Briscosecond - brilliant. Law & Order junkie that I am - I always knew there had to be a measure for that.
Posted by Jules on 02/27 at 11:08 AM
Shagosecond- The amount of time it takes to realize that the sound you just heard is the door opening and your child catching you in the act!
Posted by Jeff A on 02/27 at 12:01 PM
cellosecond - the time, usually in the middle of (a) church, (b) a meeting for work, or (c) a movie, that it takes to realize you’ve forgotten to turn the ringer off on your mobile phone.
windosecond - the time it takes to lose an entire new document when your computer gets a message from the mother ship and reboots.
danosecond - the time lapse between clicking onto the chucklehut and finding yourself caught up in the writing.
(yeah, ok, i’m a kiss-ass. ;) )
Posted by romy on 02/27 at 12:29 PM
Romy, I used to play the cello, so I’m proposing a second definition for your first term: the duration of time between picking up an instrument you used to play and realizing you can’t play for shit anymore.
Posted by nikita on 02/27 at 01:22 PM
BRISCOSECOND!!! i am *such* the L&O junkie!! i’m really missing it here in spain! if they showed it with catalan overdub, i’d still watch it!!!
i dunno if you watch reruns of the show on TNT, but they do this thing that truly illustrates the shortness of the briscosecond. they minimize the closing credits of the first rerun episode while running the beginning of the next one on top, so that there is no beginning and no end. you can’t even run to the loo....it’s that fast!
Posted by on 02/27 at 03:12 PM
Prada NEVER goes out of style. But IF it did you simply have to wait 20 years and it’ll make a comeback. ie. Bell bottoms and toe socks.
My addition to the list…
Snorkosecond: The length of time between taking a drink of your beverage and realizing you’re about to snorkle it out through your probiscus instead of simply chuckling.
Posted by on 02/27 at 04:36 PM
So funny. My questions is: why in the hell do they need to measure something that damned fast???
Posted by Kim on 02/27 at 06:59 PM
nikita, i would call that the pianosecond. but yeah, point taken. ;)
Posted by romy on 02/28 at 07:21 AM
I’m more interested to know why those guys think that I believe that the “photo” they took is an electron zinging about. That’s the picture of the tie-dyed sheet that hung on our apartment wall while I was in law school that I wanted people to believe was “art.”
These damn physicists ...
Posted by Bill on 02/28 at 07:47 AM
nikita, I"m so glad I’ve got someone to share a cellosecond with. I was actually reading this in yet another bloggosecond.
Posted by Anji on 02/29 at 02:59 AM
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