Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 14, 2020

50,000 times or when you run out of money replacing windows – whichever comes first.

Do it twice a day and you’ll get there in less than 70 years.

At about 5 minutes per throw (that’s big), that’s a quarter million minutes. Ten hours is 600 minutes. That’s 416 2/3 10 hour days of throwing. Nah.

I once moved a 16’ by 32’ by (various depths) swimming pool of soil from an excavation to my pickup, two (partly filled) 5-gallon buckets at a time. About 3300 trips, one every 12 minutes (8 minutes when I had a helper half-filling the spare buckets). Probably a bit over 700 hours, not counting driving off and unloading the pickup. Something like 100 days of work spread over 6 or 7 months of duration.

The average desk-job is around 2000 hours per year at the low end. 40 hours times 50 weeks.

I learned to throw a boomerang and have it fly properly. And I took about 2 steps to catch it!

I’m a southpaw; boomerangs are made for northpaws.

We made fiberglass resin boomerangs in junior high shop class. I can’t imagine that happening today. Thanks for the memories.

Wait, why does he need to throw the boomerang 50,000 times? What’s that gonna get him? I get the joke about all the ways to make 50,000, but not what the setup for it was.

LOL! Who needs that many time to learn how to throw a boomerang?

I like the way frazz thinks

“…can’t conceive of doing anything 50,000 times.”

Try stopping breathing after that many breaths? Even for a very slow breather, that would be much less than a week.

Like so many things, perception of time is relative.

Anything is easy if you work at it hard enough.

As a lefty I built my own boomerang with reversed surfaces. First time I threw it properly I was elated, then I saw it was coming back fast and realized I had no desire to catch it.

Reminds me of the logic of “Truckers.” To a nome, dragging a dead rat all the way home seems impossible, but dragging it a little at a time again and again until it’s home is doable.

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once. I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” -Bruce Lee

Can’t imagine doing something 50,000 times, eh? Mention that to your heart. It had that many reps in before you were 7 hours old.