Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Rules of Thumb

Defined. A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess.

"Try this: Count the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, and add 37. No, you didn't just calculate your age in cricket years - you measured the temperature outdoors in degrees Fahrenheit. You just used a rule of thumb."

And this site has every "rule of thumb" known to man in their database. It's so interesting! If you don't see one and you know it is true, you can contribute it to the site.

Here is another rule of thumb from the site:
"A lobster tail should always curl. If this does not happen, the lobster is dead or dying. If the tail does not curl on a boiled lobster, the lobster was dead before it was boiled."

See, there is a plethora of tips you didn't even know existed!

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