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I've been making this table in Word Perfect, typing up metaphors that people used in one of our research project's online forums. Varying numbers of them appear on each of the 263 pages of the forum printout, so there's no real way to predict how many rows I'd need in my table. When I got to the end of the first 48 rows, I added 100 more. When I got to the end of the first 148 rows, I thought, let's splurge, I'll add 1000 more.
Just now, I typed in the last metaphor and decided for curiosity's sake to scroll down and see how much I'd overestimated when I'd made 1000 more rows. But that was it. The table was full. Exactly.
And that may well be the most interesting thing that happened to me today, other than discovering that spanakopeta and tangelos go really, really well together.
Just now, I typed in the last metaphor and decided for curiosity's sake to scroll down and see how much I'd overestimated when I'd made 1000 more rows. But that was it. The table was full. Exactly.
And that may well be the most interesting thing that happened to me today, other than discovering that spanakopeta and tangelos go really, really well together.