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Comment author: thomblake 05 January 2012 07:09:33PM 0 points [-]

Scientists have shown that we only use 10% of our time!

I'm totally going to quote that out of context.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 January 2012 08:09:23PM 0 points [-]

I'm totally going to quote that out of context.

I look forward to seeing it asserted everywhere. Note to future digital archaeologists: the grandparent is the Original Source of the meme!

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 06 January 2012 04:20:29PM 0 points [-]

I'm now curious as to what the most ludicrous "we only use 10% of our X" snowclone would be.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 January 2012 05:02:32PM 3 points [-]

We only use 10% of our ability to generate entirely fictitious statistics?

Comment author: gwern 06 January 2012 11:35:08PM 2 points [-]

That should be easy to do. The truth is, we only use 10% of the volume our atoms take up.

Comment author: Prismattic 06 January 2012 11:31:09PM 0 points [-]

I'm fond of "87% of statistics are simply made up".

I have no idea whether it is ludicrous or not, or in which direction it errs.

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