Can we kill this thread PLEASE!!!???
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Aka "lots of elbow room".
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> Alaska equals two times the size of Tex
Size can sometimes be problematric in Texas,
Una volta, with apologies to the shade of Jonathan Swift, there was a
Braniff flight from Dallas to Chicago. Arriving at the gate, it began
disgorging passengers, some of whom, who were no more than 7 inches,
17.78 cm, high, had great difficulty negot
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> Alaska equals two times the size of Texas plus one Wyoming.
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> Bill Fairchild
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I think Big D is going to whack us with a 2x4 pretty soon ;-)
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But mostly empty!
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Alaska equals two times the si
Alaska equals two times the size of Texas plus one Wyoming.
Bill Fairchild
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*EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas!
>> ... Two by four construction lumber is still the same
>> dimensions (more like 1.6in by 3.2in).
>>
> And in the UK, they still call it four-by-two (otherwise
> Cockney rhyming slang wouldn't make sense) and it is a lot
> closer to its nominal dimensions.
If I
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On 11/8/2011 8:29 AM, J R wrote:
>> ... Two by four construction lumber is still the same
>> dimensions (more like 1.6in by 3.2in).
>>
> And in the UK, they still call it four-by-two (otherwise
> Cockney rhyming sl
On 11/8/2011 8:29 AM, J R wrote:
... Two by four construction lumber is still the same
dimensions (more like 1.6in by 3.2in).
And in the UK, they still call it four-by-two (otherwise
Cockney rhyming slang wouldn't make sense) and it is a lot
closer to its nominal dimensions.
If I had to gues
> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:41:55 -0500
> From: jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us
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> ... Two by four construction lumber is still the same dimensions (more like
> 1.6in by 3.2in).
>
And in th
>I think in this case the term state is not wholly inappropriate:
>state (n):
8.the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.
>Respectfully submitted by a former resident (and still citizen) of said
>province.
Possibly, but when I worked for said province, we never used state-owned
, November 07, 2011 09:43
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I think in this case the term state is not wholly inappropriate:
state (n):
8.the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.
Respectfully submitted by a former resident (and
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Still province not state
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My apologies... I meant Province... not State...
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Still province not state
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Still province not state
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The 'O' in LCBO stands for 'Ontario'. It thus seemed likely that the
LCBO was a creature of the Province of Ontario even before this was
confirmed for us so definitively.
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>State owned LCBO
Province owned
And, don't get me wrong.
We don't like it, either
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, Nov 4, 2011 4:47 pm
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On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia,
Canada.
>Canada is all screwed
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On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
> Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
> for meat at $4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpgKo4AKb0
Every Measurement You Make.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
> On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
>>
>> Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
>> for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocer
On 4 November 2011 16:41, Roberts, John J wrote:
> Canada was further along the metric road at one point. Then the government
> changed
> and they (Brian Mulroney's Conservatives) backpedalled on a few things.
> Mostly it was weights and measures in the supermarket, just so grandma
> wouldn'
454g has to be by law
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From: Linda Mooney
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On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
> Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
> for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia,
> Canada.
>Canada is all screwed up We bought jewelry, chocolates, and
>a book at a Halifax mall, and each recei
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On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
> Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
> for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia,
> Canada.
Canad
On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement
for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia,
Canada.
Canada is all screwed up We bought jewelry, chocolates, and
a book at a Halifax mall, and each receipt ha
Hi Clark,
And what size pound it that? The "half kilo" 500 grams or the 450ish
gram American pound?
:-D
Linda
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On 3 Nov 2011 20:16:18 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ted MacNEIL
wrote:
>US: 2 cups - 8 by 2 = 16 oz
>IMPERIAL: 2.5 cups = 20 oz
>
>1 IMP gallon = 10 lb (water)
>1 US gallon = 8 lb
>
>1 IMP gallon = 160 oz
>1 US = 128 oz
>
>In both systems: 1 oz weighs 1 oz (water)
>
>1 millilitres of water = 1
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