A Call For Humor!

[ta240]

 

[Ageve]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Multicore]

I'm not too fussy about units, although Fahrenheits are silly and Pascals are too small, but I draw the line at CGS. CGS can f right off.

 

[sergeauckland]

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I don't get those either, or BTUs or furlongs, or roods, poles and perches...

And as to why fluid ounces are different to dry weight ounces, or troy weights...

S.

 

[Timcognito]

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I don't get those either, or BTUs or furlongs, or roods, poles and perches...

And as to why fluid ounces are different to dry weight ounces, or troy weights...

S.

Blame the Romans, it wasn't built in a day, as they say.

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[Timcognito]

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Wait a minute.

 

[snakedctr]

 

[snakedctr]

Wait a minute.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

 

[Multicore]

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I don't get those either, or BTUs or furlongs, or roods, poles and perches...

And as to why fluid ounces are different to dry weight ounces, or troy weights...

S.

Fathoms are quite nice. I used to like using fathoms.

Knots are a schmerz in the derriere.

But the Brits and their stones. Hahahahahahahahahaaaaa. What's a stone? It's seventeen and three quarter pounds.

 

[Member 90125]

 

[Multicore]

Bushels sound great, although I don't know what they are. Volume? Weight? Big or small?

I'd love to be able to go to the feed shop and ask for a bushel of rabbit food, please.

 

[Count Arthur]

In 60s Britain, Lsd was the abbreviation for pounds, shillings and pence.

It was actually from the Latin, librae, solidi and denarii and under this system, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound.

Thankfully the UK went decimal when I was very young, but you'd still occasionally see things with the price written as Lsd.

 

[Ken1951]

Bushels sound great, although I don't know what they are. Volume? Weight? Big or small?

I'd love to be able to go to the feed shop and ask for a bushel of rabbit food, please.

Unless you have a whole lot of rabbits you're better off with a peck!

 

[snakedctr]

Bushels sound great, although I don't know what they are. Volume? Weight? Big or small?

I'd love to be able to go to the feed shop and ask for a bushel of rabbit food, please.

Plural form of bushel

noun​

1. A dry measure, containing 8 gallons or 4 pecks.
2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel.
3. An indefinitely large quantity. [Colloq.]

 

[RayDunzl]

What's a stone? It's seventeen and three quarter pounds.

That's $22.91