by toejam » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:07 pm
AZJames wrote:iamlucky13 wrote:
one mile -- 1.6 km -- 4.94 Eiffel Towers
570 feet -- 175 m -- 190 shoelaces
300,000 ton -- 272 million kg -- 359,000 Volkswagon Beetles
130 feet -- 40 m -- 130 breadboxes
26,000 miles per hour -- 41,839 km/h -- 19.3 times the Concorde
9 miles across -- 14 km -- 3431 Volkswagon Beetles
Laughed so hard I about fell out of my chair!
As you might surmise from my moniker, my location is the USA, state of Arizona, but I claim Scottish as part of my ancestry. Therefore, I'm thinking that weights in 'Stones' ought to be included in parentheses! 8)
My point is that any number of exotic systems of weights & measures may be included under the category "Other", and those users may be justified in asking for equal time (as it were) once the door is opened to include
anything in parentheses.
btw, my vote was for "Imperial", whatever that is!
IMPERIAL because invented by the Brits to use in their Empire.
Face it.
It's the USA's last link with real culture & civilisation.
Why else would you hang on so to a complicated system like that?
Personally I still talk about pounds, shillings & pence, (& florins ie two-bob pieces, half-crowns ie "two-and-a-kick", & Aberdeen half-croons ie the old octagonal 3d pieces).
[quote="AZJames"][quote="iamlucky13"]
one mile -- 1.6 km -- [b]4.94 Eiffel Towers[/b]
570 feet -- 175 m -- [b]190 shoelaces[/b]
300,000 ton -- 272 million kg -- [b]359,000 Volkswagon Beetles[/b]
130 feet -- 40 m -- [b]130 breadboxes[/b]
26,000 miles per hour -- 41,839 km/h -- [b]19.3 times the Concorde[/b]
9 miles across -- 14 km -- [b]3431 Volkswagon Beetles[/b][/quote]
Laughed so hard I about fell out of my chair!
As you might surmise from my moniker, my location is the USA, state of Arizona, but I claim Scottish as part of my ancestry. Therefore, I'm thinking that weights in 'Stones' ought to be included in parentheses! 8)
My point is that any number of exotic systems of weights & measures may be included under the category "Other", and those users may be justified in asking for equal time (as it were) once the door is opened to include [b]anything[/b] in parentheses.
btw, my vote was for "Imperial", whatever that is! :lol:[/quote]
IMPERIAL because invented by the Brits to use in their Empire.
Face it.
It's the USA's last link with real culture & civilisation. :D :shock: Why else would you hang on so to a complicated system like that?
Personally I still talk about pounds, shillings & pence, (& florins ie two-bob pieces, half-crowns ie "two-and-a-kick", & Aberdeen half-croons ie the old octagonal 3d pieces).