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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:50:09 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Useful Metric Conversions
Message-ID:  <20000316215009.B10813@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn1ny4tv3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20000315214713.H244@parish> <38D042B3.8B07AA4C@originative.co.uk> <20000316182207.C235@parish> <xzpn1ny4tv3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:10:59AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
>>> Mark Ovens wrote:
>>>>   453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
>>> I'm not getting that one at all?
>> Neither do I. I didn't dream them up, I just posted them.
> 
> 453.6 g (gram) = 1 lb (pound)
> 
> Geez, isn't it scary when furriners who've spent a grand total of one
> week in an English-speaking country in their entire lives get jokes
> the natives don't?

Nah, it just means we're used to a higher standard of jokes. :-)

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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