2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.

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Journalism 101 : Basic Math

January 17th, 2006 by Kevin

Lesson One

\”I will hand over my guns when they ask me to,\” said 19-year-old Khusrow, who like many Afghans goes by one name. A 300mm pistol protruded underneath his leather jacket. \”It\’s OK. All of the terrorists are gone.\”

For those of you that are mathematically-disabled, there are two things wrong with this statement.

A) A 300 mm is not a pistol
2) A 300 mm firearm is more likely to be the main weapon* on a WWI battleship** than carried around in someone\’s coat

*300 mm = 11.8\”
** For comparison, the USS Minnesota had 12\” guns and the USS Arizona had 14\” guns

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  1. Harvey Says:

    Wow… that’s BAD.

    It’s not like they just typo’d an extra 0.

    That’s not even CLOSE :-/

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