a C Eb and a G walk into a bar

[Bloomfield]

But stay the hell out of my kitchen.

Fair enough. Although I'd love to publish a metric Joy of Cooking...

I never really worried about the size of my thon until I started putting on weight. Now "Gee" is the last thing on my mind ...

Groan... that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it.

[DIAGONALINE]

you will have to accept the change to metric eventually so you may as well start now

Then you will be better prepared for the new metric 10 note scale.

Metric pipes
who will be the first on your block

[Flyingcursor]

The last remnant of Splendid Isolation has got to be the pride US Americans take in their backward parochialism.

Yammer yammer.

Here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies in metric:

0.53232353325 liters all-purpose flour
4.92892161 ml baking soda
4.92892161 ml salt
0.236588237 liters butter, softened
(may use 236.588238 ml instead)
177.4411785 ml granulated [white] sugar
177.4411785 ml packed brown sugar
4.92892161 ml vanilla extract
2 eggs
0.473176421 liters NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
118.294119 ml chopped nuts

The little handles on the spoons would have to be huge fit all those numbers on them.

[missy]

significant figures, Flydood, significant figures.............

[Innocent Bystander]

Metric Pipes? No, but I already make metric whistles.
15mm and 21mm diameter.

[Bloomfield]

The last remnant of Splendid Isolation has got to be the pride US Americans take in their backward parochialism.

Yammer yammer.

Here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies in metric:

It's about time we did away with chocolate chip cookies, anyway. You can have these instead.

[Nanohedron]

Here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies in metric:

0.53232353325 liters all-purpose flour
4.92892161 ml baking soda
4.92892161 ml salt
0.236588237 liters butter, softened
(may use 236.588238 ml instead)
177.4411785 ml granulated [white] sugar
177.4411785 ml packed brown sugar
4.92892161 ml vanilla extract
2 eggs
0.473176421 liters NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
118.294119 ml chopped nuts

That's not a recipe. That's a replicable experiment.

[gonzo914]

The last remnant of Splendid Isolation has got to be the pride US Americans take in their backward parochialism.

Yammer yammer.

Here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies in metric:

0.53232353325 liters all-purpose flour
4.92892161 ml baking soda
4.92892161 ml salt
0.236588237 liters butter, softened
(may use 236.588238 ml instead)
177.4411785 ml granulated [white] sugar
177.4411785 ml packed brown sugar
4.92892161 ml vanilla extract
2 eggs
0.473176421 liters NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
118.294119 ml chopped nuts

The little handles on the spoons would have to be huge fit all those numbers on them.

I suppose you could round things off, but then you'd need 2.00215 eggs --

0.5 liters all-purpose flour
5 ml baking soda
5 ml salt
.25 liters butter, softened (may use 250 ml instead)
175ml granulated [white] sugar
175ml packed brown sugar
5 ml vanilla extract
2.00215 eggs
.5 liters NESTLE TOLL HOUSE Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
120 ml chopped nuts

So until they develop metric chickens to lay those metric eggs, I will keep my tbs and tsps and c.

[I.D.10-t]

By the way, that 750 ml bottle is short of a fifth by .00187 gallons, which means I'm getting screwed.

You getting screwed, gonzo? Right. And Brittney is getting her Ph.D.

I see you have been reading Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics too.

The last remnant of Splendid Isolation has got to be the pride US Americans take in their backward parochialism.

Down with the meter, we don't want no foreign rulers.

[Bloomfield]

Yup. Brittney's Guide is absolutely precious!

[jsluder]

It's about time we did away with chocolate chip cookies, anyway.

I do away with them all the time. Yum! You can always make more.

As for eliminating the possibility of making them... You'll need a mighty big army to pull that off. I ain't givin' up my homemade chocolate chip cookies without a fight.

You can have these instead.

Blech. No thanks.

[Joseph E. Smith]

you will have to accept the change to metric eventually so you may as well start now

Then you will be better prepared for the new metric 10 note scale.

Over my cold, dead and maggot mawled carcass bucko!!!

[djm]

Over my cold, dead and maggot mawled carcass bucko!!!

Yor fear meks yew steenk! Actually, I can proudly say that after more than thirty years of metrification I still have to change everything into imperial measures to understand their values, to appreciate their import.

djm