On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:37, Andrew Beattie wrote: > > Elaine just used the term 'quid' a few emails ago, and now Jonathan. > > Could someone please explain what is a 'quid'? > > My contributions to this thread: > > A quid is to pound as a buck is to dollar. > > An ounce of feathers is heavier than an ounce of gold.
Really? What context of 'ounce' are we using here? > > My favorite measurement for windspeed is attoparsecs per microfortnight. This sounds like a rip-off of the Galdor "grain, pole, fortnight" system. Although (in mitigation) I see that you haven't invoked the use of the "universal constant" (a very useful concept which allows all those nasty physical constants to equal the value '1'). > Which weighs more, an ounce of lead or a fluid ounce of mercury? Mercury (at a guess), it is anyway (now) certainly more valuable. One of the things that has always intrigued me (in these litigious and nanny state times) is: what happened to all the mercury that I and my buddies in Slough Grammar spilled on the nice suspended wooden floor of the physics and chemistry labs circa 1965-1972? (Not to mention in the cracks of all the benches). Dirk -- Please Note: Some Quantum Physics Theories Suggest That When the Consumer Is Not Directly Observing This Product, It May Cease to Exist or Will Exist Only in a Vague and Undetermined State.
