On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:36:21 -0400 Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote: > (Obviously it worked in that direction, not the other way, since > the old saying exists: "A pint's a pound the world around." And > now it ain't!) This was because we found our anglo-saxons friends a tiny bit embarrassed by such things, that we invented the metric system *<;-) (You don't have any idea about the number of different measures, often wearing the same name but largely unequal, that was in this time in france). -- <Akee'Dodo> I live in magnificent world of plenty <Akee'Dodo> my mom is pushing my friends and me to drink <Akee'Dodo> (so my father won't finish the beers)
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