]

If Richard Madeley charged 30p per hair, it would cost roughly £75 to create a 2 cms wide curtain of them.

[Ankou]

it can't anal ogize 10 inches.

i'll have to use something else.

[AB Editor]

No you don't - you have to enter a weight, length etc.

Try:

3 miles
and
12mm

all the best

Spare Ed

[kawakiri]

Meaningless use of web space.

[AB Editor]

True enough kawakiri - but I think there is plenty of room out there in cyberspace so it's probably not a problem.

Spare Ed

[Greedyfly]

lmao

[Count-A-Strong]

30 tonnes of caffeine could kill the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 15385 times.

Very useful.

[AB Editor]

2 grams of raindrops would be enough to slightly annoy each member of Il Divo 7.1 times.

[steg]

An average skydiver falling 3333 million cm would reach a terrible, bone-crushing death in around 165.3 hours...........................coooooooooooo
oooool

[dustypuss]

Trust the Ed to give him self a sticky

365 gallons is equal to the leaks from Thames Water pipes every 1 minutes during 2006.

[AB Editor]

1 kilogram of meadow jumping mice would be enough to put one in the Queen's bed every day for 57 days.

[AB Editor]

90000 kilogram is as heavy as 12 double decker buses' height-worth of elephants, 1.3 times over.

[Greedyfly]

I keep getting that one ed for any thousand tonne weight. =(

The smaller ones are fun though.

[kawakiri]

Changed my mind:
1 peck of vegetable oil would contain 37 times the recommended daily calories for a woman.

[kawakiri]

And another:
If everyone on earth walked at a brisk pace, they'd collectively cover 1 light year in 36.9 years.