Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote: >> Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a >> liter of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, >> that's just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the >> Flintstone one is only .47 liters. > > A half-litre can of Guinness fits perfectly into the standard Irish > pint glass. I mean perfectly. I just poured one. :-)
Shouldn't a "pint" of beer be administratively fixed at 500 mL, just as a "fifth" of liquor in America is now officially 750 mL? Seems like a good task for an ISO working group. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
