Tuesday, December 4, 2007

What I learned today: Fun and learning with the U.S. Census and meat by-products!

Today I learned that there is a Census category for manufacturers of "meat processed from carcasses." This industry includes about 1000 companies and 100000 employees. I discovered this while I was looking for the slightly less interesting industrial equipment manufacturing sector. Runner up for weirdness is probably the "rendering and meat byproduct processing" sector. Makes me feel much less weird about describing my job as a data monkey. "What do you do for a living?" "I'm just your friendly neighborhood meat from carcass processor."
Here's the full list of industries for your bored / morbid exploration. I think we should have a "toilet preparation manufacturing" appreciation day. I mean, really, otherwise we'd have to shit in the cup, and we all know how it turns out from there.

3 comments:

Black Crow said...

I agree one hundred percent. first of all I like that you compare yourself to a meat processor. secondly the image is perfect. thirdly what day is the toilet paper manufacturing day going to be? I recommend February when all the other shit holidays are. but Im open to suggestion.

Cyrusse said...

how about February 15?
"Happy Valentines Day!"
the next day...
"Happy We Get to Shit in a Toilet Day!"

Black Crow said...

haha, sounds good to me. I think I value the 15th more. haha.