The other day I was walking through our family room and my wife was watching CSPAN. (She watches CSPAN 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 a lot. I walk through the family room a lot.) On this walk through I was shocked by something I heard coming out of the box that I had not heard in a long time. I stopped and stared in disbelief. I thought for a long moment I had gone back in time.
The dedicated congressman who was hurrying through his pontificating because his 2 minutes were running out said, “Seven hundred thousand...”. There it is. Don’t you see it? I have not heard anyone of my elected representatives say a hundred thousand of anything in a long time.
I must qualify the prior statement... What I mean is I have not heard a hundred thousand of anything that was not hooked on to a Million or a Billion or a Trillion, as in...
Sixteen Trillion, Five Billion, Three Hundred & Fifty Million, Two Hundred & Thirty Five Thousand
There it is on the end... “Two Hundred & Thirty Five Thousand”. The hundred thousands are always on the end. Such puny numbers are never spoken all by their lonesome anymore.
That’s progress ... or is it?
Would I kid u?
