In response to our conversation about euphemistic terms for one’s age, a listener says that he fudged his age on his last big birthday by telling friends he’d turned 21 in Celsius. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “21 in Celsius”
Grant, you remember that conversation we had a few episodes ago about fudging your age using different forms of…
Yeah, jokey stuff, so you don’t have to admit the real number.
Right, right.
And we got another example of that from Doug Clark here in San Diego who writes,
On my last big birthday, I told people I had turned 21 in Celsius.
What about Kelvin?
I really don’t mind being 70, but I couldn’t resist.
And 70 Fahrenheit is pretty close to 21 in Celsius.
I like that.
