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1. Sid Morrison
   January 15th, 2008 at 8:40 am

   You’ve got a critical typo here — the most significant digit (the leftmost 2) in the unit conversion was left off. It should read “1 potrzebie = 2.263348517438173216473 mm”, not 263348517438173216473 mm.

   Life can now resume.

2. badiuk
   January 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am

   Nie od dzi? wiadomo ?e w Polsce ka?dy jest w ‘potrzebie’ ;)))

3. skoteina
   January 15th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   i remember reading the original in MAD back in the ’50s. my dad, a physicist at NACA (the pre-sputnik precursor to NASA), examined it and proclaimed it sound and consistent. viva potrzebie!

4. Alex
   January 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

   Thanks Sid - I’ve fixed this life-stopping error!

5. aware
   January 15th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

   farshimmelt (fuhr SHIM mlt) is Yiddish for moldy/molded. like in German: verschimmelt.

   i wonder what the other words mean. halavah might be “helluva/hell of a”…

6. Alex
   January 16th, 2008 at 2:12 am

   halavah - as everybody knows - is “a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416″

7. XuYu
   January 16th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

   Your link doesn’t work for me. Maybe this one is better?

   http://www.google.com/search?q=1+potrzebie+in+mm

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