On Thursday, February 6, 2014 3:19:39 PM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> S Viemeister > wrote:
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> >On 2/6/2014 3:32 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> >> The reviewer doesn't know the difference between U.S. and Imperial.
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> >> A lot of people don't. All I can remember is that an Imperial pint
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> >> is 20 ounces.
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> >Just to confuse things:
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> >an Imperial pint=20 Imperial ounces=19.2152 US ounces
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> Thanks. The difference between a US ounce and an Imperial
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> ounce is one of the many things I can't remember.
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> I recall a bit in... 1984? Brave New World? where some old
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> gaffer is complaining about the recently adopted metric system.
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> Half a liter of beer isn't enough; a whole liter is too much.
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> It didn't make much sense to me at first: half a liter is
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> very, very close to a U.S. pint.
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As far as beer goes, a half liter isn't nearly enough, and a liter, well,
that's still not enough.
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> Cindy Hamilton

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