Fun facts about 200

– At a less well-known battle, 200 Spartans successfully held off 12 Greek toga-makers, who tried to convinced the muscle-bound fighters that they didn’t need to show it ALL off. Yelling, “This. Is. SPARTA!!!” the Spartans tossed the Greeks and their bolts of fabric off some cliffs.

– It took 1 seamstress 200 hours to sew the gold beading on Eva Longoria’s Emmy dress. It wouldn’t have taken nearly that long, but the seamstress only had four fingers.

– I read over 200 manuscripts in a year.

– Much like a group of crows is called a “murder”, and a group of otters are a “romp”, 200 sparrows are a “ninja armada.”

– The 200th song on my iTunes jukebox on my work computer, when organized by album name, is Beggar’s Blues by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. When I organize it by song title, it is Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffett.

– It took Fishnetmag 200 days to respond to a submission of another of my and Doyce’s stories, but they said yes!

– 200 candy corn pieces are 18 points on Weight Watchers. For 200 points, I could have 2200 candy corn!

– Yesterday was 200 days until our wedding day!!

All of the above facts are patently false, gross exaggerations, based on bad math, or just plain wrong. Except the last.

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  1. DeAnna

    Congrats on the story!

    Congrats on the upcoming wedding!

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