Hi Gregg,
At 2000 June 16 - Friday 17:53, Gregg
spoke about *Re: [OM] how's the weather??...* saying
> 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!
Hey, we use uranium ore to measure pints & pecks up here. Stays in
the basket, glows in the dark...
> 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.
Yeah, lb is short for "livre", french for book & pound! That really
makes sense...
>
> Gregg
>
> PS And what was a PED XING?
Short for something. Pederast Christing?
>
>
> 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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