[tips] RE: Why our students seem so dense

[Christopher D. Green]

Marc Carter wrote:   The other day in a blog I frequent, we had a discussion about the relative magnitudes of a**loads, buttloads, and sh*tloads, and then someone raised the spectre of the metric buttload. The buttload is, of course, one of those quaint Anglo-Saxon measurements (like hogsheads, drams, rods, and leagues). The buttload has no exact equivalent unit in metric (although the "buttometer" was briefly considered but reject primarily for aesthetic reasons). The Imperial Buttload is equivalent to 37.283 liters. Of course, the Americans had to have their own buttload, which, unlike the US gallon, is actually LARGER than its Imperial counterpart (US buttload=48.618 liters -- about 13 US gallons).   PS  I find myself doing anything to avoid work.  My apologies. Indeed. :-) -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ============================= --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english