Fire hydrants

Kelle asked:

Dear Tanner,
Why are fire hydrants different colors? In our town I have seen red, yellow, and green ones. What is the difference? {I feel somewhat cheated because you scammed Adam into telling you my question. :P }
Also,
Why do people favor number 2 pencils over number 1 or number 3.
Why do batteries skip from A to C?
Why do we call them Grandfather clocks?
Why does Hawaii have Interstate highways?
and
How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?


Kelle ;)

I hate to brake it to you Adam, but Court was right.
Fire hydrants are different colors so the firemen know what the water pressure is.

BLUE 1500 GPM or more Very good flows
GREEN 1000-1499 GPM Good for residential areas
ORANGE 500-999 GPM Marginally adequate
RED Below 500 GPM Inadequate

Question for you Kelle, do you favor number 2 pencils over 1 or 3?
The numbers on the pencils is the hardness of the graphite, so a number 1 is the softest therefore lt leaves the darkest and needs to be sharpened more often. And number 3 pencils have harder graphite and leave lighter marks, so number 2 pencils are in between and perfect.
So that is why people favor number 2 over 1 and 3.

Batteries do not skip from A to C, you just never hear about or see B batteries because they are not as common, however you can find B batteries from across the pond.

William Clement gave them the name long-case clocks, Henry Work wrote the song “My Grandfather’s Clock” and the name stuck.

Any highway built under the auspices of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 and funded by the federal governent is called an interstate highway, even if it doesn't cross state lines. As a matter of fact, there are many local routes that lie entirely within a single state funded by the Act.

It takes 2611 licks to get to the stick of a tootsie pop.

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And not Landon