[OT - Crescent Wrench] - Re: 8.10b - first impression and questions

[Melanie]

On Saturday 11 October 2008 16:37:39 Thorny wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:36:34 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Friday 10 October 2008 1:38:00 pm Derek Broughton wrote:


> metric size. I didn't check to see if it was really 2.5 inches long or if
> it was 6.35 cm. ;-)

It amuses me that Knorr (a Swiss company by birth?) solemnly advise me to add 
675mm of water in making up their packet soup when they really mean one pint 
(Imperial, not US).

Do Americans still buy their liquor in "fifths"?