I never could figure that out 'cause the liquid I measured from the pint
container leaked out of my peck basket faster than I could pour it in! It
wasn't until I moved to California (in 1959) that I heard a pound (weight)
abbreviated as Lb. I wanted to know what a "lub" was... give me a break, I
was only in first grade.
Gregg
PS And what was a PED XING?
From: Tom Trottier"
> We Canadians think Americans are so quaint, using English quantities
> so long abandoned by the rest of civilisation. Miles.... quarts...
> pints... (Of course, then I go to the grocery store, and everything
> is headlined in pounds and subtitled in kilos....) Quick, how many
> pints in a peck?
>
> Tom
>
> At 2000 June 14 - Wednesday 9:00, Timpe, Jim
> spoke about *RE: [OM] how's the weather??...* saying
>
> > That's right. Some of us still operate in the Kelvin system... ;^)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Garth Wood [mailto:garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> > At 07:44 PM 6/14/2000 +0800, Wayne Harridge (in response to a post by
Andy
> > Beals) wrote:
> >
> > >> It is farking hot in Silicon Valley. Here it is, 2230 and 80
> > >> degrees outside!
> > >
> > >That's hot, it rarely gets higher than 40 C here in the middle of
summer.
> >
> > Easy there, Wayne. Not everyone on the planet's switched to the Celsius
> > system yet. ;-)
> >
> > Garth
>
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