A whole lot of whiskey for sale..... 48 cents a quart

[sarettah]

Cheap Whiskey

1,050 tons

Price $497,000 USD

Thats $473 a ton which is .24 cents a pound and a pint=a pound the world around (as I learned in 8th grade science) so thats about .48 cents for a quart......

Good deal for someone.......

[DrGuile]

Im saving up for a nuclear one...

[Robin]

Originally Posted by sarettah

a pint=a pound the world around

I think that might more accurately be...

a pint=a pound in the USA

Everywhere else I believe there are 20 fluid ounces in a pint (The true imperial value : )

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Robin

I think that might more accurately be...

a pint=a pound in the USA

Everywhere else I believe there are 20 fluid ounces in a pint (The true imperial value : )

Hi, Robin!

20 fluid ounces in a pint?


sarettah...thank you very much for the memory flash.
I learned that one from my Mom and I can still picture her saying it.

[Robin]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

20 fluid ounces in a pint?

Hi Morgan!

http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/volume.htm

"'fl.oz' is the abbreviation for "fluid ounce". A fluid ounce of water weighs
one ounce in Imperial measurents although the American fluid ounce is
slightly different."

As I was tought at school, the Americans decided that it was too complicated having 20oz in a pint because everything else was in 16s - so they simply changed it (personally I think it was so stores could sell less stuff at the same price . But that change stopped the US from using true 'Imperial' or 'British' measurements (even though they think they do : ) because everything from the pint upwards in liquid form only applies to the US - not the rest of the world!

[Red]

Originally Posted by Robin

Hi Morgan!

http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/volume.htm

"'fl.oz' is the abbreviation for "fluid ounce". A fluid ounce of water weighs
one ounce in Imperial measurents although the American fluid ounce is
slightly different."

As I was tought at school, the Americans decided that it was too complicated having 20oz in a pint because everything else was in 16s - so they simply changed it (personally I think it was so stores could sell less stuff at the same price . But that change stopped the US from using true 'Imperial' or 'British' measurements (even though they think they do : ) because everything from the pint upwards in liquid form only applies to the US - not the rest of the world!

Thank you for educating me on that Robin. You've got points.
That totally surprised me. I taught dosages and calculations and I was not aware of it. There was nothing in the textbooks I taught or learned from.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Robin

a pint=a pound in the USA

The USA, the World..... same difference

[Robin]

Originally Posted by sarettah

The USA, the World..... same difference

We had an old lady come in our restaurant last week. She must have been at least 80. She asked one of our waiters if Germany was in England! Now there's a woman who lived through the 2nd world war and still has no idea about major countries outside the US.

The other one we get is "I have a friend who lives in England, his name is ****, do you know him?" - as if England is like a little village somewhere...

[PornoDoggy]

Hey, that may be mine!

I helped catch a couple of those gawddamned things back in the 70s.

[Newton]

Robin where is your restaurant located chap?

[Dravyk]

At least we drive on the correct side of the road!!

[Newton]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

At least we drive on the correct side of the road!!

Don't start Cracka

[Robin]

Originally Posted by Newton

Robin where is your restaurant located chap?

South Texas

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

Hey, that may be mine!

I helped catch a couple of those gawddamned things back in the 70s.

Me too........

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Robin

We had an old lady come in our restaurant last week. She must have been at least 80. She asked one of our waiters if Germany was in England! Now there's a woman who lived through the 2nd world war and still has no idea about major countries outside the US.

The other one we get is "I have a friend who lives in England, his name is ****, do you know him?" - as if England is like a little village somewhere...

A long time ago, when my father was station at Ft. Bragg, some woman commented on my mother's "accent" and asked where she was from. Well, Mom was born in Massachusets, then spent most of her adult life in Connecticut, so she just said "New England." The woman said "oh, really? Where is that?" My mother stared at her for a second, then dryly remarked "it's across from France." Which it is, give or take the entire Atlantic Ocean....

Now, I can see not being able to remember exactly which country is next to Lithuania or something...but I can't figure out how people manage to get out of elementary school without being to at least narrow it down to a continent...if not narrow it down even more. Of all the subjects that stump people, Geography seems to be the one that all the idiots out there flunked.

[Robin]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

At least we drive on the correct side of the road!!

Well, the English drive on the left because in the days of chivalry, when strangers passed each other on horseback they would shake or salute with their right hands - their spear-carrying hand - if they had been on the right-hand side then they would have shaken left hands but might have lunged a spear with their right hands. So it was much safer and politer.

Now... I'm not saying Americans aren't chivalrous...

[Dravyk]

In other words, Robin, a South-paw knight had the advantage!

[awf]

sounds good too me