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New Units of Measurement! Get yer... - Bob Schroeck - 08-24-2007
...new units of measurement here!
(Courtesy of The Register, as always.)
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Re: New Units of Measurement! Get yer... - Ebony - 08-24-2007
Very nice. Someone should use those in Fenspace. Perhaps the Professor measures everything in millilinguines?Ebony the Black Dragon
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Re: New Units of Measurement! Get yer... - robkelk - 08-25-2007
But they completely forgot to define the "swallow" (European or African) and the "coconut"...
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Re: New Units of Measurement! Get yer... - Bob Schroeck - 08-26-2007
I think they were probably trying to avoid any confusion over whether a swallow was a unit of force or of volume...
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