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

[Thorny]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:06:40 +0100, Melanie wrote:

> 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"?

I don't know but I imagine so, wasn't that size supposed to 1/5 of a US
gallon? Are there any drinkers in the US reading this who can
confirm this?

But, mm is a unit of distance, don't you mean cc?