2002-12-01 My thoughts exactly as I was reading the article. Joe Six-pack does not know that FFU is tied to the metric units. I doubt Joe Six-pack knows or cares how his units are defined as long as he can ask for a 12 oz bottle or can of beer and get it and it gives him a good buzz. Nothing more matters to him.
BTW, what was the definition of a pound before it was defined relative to the kilogram. Didn't they at one time grab 12 men coming out of a bar on a Saturday night and make them cup their hands and fill them with barley corns until they started to fall to the ground, weigh each guys holdings, take an average and that was the pound for the week? The pint was defined similar. 12 guys at random upon leaving said bar to visit the outhouse, were told to pee in a container, the volume of the pee was measured and divided by 12, the resultant being a pint. Talk about holding your liquor. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-12-01 18:08 Subject: [USMA:23700] Re: Dallasnews - kilogram > Nice article, Nat! A lot of this has been said before but it was worth > updating. The Dallas Morning News seems particularly adept at keeping up with > science and technology. > > I wonder how many of the Dallas readers realized that "our beloved pound" > (actually, both the troy pound and the pound avoirdupois) has been based on > this kilogram for 109 years now and that this affects the size of the pound > as well. Betcha many of those readers figured it was a problem with the > metric system alone and thus felt better about "not being on the metric > system". > > Jim
