Ursa_Eagle

now that I think about it, "for all intents and purposes" does make more sense....

I have no idea. Hasn't it been obvious that I'm a numbers guy and not a words guy?

3... always 3

I hope the ugly things are the orange curtains and not women!

which kind? English (1.5 ft), Roman (1.4566929 ft), Egyptian (1.476378 ft), or Royal Egyptian (1.7175197 ft)? (all aforementioned feet are the International/US standard feet)

It's the principle. MA would be selling out in every aspect of the term. More advertising makes it all the more difficult to ignore. As if pop-up ads on the internet we're bad enough...

taken from http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm one US Hogshead = 62.999999 US Gallons. For all intensive purposes, 1 hogshead = 63 gallons. taken from http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_all.htm one rod = 16.5 US/International feet. therefore: 40 (rod/Hogshead) * (16.5 ft/rod) * (1 mile/5280 ft) * (1 Hogshead/63 Gallons) = .00198 miles/gallon Any questions?

I knew there was a reason I left MA...

Damn them for realizing that shrub is an idiot!

"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" -Grandpa Simpson (his car only gets .002 miles/gallon)

I thought that's what most (if not all) art was about? Sex, or some derivative thereof...

I think that we're in a race with most other countries to see who can screw up the planet the fastest.

The two things that piss me off most about work is they expect me to actually come in every weekday, and they expect me to actually do work sometimes! The bastards!

I have no idea what happened on Leuthold. I was just doin' the south side (again... I was up there way too many times last week). Conditions on the south side weren't bad at all. Hell, we even got a nice "cool breeze" the whole way up! I saw you at the top of palmer, but by the time I got over toward you, you had started moving, and I figured that you wouldn't want to stop again. I just dragged a sled up Tam MacArthur Rim a few weeks ago as part of a expedition training class, so I understand completely about how much fun they are. Turns out the "sled-tree well" attraction is one of the strongest forces known to man. Too bad you didn't ride it down, that would have been entertaining (both to participate in and watch!)

I thought we had to take the phrase with "God" out of the pledge of allegience, but it's OK for the president to say "God bless our troops"...

I'm with Iain, the english system blows goats of the dead variety. We wouldn't have to worry about any of this if we were on the metric system like the rest of the world.

I think you can only have two decimal places there, buddy. How many significant figures do you have in your least accurate number? 2.54 is exact. You can drag out the decimal places as much as you want with these conversions. However, don't forget that any measurement you take (or any other human has taken) won't be exact, so that must be taken into consideration.

and don't forget how much of the world's energy the US consumes... (I don't remember the numbers, but it's outrageous.) I'm sure that putting out a few fires will more than make up for the amount of pollutants that the SUK's in America produce.

my pots bigger than your pot

Ivan, was that you heading up with a sled on Saturday early afternoon?

changing curtains for bigfoot

Nice job guys!

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale... it's a barleywine. 9.6% That's another good beer.

http://www.stonebrew.com/tasting/special/STOUT2002/index.html