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You ever notice how people who have cats sometimes say "purrfect"? I have. I'm thinking they think it's cute or clever or genius or something. Which I'm not exactly sure it is, but whatever. Or maybe they just do it to upset dog people? Because dog people don't have "rufferiffic" or "barktastic" or something cool like that, in which case maybe purrfect it is a little cute and clever and genius.

But I'll fess up, I used purrfect today - in an ironic "don't really like cats" kind of way, but still. And when I did it struck me that I wasn't sure if it was 2 r's or 3. Or maybe it was 4? More? I bet these cat freaks really run with it when they get the chance.

Wanna bet how many r's you have to include in your purrfect before Google reports fewer than 100 hits? Here we go:

1. purfect - 73,000
2. purrfect - 638,000
3. purrrfect - 760,000
4. purrrrfect - 46,000
5. purrrrrrfect - 19,000
6. purrrrrrrfect - 1,000
7. purrrrrrrrfect - 5,500
8. purrrrrrrrrfect - 12,000
9. purrrrrrrrrrfect - 800
10. purrrrrrrrrrrfect - 1,500
11. purrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 800
12. purrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 600
13. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 500
14. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 300
15. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 200
16. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 45
17. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 200
18. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 100
19. purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect - 60

Here's a visual of from 9 on:

So yeah, you gotta go out 16 r's before it really gets freakishly rare. Seems fair. I mean at 10 doesn't really make the point, right? And once you've gone 13, you may as well take it to 15.

For the record, I lost $2 on the r-count over/under. I took under 7. Huge mistake. Won't happen again.