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October 26, 2005

The Dimwit Zone - CNN Seeks Conversion to Octal

by Ferdinand T Cat

CNN News Director Kim Bondy today announced a new initiative by CNN and several other mainstream news organizations to convert the number system from decimal to octal.

"Today most information is stored digitally, and octal is much more useful in that environment," Bondy said when discussing the initiative at a meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus. She was joined by NBC reporter Katie Couric, who explained that there was a more important reason. "In an octal numbering system, 1000 is equivalent to the decimal 512. This means we can almost double the number of Iraq war death milestones in a 12-month period."

Using the new octal numbering system, the next death milestone-- 4000 in octal-- would require only 48 more deaths, meaning that it would almost certainly occur during the November ratings sweeps. "We see a death milestone in November as a very big win for all of the 24-hour news channels," Bondy added.

At this time, is it not clear how the new numbering system would affect peace activist Cindy Sheehan's planned protest in front of the White House; however, we suspect that Sheehan will favor waiting for the death total to hit octal 4000, because it begins with the digit 4, and 4 has very important mystical qualities.

At least, that's what we heard from a very reliable source.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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