Jerry Seinfeld is absolutely right to mock our continued use of "horsepower" to measure modern machines. We should at least switch to elephants or something. Or politicians. They're pretty powerful if you think about it. The amount of power it takes to build one dam could be measured in congressmen. Who wouldn't want to drive a 220 senator-powered motorcycle?
The fractional use of horsepower is also ridiculous. Half a horsepower is, properly speaking, half a horse's power, which is zero. A horse torso moves no carts. In cases such as these we should use mice or ferrets or something.
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