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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOk, when counting seconds do you use thousand or Mississippi???
One one thousand, or one Mississippi. One one thousand, is only 4 counts, and one Mississippi is actually 5 counts so which one do you use??
Cartoonist
(7,326 posts)Musically speaking
Edited to say it should begin with "and a" so that the number comes on a downbeat.
nevergiveup
(4,772 posts)one lollipop, two lollipop, three lollipop..........
Lochloosa
(16,084 posts)hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)all in how you say it, I guess.
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)Everyone of them that I've payed with knows I can't count so its not embarassing.
SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)All the hip kids count in micro-mooches. I think it works out to 0.95 seconds. Close enough for me.
11days * 24 hrs/day * 3600 secs/hr = 950,400 secs
2naSalit
(86,968 posts)Made me think of this. (I love the count-out at the end).
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,034 posts)unblock
(52,503 posts)Both perfect tempo for counting out seconds.
sdfernando
(4,959 posts)Its not accurate enough. I count nano-seconds...I have a really talented 😛
fierywoman
(7,709 posts)(a 20th c. Italian composer...)
LAS14
(13,792 posts)csziggy
(34,140 posts)nolabear
(42,006 posts)Ive done it since I was a kid and did jump rope. The rhythm just works. Which is funny considering how much of my youth was spent in Mississippi.
Harker
(14,138 posts)Five seconds. Like clockwork, one could say.