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Hours per Mile

July 26, 2018

A braggart says they run 14 hours per mile, which is extremely slow, then tries and fails to run away.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-07-26-hours-per-mile/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "I can run maybe 7 miles an hour." B: "Pssh. I can run twice that many hours per mile." A: "Wow!"

A: "Wait... did you say 'hours per mile'?" B: "Oh, who can remember?" A: "And... are you running away from me?" B: "PLEASE, LEGS — MAKE ME FAST JUST THIS ONCE"

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