LymeswoldSnork
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Quickly, back to measurements:
Some time ago I encountered the phrase "to knock nine bells out of", and realised that the bell must have been devalued and is now worth only seven-ninths of a shade of shit.
Why has no aficionado of Wales, double-decker buses and Olympic-sized swimming pools yet posted links to Wikipedia's lists of unusual or humorous units of measurement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
And fans of the Twitter account of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life will understand why their social distancing signs are currently asking visitors to keep one absolute unit apart:
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2018/04/history-behind-absolute-unit/
Some time ago I encountered the phrase "to knock nine bells out of", and realised that the bell must have been devalued and is now worth only seven-ninths of a shade of shit.
Why has no aficionado of Wales, double-decker buses and Olympic-sized swimming pools yet posted links to Wikipedia's lists of unusual or humorous units of measurement?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
And fans of the Twitter account of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life will understand why their social distancing signs are currently asking visitors to keep one absolute unit apart:
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2018/04/history-behind-absolute-unit/
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