Marty

Nope.... I'm actually dreading the answer.

I'm heading out for an hour or so. Have to pick up a prescription and the nearest pharmacy is 20 miles away. But for your edification and general entertainment, I'll just drop this wee song here to keep you all occupied:

Well don't tell us before @Drew Espinosa has had his say....

So either your hubby was lying, or you are... Hmmmm........ *Marty dons his bulletproof vest and runs for cover*

It all depends on perspective. To an observer outside the car, the car and it's occupants are travelling at 55 mph. To an observer inside the car, the world outside the car is travelling at 55 mph (in the opposite direction). And, no, Sherye! The above was not intended as an answer to your original question.

Nah, ma Sherye.... Let the silliness continue.

I didn't actually provide an answer. So how can have given a wrong one?

If the fly was outside the car and wanted to keep up with it, then it would need to fly at 55 mph. Not even a dragonfly can fly that fast. The fastest flying insects are dragonflies, with a top speed of 56km/hr (35mph). Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/how-fast-can-a-housefly-fly/

Greetings, Gary!

Possibly... Although, it could maybe wait until after all this enforced social distancing ends.

BTW, the answer is:

I'm not sure I want to know who you might be thinking of buying that for.... But, just in case it's intended for your adopted brother, have you checked that they are actually available in Halfling size?

How fast relative to the inside of the car, or how fast relative to the outside of the car? And in either case I reckon we would need to know the length the fly travelled inside the car, and the time it took to travel that distance. (But maybe Drew will know some other way of reaching a solution that I'm not aware of...)

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Psssst! Ma Sherye:

Another interesting article on the history of margarine: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/25638/surprisingly-interesting-history-margarine 1) We can thank Napoleon III for it: If you enjoy margarine, tip your cap to Emperor Napoleon III. Napoleon III saw that both his poorer subjects and his navy would benefit from having easy access to a cheap butter substitute, so he offered a prize for anyone who could create an adequate replacement. Enter French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès. In 1869, Mège-Mouriès perfected and patented a process for churning beef tallow with milk to create an acceptable butter substitute, thereby winning the Emperor’s prize. 2) Canada actually banned it: If you think taxes and dyes are tough, then the Canadian government’s anti-margarine campaign seems downright draconian. From 1886 until 1948, Canadian law banned any and all margarine. The only exception to this rule came between 1917 and 1923, when World War I and its aftermath left butter in short supply and the government temporarily gave margarine the thumbs up. Margarine didn’t necessarily have an easier time after the ban was relaxed, either. Quebec’s strong dairy lobby ensured that rules against dyeing remained in place in the province until 2008.

Apparently coloured margarine was illegal in the US for a number of years... "While butter that cows produced had a slightly yellow color, margarine had a white color, making the margarine look more like lard, which many people found unappetizing. Around the late 1880s, manufacturers began coloring margarine yellow to improve sales." "Dairy firms, especially in Wisconsin, became alarmed at the potential threat to their business and by 1902, succeeded in getting legislation passed to prohibit the coloring of the stark white product. In response, the margarine companies distributed the margarine together with a packet of yellow food coloring. The product was placed in a bowl and the coloring mixed in manually. This took some time and effort, and it was not unusual for the final product to be served as a light and dark yellow, or even white, striped product. During World War II, there was a shortage of butter in the United States, and "oleomargarine" became popular. In 1951, the W.E. Dennison Company received U.S. Patent 2,553,513 for a method to place a capsule of yellow dye inside a plastic package of margarine. After purchase, the capsule was broken inside the package, and then the package was kneaded to distribute the dye. Around 1955, the artificial coloring laws were repealed, and margarine could once again be sold colored like butter." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine (And it almost broke my heart to have to leave all those misspellings of the words colour, coloured, and colouring in the text quoted above.)

Talking of cutting up pieces of paper, mam used buy several long rolls of different brightly coloured paper about two inches wide on the market, two or three weeks before Christmas. They had a sticky back that you had to lick (like old fashioned postage stamps) to make them stick. We would spend many a happy hour cutting them into six inch lengths and then threading them together to make the Christmas decorations to hang from the ceilings, or thread from picture rail to picture rail across the room.

I used to mix the little packet with the white margarine for my mom... I liked doing it. I honestly don't remember white margarine... Maybe any colour needed in the UK was added in the factories. What I do remember is the foul smell that used to emanate from the local margarine factory itself. It always smelt like something had died and been allowed to putrefy for several months.

Another two hour Zoom session starting in about 5 minutes time....... (If I survive....)

This one amused me as well, for some weird reason: https://satwcomic.com/ungodly-surprise