Comments on: Live Chat With John Hodgman on Washington Post

By: sebastiano

sebastiano — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Apple Hodgman, modest? HA!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

OM, how about the unit of force used for the impact of Chuck Norris on the ground from tripping over a gopher hole: The Groundchuck.

By: Raines Cohen

Raines Cohen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

John Hodgman is too modest

Isn’t that sentence inherently oxymoronic?

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sebastiano: don’t be a douche.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s hard to imagine the world containing an extra third of a chuck.

Even if they keep it in England.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“How much wood would Chuck chuck if Chuck chucked woodchucks wood?”

…I answered this one a couple of years ago on BB, IIRC. It’s the same amount of ground that a groundhog would grind if a groundhog could grind ground.

By: LSK

LSK — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I arrived too late for the chat, and this question still burns in my mind: Is there any truth to the allegations that John Linnell, John Flansburgh, Jonathan Coulton, and (you,) John Hodgman are in league to enslave the world through words and music?

By: OM

OM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…And is the unit of measuring the level of laughter when someone gets racked in the nuts hard called called the Chuckle, then? Or is a large measurement of Chucks called a Wagon of Chucks?

By: Simon Bradshaw

Simon Bradshaw — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Of course, since metrication, the Imperial Chuck is more and more being supplanted by what’s commonly termed the Metric Chuck. Now strictly speaking there’s no such thing, since as any fule no the metric unit of roundhouse kicks is the damme, named for Jean-Claude Van Damme. (SI practice is that units named for people have lower-case names.)

But, in the same way that 1000 kg is so close to one ton that it is known as the ‘metric ton’ or tonne, and there’s even a track event of 1600m as the ‘metric mile’, it turns out that the damme is close enough to the Imperial Chuck (0.973 Imp Chucks to be precise) that it’s become known as the ‘metric Chuck’ and increasingly references to a Chuck mean that, not the original Imperial Chuck. However, the spelling ‘Chuckke’, by analogy with the tonne, has singularly failed to catch on. It’s just too silly.

By: Will Byrd

Will Byrd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Xeni, Are you in luck! My sister and I just created a website specifically for pimping John Hodgman live online chats. --Will

By: ianm

ianm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Totally off topic, but since this seems to be somewhat of an off topic thread (on the topic of John Hodgman), I wanted to convey how much I enjoyed your TED talk.

I just watched it this pasted weekend and thought it was clever, humourous, and very sweet. Well done, and very apropos for a whimsical little TED spot.

If you haven’t seen it, check it out: A brief digression on matters of lost time.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…What’s the unit of force for vomiting in disgust over nausea caused by too many Chuck Norrisisms?

The Upchuck.

By: Mindpowered

Mindpowered — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mmm…

I wonder if Mr. Hodgman knows…

How much wood would Chuck chuck if Chuck chucked woodchucks wood?