From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!mcguire
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Title: Rieds table
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.454
Posted: Mon Jan 31 11:40:10 1983
Received: Tue Feb  1 04:28:44 1983



     Just now I saw a 'Table of Absolute Values of Common American Phrases
Denoting Nonspecific Quantities'.  The table defined 'a few' as 3 to 6.  The
bible has a different idea.  In Genesis 3:20 a few is defined as 8.  (This is
the number of people saved from the flood in Noah's ark.)

						Ryan