Damn it I was guessing OK - what the hell is a pound anywho - one
over four point two equals something or other. And nameless herbal
friends of mine claim that you can cut an easy twenty-five grams out
of an ounce.
Went and checked the pantry and while there are some 350's and 400's
there are also 415's, 420's 530's and other peculiar numbers. And ALL
timber lengths here are 1.8 (not 1803 OK), 2.1, 2.4 usw. Definitely
an imperial hangover.
AndrewF
(there goes another pet theory, victim of mathematical pedantry,
bugger it).
On 07/09/2005, at 6:37 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> 418g = 1 pound? Remind me not to buy anything from you by weight :-)
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Andrew Fildes
> Sent: 07 September 2005 09:24
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Some guys never learn
>
>
> That's amusing because, although we've been metric in Oz for many
> years, a
> lot of 'stuff'' is in measurements clearly converted. Thus, a lot of
> packaged foods seem to be something like 418g instead of 500g
> (obviously a
> pound)
>
> --snip
>
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