Timeline for Two and a half kids
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| Jul 10, 2019 at 4:54 | answer | added | TheTrueGamer66 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 19, 2017 at 11:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/843424118678700033 | ||
| Mar 14, 2017 at 21:05 | comment | added | zwol | A similar joke appears in The Phantom Tollbooth; the protagonist meets .58 of a child, who explains that he is part of the "average family", which has exactly 2.58 children. He is very insistent that he is a little more than half a child. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 16:15 | answer | added | user210771 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 13:05 | comment | added | Oosaka | Found a reference to the Far Side cartoon, it is from "The Far Side Gallery 3": books.google.fr/…". It actually involves 1.5 children, which sounds more like an "actual average" where 2.5 seems to be referenced more as an ideal for what the average should be. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | Oosaka | I originally had a comment here about an explanation for this in "The Prehistory of the Far Side" but then I found it wasn't in that book. I would be very interested in knowing the history of the joke/expression though; presumably it originates in someone at some point making a joke referring to a specific census or survey or a number that was in the air, and the idea taking off, but I'd like to know what the earliest instances of the joke are and what census they refer to (if that can be found). I don't know if it is appropriate to start a new question or edit this one or what? | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | AakashM | qv British TV show 2point4 Children | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 7:29 | comment | added | MaxW | My p-Chem professor used 2.5 children as an example about something. "After all the average family has 2.5 children. Can anyone image a family with 2.5 children?" I quickly quipped "Yea, My sister is OK, but I don't think my brother's all here..." Even the prof laughed. | |
| S Mar 13, 2017 at 23:03 | history | suggested | Shokhet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2017 at 20:45 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | It's surreally referencing the average 2.5 children in the average family in the specified population, treating it whimsically as if every family had exactly the mean number of children. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 20:42 | answer | added | Canis Lupus | timeline score: 33 | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 19:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 13, 2017 at 18:54 | history | edited | Dhryfen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2017 at 18:47 | answer | added | J Preisser | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 18:47 | comment | added | TrevorD | 1. Please provide a link to the source of the quotation. 2. Voting to close as any answers to this Q. are likely to be mere opinions: there is no definative answer. 3. "2½ kids" is sometimes used as a reference to an 'average' family size. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 18:41 | history | asked | Dhryfen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |