There are two pips in a beaut, four beauts in a lulu, eight lulus in a doozy, and sixteen doozies in a humdinger. No one seems to know how many humdingers there are in a lollapalooza.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Carlin invents a hierarchy of nonsense words to mock how people quantify intensity or scale without real basis.
- In plain terms
- He lists made-up units of measurement to show how arbitrary they are.
- What can you take from it?
- Quantifying vague concepts often lacks real meaning.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we measure intensity?
- Are all units arbitrary?
Another view
It ignores contexts where subjective scales are useful.
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