I just read someone somewhere say "one hundred one" is 101. WTF? You can't do that. That doesn't make sense.

Of course it's 101. If I wanted to say 100.1, I would say "one hundred point one," or "one hundred and one-tenth".

Although if I wanted to say 101 I would probably just say "one oh one". As in the highway.

I would say 100 point one for 100.1 and "one hundred and one" or "one oh one" for 101.

If we were talking about the freeway, I would put a the in front of it too.

I just love this painting: [link]

It's from this exhibit:

Alex Pardee has an art show opening at Corey Helford Gallery on January 8, 2010 in Los Angeles. The gallery will give 500 mini giclee prints to the first 500 guests on opening night.

Coming off his work on the 2011 feature film release, "Sucker Punch", where Pardee partnered with filmmaker Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. Pictures to create original artwork for the film as well as art direction for the Comic-Con marketing campaign, Pardee has created "Vertigo", his most ambitious art exhibition to date. In his first solo at Corey Helford Gallery, the artist unveils the art of capturing nightmares with a collection of thirteen acrylic-on-cradled wood panel paintings, which are physical representations of darkly intense dream-state visions in the unique Pardee style. Each painting is accompanied by a framed document chronicling the nightmare's history, as related by world-famous nightmare hunter, Verti Parker, who inspired Pardee to create the exhibition. Also on display throughout the gallery will be a series of artifacts and evidence from the famous nightmare hunter's archive, including the actual music box he used to exorcise nightmares from patients, as well as an eight-foot taxidermy monster from Verti's very first nightmare hunt.

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eta: Jilli might want to avoid this second link.

I was mucky in my post. One hundred one can be 101. It's alien to my ears, though. One hundred and one can't be 100.1. It's unclear.

I was taught that "one hundred one" is more correct than "one hundred and one" but they both mean 101.

One hundred and one can't be 100.1. It's unclear.

Yeah. I don't see how you could omit the "point" here. I mean, it might make more sense that "ten one" is 10.1, but it's still wrong.

If we were talking about the freeway, I would put a the in front of it too.

Angeleno.

There is a bunch of BofA billboards at transit stops all over SF right now, talking about how you can check your bank account while you're "waiting for the MUNI" or "the BART". ::tears hair::

It's so annoying there's even an article in the Chronicle about it.

The BofA ads here say you can bank while in line for the taco truck. Huh.

Chicagoans tend to throw "the" before grocery store names, as well as making the store names possessive. So, instead of "Jewel," we go to "the Jewel's." It's a thing.

We call local highways by their honorary names instead of the numbers, so instead of "94," it's "the Edens," which makes traffic reports difficult for nonresidents to interpret. Traffic reporters never mention highway numbers--it's always "the Kennedy is 53 minutes from O'Hare to the Hubbard tunnel; the Tri-State is 22 minutes from Lake Cook to Dempster; the Jane Adams is clear."

For lunch style protein, back in the day when my kids wouldn't eat sandwiches, I'd send jerky or a hunk of summer sausage. You need to be careful because of the sodium but both are high in protein, easy to pack and are particularly good for kids who generally aren't hungry at lunch.