Re: Quizz Answers ... NO LBC

["John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>]

Phil Ethier wrote:
> Do you folks in the UK use the Pound Sterling symbol for
> weight when you are not talking metric?

No, but its all getting a bit complicated now. You can buy a pint of beer - 
but not a pint of paint because its illegal to sell paint in the old 
imperial measure That said, its also illegal to sell beer in litres or half 
litres but that's the way our fuel is sold. Its the usual half-baked British 
idea of *compromise*

Jonmac


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