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Not "Leftenant Gov'nah"? I have to admit that being something I never understood. Here in the US, "Lieutenant" is always "lou". I'm pretty sure in Oz military circles it is "lef" - but don't know. I'm sure @monkeysarefun will know. In the "British Isles" (my attempt at IOM inclusivity) is there a rule for "lef" versus "lou"?

Nor do they include the ultimate American sandwich for children, the PB&J (or for little Ozzie nippers, fairy bread). I think the list is intended for adults. 😉 There are a lot of sandwiches that are really good - Bánh mì, Cubano, Reuben, Muffuletta, Po' Boy, Lobster Roll, etc.

In the US there was usually a separate room curtained off from the rest of the shop. (I can say I never partook - too embarrassed probably.)

Why is the cucumber sandwich on this list? Who eats those things? Disgusting. (I'm not sure my Lab would eat them! Just kidding, of course it would, but ...) CNN: 24 of the world’s best sandwiches You'll be happy to know the chip butty makes the list. No hot dogs or burgers on the list. And yes, they are sandwiches.

You might want to store it on something like a wooden "tee". (A post with a cross member - approximating shoulders.) This should keep it from getting tangled, with air circulating. It will be too heavy for the average closet/wardrobe rod and coat hanger. If you leave it folded in a box it will rust for sure with any humidity present.

The US issued fractional currency banknotes during the Civil War. Due to their short lifespan and ephemeral nature as paper, they are highly collectible. The three cent banknote is quite an oddity. They included things not usually done - like the engraved likenesses of living people - including the then Treasurer of the US.

I never owned an HP calculator, but did program in FORTH. I'm pretty sure that in FORTH it would be: Go FORTH * which would respond with [product of Go x FORTH] ok

I got the "rod" in there. 😉 I always understood the perch as a 'square rod' - though I sometime see the rod used as a measurement of area. When I was young, land was offered in perches. It switched to hectares in 1974. In the US it varies, sometimes it is fractional acres, sometimes if small in square feet. Interiors are measured in square feet. I've never seen rods, poles or perches used contemporaneously in the US. I imagine surveyors need to know what they are. They certainly would have been used in colonial times. The "quarter acre" (40 perches) was a desirable (and large) suburban lot - quite unusual now. I remember suburban lots where I grew up being in the thirty-something perches range.

My use of Florins and Guineas was facetious, as I hope you recognize. But I very much enjoyed your assessment of all the nuance and complexity. It is precisely the point I was making.

Yes - slavery was still legal in Delaware as well. No it isn't. It is south of the Mason-Dixon Line* - as is Delaware. The Census Bureau counts them as "Southern" but they really identify as part of the "Mid-Atlantic" today. * A surveying exercise to delineate colonial boundaries before the revolutionary war (of American Independence). Agreed. It was not part of the rebellion, and people don't associate them with "The South".

Very like a Western "futon". Thank you for the clarification. That helps. I had a western futon that folded into a 'sofa' for day use. The frame was much worn by my youngest who was a big lad, but it persists. I did replace the mattress.

Did you get the real deal steel? Sounds like you might have. Or the cheaper, lightweight aluminium? Hope you have a place to change into it close to the venue. It will be strenuous enough wearing that at the event. Travelling to and fro in it will be an endurance test.

Hope you have all the prerequisite undergarments - particularly the arming cap. Don't want any chafing.

I don't follow. Did you want a tatami floor with Shikibuton, or something more western? Do Ryokan offer something else?

You had a half-dozen eggs and a half-dozen sausages? Hardly a modest repast. I would have thought you would be warning us about cholesterol were any of us to consume a half-dozen eggs in one sitting.

Hard to imagine a circumstance where that is likely. Even in a hypothetical nuclear/zombie apocalypse a slide rule is probably the last thing you would need. I could have included printed logarithmic and trigonometrical tables - but I don't know how many people would recognize them. Never used a slide rule but did use log and trig tables at school.

Perfectly normal for me. Can you change the zoom on your browser? Chrome has "zoom" under the three vertical dots in the top right.

The most bonkers linear unit might be the cable. Nominally 100 fathoms - ish. The Admiralty defined it as 1' of latitude (a tenth of a sea mile) - which of course varies, with latitude - and being on the surface of the earth, isn't (mathematically) even linear, or at least straight. The USN makes it 120 fathoms.

Mark I'm likely a little younger than you. Australia went metric in 1974 - but I learned the basics of both in school. My technical university education (early 1980s) was 100% SI Units. Working in the US was retrograde - plenty of Imperial units persisted (and still do).

Rather than arcane computing (at one point I possessed a paper tape correction tool and die set) more representative questions could include: 21. Subscribed to a daily newspaper 22. Used a fountain pen 23. Posted a Christmas card 24. Posted a hand-written letter 25. Used "airmail" paper 26. Used a slide rule 27. Used a handheld calculator (not a Smart 'phone app) 28, Learned cursive (running) writing 29. Travelled by inter-city train (not commuter rail) 30. Travelled by inter-city bus (not a suburban bus) I would actually score three points on the "never" scale on those (slide rule and inter-city train/bus). It is no longer possible to subscribe to a local daily newspaper here. EDIT: I should add: 31. Sent or received a telegram 32. Used a payphone / public telephone 33. Made or received a "collect" / "reversed charge" telephone call 34. Made or received an operator connected telephone call

Four for me - on a regular basis. Zero per the "never" - I've done all 20. Perhaps those of you who baulk at "Blockbuster" can substitute "corner video rental". I still have a Blockbuster card somewhere. There is still a Blockbuster Video extant. It is here in Oregon but about three hours drive from here.

In what universe is a "hundredweight", logically 112 pounds? It is so, but not logically. Eight stone? Even a gross is a dozen dozen - 144 - which would make sense to Babylonians who liked base 12. Multiples in Imperial (a subset): 3 - feet to the yard 4 - quarts to the gallon 6 - feet to the fathom 8 - stone to the cwt / pints to the gallon / furlongs per mile 10 - chains per furlong 12 - inches to the foot 14 - pounds to the stone 16 - ounces to the pint 20 - cwt to the ton 22 - yards to the chain This is of course an incomplete list. It's bedlam. It's as crazy as florins to the guinea (ten and a half florins - more properly ten florins and one shilling - 1/1/- if you are playing along).

The argument that you can use it as a productivity tool - to accelerate to a 75% solution followed by human proof-reading and editing is persuasive. I saw what it did to transcript of a very 'unstructured' Microsoft Teams call with lots of opinions being 'voiced'. It produced a plausible summary in a couple of minutes. It wasn't perfect and had a couple of things quite 'wrong' but compared to a human recomposing manual notes into a coherent meeting summary the overall productivity is vastly better.

Worse than that Phil is that manufacturing dimensions of circuit boards still use thousandths* of an inch while semiconductors are metric. Packaging for semiconductors is changing to metric, gradually. Even more absurd is that the "thou" is the same dimension as the "mil". Both of them are 1/1000 of an inch. 1,000 in Latin is mille. Mil should not be confused with millimetre (39.3701 mil).

There are 16 Imperial fluid ounces in the Imperial pint. It is 20 US fl oz to the Imperial pint. Once upon a time there was a wine gallon (Queen Anne's Gallon) and an ale gallon in the Imperial system. The US standardized on the wine gallon. The UK standardized on the ale gallon. Very close to. It's 1.016 mm.