An Average Meme
Category: Society & Culture...
Posted Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 04:06 PM [GMT-6]

"Borrowed" (heck, who am I kidding; I even copied the non-standards compliant source code) from Charles over at Dustbury, who likewise stole borrowed it from Accidental Verbosity, an exercise of exquisite memeness.

According to this book, a majority of Americans:

  • Eats peanut butter at least once a week
  • Prefers smooth peanut butter over chunky
  • Can name all Three Stooges
  • Lives within a 20-minute drive of a Wal-Mart
  • Eats at McDonald's at least once a year
  • Takes a shower for approximately 10.4 minutes a day
  • Never sings in the shower
  • Lives in a house, not an apartment or condominium
  • Has a home valued between $100,000 and $300,000
  • Has fired a gun
  • Is between 5 feet and 6 feet tall
  • Weighs 135 to 205 pounds
  • Is between the ages of 18 and 53 (we'll interpret this range as being inclusive
  • Believes gambling is an acceptable entertainment option)
  • Grew up within 50 miles of current home

So, are you or aren't you? An un-Lake-Wobegonly average, that is. (Note: You don't have to be American to play.)

Update: I just realized that I've consistently used the incorrect statistical marker of "average" throughout this post. I think "mode" is probably more proper, but I know Jim will let me know for sure.

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No to:
peanut butter once a week,

shower every day- I prefer baths with extremely hot water,

games of chance, except for purchasing a lottery ticket on Friday and Saturday night *grin* Hey, how else can I ever be independently wealthy?

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at October 30, 2005 05:56 PM

except for purchasing a lottery ticket...

Oh, but that's not g@mbling. It's a sure thing! ;-)

[I almost got caught in my own spam filter.]

Posted by: Eric at October 30, 2005 06:43 PM

Dude! You're 18?

Posted by: Jim at October 30, 2005 06:47 PM

Yeah, and 4' 11". You can call me Young Shorty.

Posted by: Eric at October 30, 2005 06:50 PM

Young Shorty.

In grad school I had Malaysian roommates. They spoke Mandarin all the time. One particular combination of sounds was used frequently and when I asked, they informed me that it was their name for me. It translated to...

"Little white."

They were half right anyway. I was a full six inches taller than the tallest of them.

Posted by: Jim at October 30, 2005 08:37 PM

Same as yours, except:

1. I'm completely non-committal on the peanut butter thing - I love them both. But the kids like smooth, so that's what I usually have.

2. I'm out of the weight range. But appropriately so, given how far I am out of the height range.

Posted by: Brian at October 31, 2005 07:15 AM

love the meme will be posting it in a few days

Posted by: hokulea at October 31, 2005 08:20 AM

"No" on the peanut butter and the Mickey D's. That's why I'm able say "no" on the weight range as well. You have to be careful what you eat if you want that svelte, girlish figure in the magazines. :p

I thought there were 6 stooges: Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, Curly Joe. Pretty much everything else, except the gåmbling, the distance between where I live/ grew up, and I like to take much longer showers, preferably with company. (TMI, most likely).

Posted by: Mr. Freen at October 31, 2005 04:08 PM

I think peanut butter gets a bad rap sometimes, nutritionally-speaking.

Likewise, eating at McD's doesn't have to be a nutritional nightmare. Their yogurt parfaits are really good. (But, other than their salads - which I never eat -- I'm hard-pressed to be an advocate for anything else on their menu.)

Posted by: Eric at November 1, 2005 06:35 AM

mean, median, and mode are all called "average" by folks in common usage, depending on what they want from you. :-)

I'm 20 minutes from Wal-Mart on a good day - if I don't get behind a slow truck.

Posted by: bryan at November 2, 2005 08:29 PM
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