@MrTerry The entire SNL cast is expected to write. Part of the hiring process is showing up with your own material. They have additional writers as not everyone one can come up with a winning idea every week, but think historically some of the best SNL bits were written by the cast. Wanye's world == Mike Meyers Church Lady == Dana Carvey Now, they do less characters but rather single skits (age of the viral video)... Chloe does a lot of impressions and the writing for those.
Mikey Day (guy to Nate's left) and Streeter Siedel wrote this sketch. it was terrible at the table read and got pushed to the last sketch of the show. then they did dress rehearsal and it killed and got pushed up to the third sketch of the night.
For those who really want to know, a quick and dirty conversion of pounds to kilogram: First divide by 2. Then subtract 10% of what's left. Example: 180 pounds: Half is 90. Less a tenth is 81 kg. Close enough to the actual 81.63kg for government work.
In Britain, there was association football and Rugby football at the same time. American football is more closely related to rugby, so we kept the football part of that, while keeping the association part of the other.
7:20 From what I heard, the 'u' was dropped from most words due to printing (especially newspapers). Every letter typed costs money, so dropping a letter from a bunch of words (which would be used many times and reprinted many more times for each copy) would save a lot of money.
The metric vs. customary unit argument comes down to whether you want your measurement system based on water (1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 gram) or alcohol (100cu.ft. of shipboard cargo volume taken up by a barrel/"tun" of wine = 1 long ton =2240lb.) By the way, 1lb = 7000 grains of barley. Which is commonly used to make what? That's right...beer. 🙂 Customary units have a lot of benefits, like being divisible by a variety of factors. Take time measurement for example. An hour is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. So are minutes. Angular measurements in degrees, minutes, and seconds have the same advantage compared to measuring in radians. Gallon, half-gallon, quart, pint, cup, fluid ounces are all related by a factors of 2. It's pretty easy for people to divide by two, either mathematically, or physically. That can be carried down to the tablespoon (16 to the cup). People are pretty good at halving or doubling quantities, which is why many customary systems are fractional. Money used to be this way, too. Pieces of eight. Two bits = 1 quarter dollar. The old pound-shilling-pence system was the same way (1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pennies). Measurement of fractions of an inch is a base-2 system, but can also be done in thousandths for precision work. The foot, yard, fathom and fractions thereof are also easily utilized when precision measurement tools are not readily available. Incidentally, the marine business still uses shots of chain (90' or 15 fathoms) for anchor chain length measurement. The metric system suffers from excessive arbitrariness of the units. The meter is a little too long for convenient measurement, decimeters and centimeters too small. The stud spacing in the wall of your house is typically 24" on center, which nicely divides a 4' piece of drywall or plywood in half, but can also be done on 16" centers, making three bays per 4 feet. You could specify spacing to be 400mm or 600mm, so you could exchange your 1219mm x 2438mm (4'x8' or 48"x96") sheet, for 1.2m x 2.4m. So still working with multiples or fractions of twelve, just with an extra dot in there. 1 statute mile = 8 furlongs = 80 rods = 320 chains = 1760 yards = 5280ft. What convenient metric measurements fall between the kilometer and the meter? You know anyone using decameters? Quick, how far is 4 Hectometers?
FWIW, the US is a signer to the Convention of the Meter (Treaty of the Metre), and was from the beginning of the latter. Our customary units are defined in terms of the SI units.
"Football" is an old term that refers to any non-equestrian sport played with a ball on foot, which is how "Association Rules Football" can to be, to identify it from other games at the time also called "Football"
4:58 NFL, American Football, is a derivative of Rugby Football [RFU]. Originally a "try" in rugby scored no points, but gave the attacking team a "try at goal", which was a kick through the top posts. So points were only scored by kicking between the posts....hence "football". Rugby in the UK was for years an "amateur" only game, until the working men in the north of England broke from the Rugby Union and formed Rugby League, a professional game with a greater emphasis on territory capture rather than a running game, and far more like gridiron. Rugby League "RFL" is the elder brother of NFL. RFU on the other hand has family in Australian Rules Football AFL, and Gaelic Football which still uses a round ball instead of the torpedo ball. To this day, the AFL champions play the Gaelic League champions in the annual International Rules Exhibition Match where they alternate the ball shape and rules according to whether it is played in Australia or Ireland.
5:10 American football got its name because it was originally a off-growth of rugby football. So in England you had association football and rugby football, both of which evolved from a game that was basically bedlam. I can't remember the guy's name but the guy that basically created American football created the football down system to replace the scrum and the rest is history
American football, rugby, and (association) football all evolved from the same sport, which was simply named football iirc. The American variant was hence named "American football", the rugby variant was named "rugby (football)", and the association variant was named "association football" or "soccer". In the USA, American football was and is the primary version they play, so it's shortened to simply "football"; same goes in the rest of the world for "(association) football". "Rugby football" was shortened to "rugby", 'cause that's a unique enough name.
I am not 100% sure on this but my recollection is that they didn't necessarily descend from the same sport but that the term 'football' was just used to a variety of different games and sports before things started to get standardized and rulesets codified. May be wrong on that though.
Thanks to Lost in the Pond, I know all about football/soccer as well as why we have weird measurement. In summary, it's always the fault of the British. Rugby School, a private school in the British Empire, came up with a game where you carry the ball as well as use your feet, and it was Rugby School Football. and if you weren't allowed to use your hands it was Association Football, which the Brits attending Oxford shortened to "soccer." (They also changed the ten pound note to a "tenner" and in general like to add -er to the end of words.) Americans adopted both, but since we had no idea what Rugby School was, we called it simply football, and since it was Americans attending Oxford who saw the game there, we adopted the Oxford slang "soccer" for the other game. In the later 1800s, the Brits tried to standardize the dozens of different types of football and hundreds of varying rules, and they began to change the names. Americans "either didn't get memo or just didn't care" as Lawrence in Lost in the Pond likes to say. If you watch American football, Australian football, and Rugby football, they are very similar, except that over time Americans made it waaaaaay safer with more padding as we realize players were getting brain damage. Talking about Australia, it's not just the USA who calls it soccer. Most of the colonies that broke away early on do: Canada, Australia, South Africa, and in Ireland and New Zealand they the name for both games, all defending on which one is more popular in a given area.
Most of our measurements already existed and came from the United Kingdom. But we didn't think about these and one of the powers of Congress is to set customary weights and measures, which they have done. The metric system came after the American revolution. In fact we might have adopted the metric system but for our quasi war with France and the United Kingdom intercepting a French ship traveling to the United States with a set of weights and measures for the metric system. I would note that The United Kingdom and many of its former colonies still use British imperial measures in an informal basis and often for things like and alcohol. The Founding Father certainly thought about slavery and equality. Many like Washington hopes that slavery would end as it was becoming less popular. And Washington freed a number of his slaves in his will. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it was a step towards the right direction.
Early on a drop kick pass was done in football instead of the hand pass. Also the shape of the ball changed with that move as well with the older balls being more round.
12 inches to a foot 3 feet to a yard 1760 yards (5280 feet) to a mile 12 inches to a foot? Sure, 12 is a holy number. 3 feet to a yard? Inconsistent, but ok, another holy number. 1760 yards to a mile? WHY?!
@ronmaximilian6953 , so then... miles were originally a unit of area? Or is it like: "A perfectly square acre is X by X yards and a mile is Y × X yards = 1760 yards"?
I actually like Fahrenheit. I think it's a lot easier to interpret - 0 is COLD, 50 is in the middle, 60 -80 is ok and everything else is too damn hot. The scale makes sense, whereas Celsius...not so much.
Yeah if you are doing any kind of mathematical / scientific stuff... Celius is great... but just knowing what it feels like outside Fahrenheit is much better
Plus it's more granular. In celcius, there are just 100 numbers between freezing and boiling, whereas fahrenheit has 180, meaning we can be more precise without decimals.
Check out my reaction to Shane Gillis's bit on George Washington: ua-cam.com/video/g0fJUaRDx7g/v-deo.html
@MrTerry
The entire SNL cast is expected to write. Part of the hiring process is showing up with your own material. They have additional writers as not everyone one can come up with a winning idea every week, but think historically some of the best SNL bits were written by the cast.
Wanye's world == Mike Meyers
Church Lady == Dana Carvey
Now, they do less characters but rather single skits (age of the viral video)... Chloe does a lot of impressions and the writing for those.
There a part 2. A different Washington sketch Nate did when he hosted again.
Just in case you're curious: 1 Liter is 0.26 Gallons while 1 Gallon is 3.79 Liters. Also, 1 Kilometer is 0.62 Miles while 1 Mile is 1.61 Kilometers.
I prefer Knots and Nautical Miles
@@RedBeardTheFirst and i use gon instead of degrees in circles.
Also, US is officially a metric country. All imperial measurements are defined through their metric primary counterparts. Scientists use metric.
You shut up
Is it not 1.75 liters to a gallon? Pretty sure that's what it says on a gallon of alcohol.
Nate Bargatze came back on SNL and did a Washington's dream part two .. maybe you wanna heck that out, too
Mikey Day (guy to Nate's left) and Streeter Siedel wrote this sketch. it was terrible at the table read and got pushed to the last sketch of the show. then they did dress rehearsal and it killed and got pushed up to the third sketch of the night.
For those who really want to know, a quick and dirty conversion of pounds to kilogram:
First divide by 2. Then subtract 10% of what's left.
Example: 180 pounds: Half is 90. Less a tenth is 81 kg.
Close enough to the actual 81.63kg for government work.
Can't wait for part 2. Nate is so good with his deliveries.
You should check out the other SNL bit with Nate about Washington
In Britain, there was association football and Rugby football at the same time. American football is more closely related to rugby, so we kept the football part of that, while keeping the association part of the other.
7:20 From what I heard, the 'u' was dropped from most words due to printing (especially newspapers). Every letter typed costs money, so dropping a letter from a bunch of words (which would be used many times and reprinted many more times for each copy) would save a lot of money.
Interesting
I think I heard that this sketch had been written for months, but the writers were waiting for the right host to play George Washington.
The metric vs. customary unit argument comes down to whether you want your measurement system based on water (1 cubic centimeter of water = 1 gram) or alcohol (100cu.ft. of shipboard cargo volume taken up by a barrel/"tun" of wine = 1 long ton =2240lb.) By the way, 1lb = 7000 grains of barley. Which is commonly used to make what? That's right...beer. 🙂
Customary units have a lot of benefits, like being divisible by a variety of factors. Take time measurement for example. An hour is evenly divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. So are minutes. Angular measurements in degrees, minutes, and seconds have the same advantage compared to measuring in radians.
Gallon, half-gallon, quart, pint, cup, fluid ounces are all related by a factors of 2. It's pretty easy for people to divide by two, either mathematically, or physically. That can be carried down to the tablespoon (16 to the cup). People are pretty good at halving or doubling quantities, which is why many customary systems are fractional. Money used to be this way, too. Pieces of eight. Two bits = 1 quarter dollar. The old pound-shilling-pence system was the same way (1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pennies).
Measurement of fractions of an inch is a base-2 system, but can also be done in thousandths for precision work. The foot, yard, fathom and fractions thereof are also easily utilized when precision measurement tools are not readily available. Incidentally, the marine business still uses shots of chain (90' or 15 fathoms) for anchor chain length measurement.
The metric system suffers from excessive arbitrariness of the units. The meter is a little too long for convenient measurement, decimeters and centimeters too small. The stud spacing in the wall of your house is typically 24" on center, which nicely divides a 4' piece of drywall or plywood in half, but can also be done on 16" centers, making three bays per 4 feet. You could specify spacing to be 400mm or 600mm, so you could exchange your 1219mm x 2438mm (4'x8' or 48"x96") sheet, for 1.2m x 2.4m. So still working with multiples or fractions of twelve, just with an extra dot in there.
1 statute mile = 8 furlongs = 80 rods = 320 chains = 1760 yards = 5280ft. What convenient metric measurements fall between the kilometer and the meter? You know anyone using decameters? Quick, how far is 4 Hectometers?
FWIW, the US is a signer to the Convention of the Meter (Treaty of the Metre), and was from the beginning of the latter. Our customary units are defined in terms of the SI units.
Then the boat with the standards was taken by pirates.
@@Kliphie actually it's worse... It was the British.
"Football" is an old term that refers to any non-equestrian sport played with a ball on foot, which is how "Association Rules Football" can to be, to identify it from other games at the time also called "Football"
4:58 NFL, American Football, is a derivative of Rugby Football [RFU].
Originally a "try" in rugby scored no points, but gave the attacking team a "try at goal", which was a kick through the top posts. So points were only scored by kicking between the posts....hence "football".
Rugby in the UK was for years an "amateur" only game, until the working men in the north of England broke from the Rugby Union and formed Rugby League, a professional game with a greater emphasis on territory capture rather than a running game, and far more like gridiron. Rugby League "RFL" is the elder brother of NFL.
RFU on the other hand has family in Australian Rules Football AFL, and Gaelic Football which still uses a round ball instead of the torpedo ball.
To this day, the AFL champions play the Gaelic League champions in the annual International Rules Exhibition Match where they alternate the ball shape and rules according to whether it is played in Australia or Ireland.
Now you gotta watch SNL Washington's Dream part 2 with Nate Bargazte again!
5:10 American football got its name because it was originally a off-growth of rugby football. So in England you had association football and rugby football, both of which evolved from a game that was basically bedlam. I can't remember the guy's name but the guy that basically created American football created the football down system to replace the scrum and the rest is history
Walter Camp - he changed the Scrummage (Scrum) to Scrimmage
I love Nate lmao his bit on the snake bite in South America is hilarious
American football, rugby, and (association) football all evolved from the same sport, which was simply named football iirc. The American variant was hence named "American football", the rugby variant was named "rugby (football)", and the association variant was named "association football" or "soccer". In the USA, American football was and is the primary version they play, so it's shortened to simply "football"; same goes in the rest of the world for "(association) football". "Rugby football" was shortened to "rugby", 'cause that's a unique enough name.
I am not 100% sure on this but my recollection is that they didn't necessarily descend from the same sport but that the term 'football' was just used to a variety of different games and sports before things started to get standardized and rulesets codified. May be wrong on that though.
Thanks to Lost in the Pond, I know all about football/soccer as well as why we have weird measurement. In summary, it's always the fault of the British. Rugby School, a private school in the British Empire, came up with a game where you carry the ball as well as use your feet, and it was Rugby School Football. and if you weren't allowed to use your hands it was Association Football, which the Brits attending Oxford shortened to "soccer." (They also changed the ten pound note to a "tenner" and in general like to add -er to the end of words.) Americans adopted both, but since we had no idea what Rugby School was, we called it simply football, and since it was Americans attending Oxford who saw the game there, we adopted the Oxford slang "soccer" for the other game.
In the later 1800s, the Brits tried to standardize the dozens of different types of football and hundreds of varying rules, and they began to change the names. Americans "either didn't get memo or just didn't care" as Lawrence in Lost in the Pond likes to say. If you watch American football, Australian football, and Rugby football, they are very similar, except that over time Americans made it waaaaaay safer with more padding as we realize players were getting brain damage.
Talking about Australia, it's not just the USA who calls it soccer. Most of the colonies that broke away early on do: Canada, Australia, South Africa, and in Ireland and New Zealand they the name for both games, all defending on which one is more popular in a given area.
Even with the padding, American football is more dangerous.
I wonder if James is supposed to be James Monroe since he served under Washington?
You need to react to "part 2" as well. There is a second sketch as hilarious as this one!
Terry is the CEO of history.
@MrTerry football is called football because it originated/spun off from rugby football and was later shortened to just football.
Rugby football... aka ruggers.
Now you need to watch the new one!
They are all called football, soccer is the real name given to the other football. Rugby is also a type of football.
Most of our measurements already existed and came from the United Kingdom. But we didn't think about these and one of the powers of Congress is to set customary weights and measures, which they have done. The metric system came after the American revolution. In fact we might have adopted the metric system but for our quasi war with France and the United Kingdom intercepting a French ship traveling to the United States with a set of weights and measures for the metric system.
I would note that The United Kingdom and many of its former colonies still use British imperial measures in an informal basis and often for things like and alcohol.
The Founding Father certainly thought about slavery and equality. Many like Washington hopes that slavery would end as it was becoming less popular. And Washington freed a number of his slaves in his will. It certainly wasn't perfect, but it was a step towards the right direction.
This speech would have been before metric existed
Early on a drop kick pass was done in football instead of the hand pass. Also the shape of the ball changed with that move as well with the older balls being more round.
do the second one !
American Football got called Football because it wasn't played on horseback.
3:42 We do how many yards are in a mile (1,760), it's just that not many people care to do the math.
ya thats the joke
My 5th grade teacher always said when we turn 17 we can drive 60 and it made so little sense that I have never forgotten.
12 inches to a foot
3 feet to a yard
1760 yards (5280 feet) to a mile
12 inches to a foot? Sure, 12 is a holy number. 3 feet to a yard? Inconsistent, but ok, another holy number. 1760 yards to a mile? WHY?!
Because a mile is 640 acres. And an acre is roughly the area that a person could plow in a day.
@ronmaximilian6953 , so then... miles were originally a unit of area? Or is it like: "A perfectly square acre is X by X yards and a mile is Y × X yards = 1760 yards"?
I love this sketch
There is a part 2
Also Justin Timberlake's Great-Great-Grandfather sketch if you want celebrity specific.
Nate is great!
Football is a foot long so 5280 footballs in a mile
Probably not the first to comment this.
There is a Part 2 of this skit. When Nate hosted a 2nd time he did another one of these skits.
I think Football is called Football because the ball is supposed to be about a foot long or something?
You should react to Hamilton
We so smart
Thanks, hilarious sketch. Probably only the Key and Peele sketch on if teachers were treated like sports stars sketch is as funny😮!!! See Suggestions!
I actually like Fahrenheit. I think it's a lot easier to interpret - 0 is COLD, 50 is in the middle, 60 -80 is ok and everything else is too damn hot. The scale makes sense, whereas Celsius...not so much.
Yeah if you are doing any kind of mathematical / scientific stuff... Celius is great... but just knowing what it feels like outside Fahrenheit is much better
Plus it's more granular. In celcius, there are just 100 numbers between freezing and boiling, whereas fahrenheit has 180, meaning we can be more precise without decimals.
nick bargatze... 🤦3:21
i love nate bargatze he's the best
You should talk over it a bit more...