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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Gorilla Weight Distribution

"They're the ___-pound gorilla of office supply distributors." How heavy should that gorilla be? I wasn't sure, so spent the last 10 minutes compiling this groundbreaking original research based on Google hits:

(You can click it for a more readable version.)

Strangely enough, I thought that the gorilla would normally be 700 pounds, but that turns out to be the rarest sub-species. I predict that over time, metaphorical gorillas will evolve toward rounder numbers like 500 and 1000 because they're easier to remember. Though they might also just go extinct...

1 comment:

Andrew said...

Holy crap, a 283,000 lb. gorilla?!?!

Oh, right.