At 02:21 PM 5/26/2010, Fred Cisin wrote:
But, find each other and have a pint. Because I'm
not going to be there,
I am not offering to buy. (Prices have probably gone up since the days of
"A pint's a pound, the world around")
Wikipedia says "The saying "a pint's a pound the world around" refers
to
16 US fluid ounces of water weighing approximately one pound avoirdupois
in the United States... In the rest of the English-speaking world, an
Imperial pint?being 20 Imperial ounces of water?will weigh one and a
quarter pounds."
You think it has to do with price?
And am I the only one who notices that Tony's typos increase in
his evening? :-)
- John