[TheForge] A little metrology humor - YAK

[Dave Brown]

At 15:51 02/01/04, you wrote:
>IN THE BEGINNING was created the Imperial Ton = 2240 pounds (lbs.) = 20
>Hundredweight (cwt) i.e. 1 cwt = 112 lbs.
>
>AND YEA,

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>THE EEC DID COMMAND that tablets of stone be carved, on which was writ:
>1 IMPERIAL TON = 2240 lbs.
>1 SHORT TON=1 US TON = 2000 lbs.
>1 TONNE = 1000 kg = 2205 lbs.
>
>THUS WAS THE CONFUSION CREATED.

Yea, verily and forsooth.

Thou sayeth the truth.

Dave Brown
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI