How Do They Know That? | Eastern North Carolina Now

    My newspaper recently told me that there are 915 million ways to combine Six LEGO Blocks.

    Such published reports beg many questions in my inquisitive mind...

    • Why are such published reports published?
    • Did some guy really sit down and rearrange these six blocks 915,000,000 times (Remember that's 915 Thousand Thousand Times).
    • Was there a guy holding a gun to his head while he was rearranging those six little blocks?
    • Was he paid to do this?
    • If he was paid, he must have been paid with tax-payer funds because no private enterprise would have bothered to do something this silly.
    • They must have rounded up or down because how did it come out that there were exactly 915,000,000 ways?
    • Should they be allowed to round up or down when we are dealing with such an important piece of information?
    • Should the Congressional Subcommittee in charge of such things hold hearings and call witnesses (the block arranger and the guy holding the gun to the block arranger's head)?
    • Why is there a Congressional Subcommittee in charge of such things?

    There are times when I think I may be running out of subject matter for any more Foolishness...Or Is Its? and then I open up my newspaper and I find myself covered up with Foolishness.

    Would I kid u?
    Smartfella