WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT?
You have often met Tommy Kiiowall the chap who "heard that years ago." Next time you meet him, " ask how many threepenny bits laid side by side can be placed on the surface of a halfcrown without overlapping the He will probably suggest throe or four] and will doubt the fact that one is enough. When he has failed to prove you to be wrong, get him to tell you how many pennies, piled one on the other, it take's to equal the height of a penny standing Oil its edge. He will be careful not to over-estimate this tiuie, so will probably guess eight or nine. Then you tell him 19 are required.
If he is still sure about things in general, ask him how far the human
eye can see on a clear day. He may hazard 30 or 40 miles, whereupon you give him tne K.O. by- announcing that 83,000,000 miles is more like it, the distance from the earth to the sun.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 18
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