geek test

Charlie Bell charlie at culturelist.org
Tue May 27 07:31:45 PDT 2008


On 28/05/2008, at 12:13 AM, David Hobby wrote:

> ...
>>> Tablespoons would have been totally ridiculous.
>>
>> Furlongs per fortnight and so on.
>>
>> Charlie.
>
> Charlie--
>
> Hi.  I thought I had invented "furlongs per fortnight".
> I guess it's natural enough; they're silly units and it
> alliterates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_System

Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight...

Oh how Alberto's head will explode.

Charlie.
One Centimetre Per Minute Maru


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