Re: Imperial Measures
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:17:18 -0800
Subject: Re: Imperial Measures
It either dates you or makes you a closet American....
Brian
"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is
of no use."
- S. Freud
>From: aebrain@austarmetro.com.au
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: Imperial Measures
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:21:12 +1100
>
>
> > Only the second one escaped me, must be a colloquial thing.
>
>I forget how many gills there are to a pint. 14? Thankfully we went
metric
>many years ago. One of the things that dates me is that I remember
pounds,
>miles, acres, etc.
>
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