Re: What is happening with metrication?


"Pete Keillor" <keillorp135@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:43:49 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
> <tom(nospam)@ohiobrush.com> wrote:
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>>> The obvious question would be why? Why would anybody want to shift into
>>> a
>>> metric time warp?
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>>Have I ever been serious? I measure my fuel economy in furlongs per
>>hogshead...sound great!
>>
> How many hogsheads are there in a ***, and how many firkins in a
> hogshead? Fun stuff you can look up in a CRC.
>
> Pete Keillor

One hogshead is two buts.
A hogshead is 1-1/3 firkin

Just how many is: "A shitload" (answer: more than 21)


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