Re: Measurement units (was: Re: [GZG] [FT] Cancon 2006 RandomObservations)

Adrian wrote:
> 
> >- we still use miles for road distances, but metric for all shop
weights
> >and measures - except for milk and beer, which still comes in pints
(like
> >elephants). Go figure. ;-)
> 
> You measure elephants using pints?
> 
> Measuring a large animal by (liquid) volume and not weight
suggests....
> well, I'm not sure what it suggests, but that's odd.

Some wordplay may be better left unexplained, but it isn't the
exactly the elephant itself being measured in liquid volume above.

-- 
David Brewer

"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific 
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of 
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)
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