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#144020 06/16/05 03:36 PM
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is that a 5th of scotch? or Kentucky bourbon? or what?

(do they still sell whiskey in bottles that hold 1/5th of a gallon? is it sold in metric quanities now?)


#144021 06/16/05 03:59 PM
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How do you pronounce that, Bel?


#144022 06/16/05 05:21 PM
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scotch ... bourbon Ptoo!
Gimme a fifth of cinnamon schnapps, please.

Sparteye, I've heard belMarduk speak; she pronounces that "that".


#144023 06/16/05 09:58 PM
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>>>Sparteye, I've heard belMarduk speak; she pronounces that "that". HA!!


But essentially, Jackie's right, we pronounce bang exactly like in English.


#144024 06/17/05 02:24 AM
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Helen, I had to go check our vast (ha) stock re: your question. We have a bottle of Irish whiskey (alas, not Bushmill's, sorry) and a bottle of bourbon; both are in 750 ml bottles.


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and 5 times 750 is 3750ml, which is equal to .99 gallons.. so the answer is (thanks to Jackie) Yes.

(i am by no means a teatotaler, but i make a habit not to drink alone, so i rarely have hard liquor in the house--when i am having a party, i tend to by the 2 liter (apx 1/2 gallon!) bottles.. so its feast or famine!)


#144026 06/17/05 10:29 AM
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3750ml, which is equal to .99 gallons.

Not here it isn't.

In NZ, 1 gallon is very nearly 4.5 litres, not 3.8


#144027 06/17/05 12:02 PM
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Is that an imperial gallon?


#144028 06/17/05 12:49 PM
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This is why it is so difficult to compare gasoline prices in the United States with gasoline prices in other parts of the Commonwealth.



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"other parts"??!!


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