Haha! That jury deliberation room in “A Dozen Angry Men” must’ve been very crowded!
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About as crowded as the bathrooms in “Cheaper by the Dozen”. The movie about the family with 50 children.
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Maybe they should have just replied “Okay, that will be a dozen dollars.”
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And that bonus is an example of a lagniappe (I had to learn that word for spelling bees when I was in elementary school).
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And 101 Dalmatians was about a couple with 2 dozen dogs plus 1. 
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At your spelling bee did they pronounce it “lawn-yawp”?
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No, I only ever heard it pronounced as “lan-yap”. For a young student, that alone made the spelling among the most obscure ever encountered.
I don’t buy it,
I think the whole thing is a put-on.
No, because those are the ones who seem to believe they have a divine right to breed like rabbits.
Or bacteria.
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I’m Not Sure about that conclusion.
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I’m sorry, I pushed Like and it was on a perfect. dozen
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Evolution is sorta random. Not every change is a win.
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Well, ya know, in the past. Where those guys are still stuck. Distant, distant past.
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So when her doctor tells her she has a half-dozen pre-cancerous spots on her face and neck, will she expect to have 25 spots frozen?
Boy I bet she’d have a hell of a time trying to buy a footlong sub at Subway.
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I would love to see her have to do a “Dozen” hours of community service (or maybe two dozen hours of remedial math classes)…
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A thing I like to remind myself and others is this:
Modern humans have existed for perhaps a hundred thousand years. Our ancestors from the last 5,000 generations, if they got a high school education today, would seem no more or less smart than current humans.
The wheel was invented maybe 6,000 years ago.
That implies there were 4,700 generations of normal everyday modern people – whole cultures arose and vanished, geography itself changed, countless Newtons and Einsteins came and went – before one single person figured out that a circle rolls on the fucking ground.
That is to say, every single human – on our own – is very, very, very dumb. If you take the smartest person alive, and take away everything they’ve learned from other people, you will have a primate that almost certainly couldn’t figure out how to tie their own shoelaces.
So that’s a useful bit of perspective on folks who think they’re smarter than everyone else without finishing high school.
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I’ll bet dollars to donuts that she’d know how much a dozen is if they told her, “Okay, that’ll be a dozen bucks.”
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