A unit of measurement is constant. An inch is always an inch - it does not matter whether it is measured in 1/8ths, 1/16ths, or by the width of elastic bands...an inch is always an inch. (although measurements by men may vary...:tongue2:) This is also true in the measurement of weight.

What does this have to do with anything? If I read one more time that a pound of fat weighs less than a pound of muscle, I think my eyes will start to bleed, and steam pour out of my ears!!! A pound = a pound. The space they occupy will be different (for example, your waist may be smaller but your total weight the same), but the weight will be constant.

A ton of feathers is the same weight as a ton of gold coins...but the amount of space required to achieve that weight will be significantly different.

OK. Class dismissed.

Would that be a pound of wood or a pound of gold?

:biggrin:

Nah...just a teaspoonful.

A teaspoon of gold and a pound of feathers?

Yep! Did you know they weigh the same?

Thanks a lot, Plain! (please read with sufficient sarcasm) You take us down this path, diverting the attention from the real issue - precious metals aside - a pound is a pound!!! Now stop it! Don't make me come down there!!!

You are all nuts, you know that? Perhaps that's why I love you so!!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...

Question - how did the peppers get pickled before they were picked?

Question - how did the peppers get pickled before they were picked?

Answer: Shoot the hostage!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...

Question - how did the peppers get pickled before they were picked?

That is simple....28

answer: Shoot the hostage!

what do you do?!? what do you do?!?

I wonder how much his gold watch weighed?

I wonder how much his gold watch weighed?

6 teaspoons of fat

Tap, what's the metric conversion for that??

Tap, what's the metric conversion for that??

There is such as thing as a metric teaspoon, therefore no conversion is necessary. If however we are discussing a non-metric teaspoon into grams, then I need to know what teaspoon....a US or UK? And of course we all know we shouldn't be converting teaspoons (volume) to grams (weight)....

I personally use Grandma's wooden spoon - it absorbs the fat. How does that count???

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spelling - again.

I personally use Grandma's wooden spoon - it absorbs the fat. How does that count???

But is it holding food with muscle in it? If so, it weighs twice as much.

Darnit! (such a refined southern word - LOL)...but Gold - maybe it'll soak it in and weigh 3x as much....I'll take a golden spoon...hey platinum would be even better! Granma used it to swat me with hers - maybe I'll take that back...then again could intimidate the hell out of my kids...I'm rambling now, sorry.