Muppetry

[sobrique]

A whimsical thought crossed my mind. How would one quantify the level of 'muppetry' iin an action, and what unit would you use?

I would have thought that the muppetry scale would be logarithmic, with a 1 being a 'go out to car, realise that keys are on desk', and going up steadily to the 'almost criminally stupid' level at about 10.0

So things like leaving your glasses in your car, when you're going to the cinema might be a 1.5 or so.

But what to call the units? I mean, the traditional one is to name them after someone, but that could be a little mean. Referring to a "1.0 on the muppet scale" or "1.5 muppet points" just doesn't have the right ring either.

Something like "about 15 kelvin" or "25 newtons" or "1.4 meters" would be about right...

Thoughts anyone?

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[sobrique.livejournal.com]

That was sort of the idea ;p

It's more that a certain someone who shall remain nameless, went to the cinema last night, and managed to not wear his glasses - whilst his eyesight is good, the subtitles might have been a problem.

Of course, that's quite clearly _somewhere_ on the muppet scale, say about 0.8 kermits, since whilst it's Daft (sic) it's an understandably daft thing to do.