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List of words that the Kaiser took away in nineteen tickety two.
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These read like Terry Pratchett came up with them
Side note: I can’t wait to call myself twenty-dickety years old.
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I was thinking the same thing! He actually didn't come up with those - his were Yan tan tethera :) The picture is hexadecimal if you are interested like I was!
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My grandad used to count sheep like that. "Yan, tan, tethere, methera... etc until he got to 20, then put a stone in his pocket and start counting again
I never understood this because how many sheep would run past when I'm looking for a stone on the ground to pick up to mark 20?
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This sounds silly, but for us programmers do you understand how convenient this would be?
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"one bitey" is a good one to keep in pocket for whenever you see 8bit integers.
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I use the annteen, frosty-five, annty-four system.
I’ll be looking at a hex dump and going, what’s this ernsty-bet doing here?
Edit: I have been informed this is known as the Magnuson method.
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oh hell yeah. you telling me THIS could be our measuring system but instead we chose cowardice?
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"eighteen, nineteen, abbleteen, b-"
"Wait! Did you just say abbleteen!? Wtf is that? Did you mean abteen? You can just make up words, you dumbass. Abbleteen... ppft what a loser."
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