[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] OT: CA: It's Our Turn
    User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak 
    geeks at sunhelp.org
       
    Tue Apr  3 18:04:04 CDT 2001
    
    
  
> I do tend to use metric for measurements of the very large and the very
> small, because that tends to be the realm of science.
I have had to use metric for 30 odd years, in the sciences.  It is more
in what I think of anymore than inches, feet, pounds.
.....
> A tun is a unit of liquid (usually beer) capacity, 210 gallons.  That's
> .uk gallons, not .us gallons :-)
Dang!  Ye be makin' me timbers a'right thirsty there matey....
A tun o' grog... yum.... and a long recovery time, these days......(:+{{...
Mead might be more fun, mebbie.....
Bob
    
    
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