Alphabetical Memes

Think about it: f-o-r-t-y. The letters are indeed in alphabetical order. Meanwhile, the guy's brain just imploded from this utterly pointless linguistic trivia. This is exactly what happens when you're on your third consecutive all-nighter before finals and your brain starts serving up these "profound" realizations instead of actual useful knowledge. The kind of fact that will occupy valuable neural real estate forever, while you still can't remember the Krebs cycle for your biochem exam tomorrow.

The exact moment a mathematician discovers that alphabetical sorting of numbers puts "eight" before "eighty," "forty" before "four," and "one" at position 51. This is the mathematical equivalent of finding out your entire research paper used the wrong font size. The water-to-face coping mechanism is standard procedure after discovering such lexicographical treachery.