On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Peter Edwards
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hi Dennis
>
>
>  One pint of water is equal to 1 pound of water ("a pint a pound the world
>> around")>
>>
>
> Might be where you are, but not here (UK) and certainly not 'the world
> around'.
>
> Referring to Imperial pints and pounds:
>
> A pint of clear water weighs a pound and a quarter.
>
> I guessed I missed that you were not referencing the US pint.  A US pint of
water weighs 1.04 US pounds.  Certainly keeping US pounds and pints and kilo
and liters separate makes the rations easy.

I think that the pint a pound..." saying is an old (US) farmer saying from
days past .  Milk here was sold (is sold) from the farm by the hundred
weight (short not long )(100 pounds in  US pounds).

I think that I would prefer your pint of ale over my pint....

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