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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: On buying eggs #38155 09/09/2001 1:45 PM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean In Mexico, eggs are sold by the kilo, even when purchased in a flat of 2 1/2 dozen. If you bought them on a farm, it would be so many centavos/pesos(depending on the state of the peso) per egg, but still based on the kilo amount. Most farms I visited didn't have a scale to weigh them. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: search for the REAL Harry Potter #38156 09/09/2001 10:14 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Huh? Who does use stone as a measure of 20? Never heard of using stones for twenty. Of all the gall! I still think of my weight in stones, 14 to the pound Funny. In my part of Zild, we always had 14 pounds to the stone, but then who am I to argue? the last legacy of my being part of NZ's transitional generation, like maverick, straddling the change from imperial to metric. Does straddling the change hurt? I've heard it's murder on the haemorrhoids ... I have never heard of stone being used to mean twenty before. But, then, you repeat yourself. So do I. Frequently. Me too. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter #38157 09/10/2001 12:01 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Egg Numbers #38158 09/10/2001 11:50 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom rodward addict rodward addict Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 609 Portsmouth, United Kingdom In UK eggs are still sold in 6s and 12s. In Switzerland in 6s and 10s. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: on stoning the score (& changing the straddle) #38159 09/10/2001 1:12 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Imperial and Metric, and the perils of confusing the two… it can cause more than irritating pileups, CK! Canada had another famous "dead stick" landing, in 1983, when an Air Canada plane ran out of fuel because refuelers had confused metric and imperial measures when loading the plane. The pilot, who had extensive glider experience, landed the Boeing 767 on a disused airfield used for auto racing and go-kart derbies in Gimli, Manitoba. That plane has become known as the Gimli Glider. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/10/international/americas/10PLAN.html?todaysheadlines Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Eggs sold by the _____ #38160 09/10/2001 5:34 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon Fiberbabe old hand Fiberbabe old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 771 Portland, Oregon So if you don't buy eggs by the dozen, Bingley, you must go to the store for a half-score of eggs? While we're on the topic of eggs, what really bothered me when I went to Korea (where they're sold by the dozen, BTW) was that they weren't refrigerated. Ew. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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