How many Gives to the Monkeys?

And if you really want to go down this road, if friction causes heat, how many fucks does it take to boil a kettle?

Most interestingly, after being pivotally involved with creating the non-standard smoot,

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot)

Oliver Smoot later became Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)[3] and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [4]

A beautifully poetic circle, IMHO

I could argue that some of these units are obsolete, but that would seem to be a Smoot point.

That would require extensive research in to the amount of heat energy released by a fuck, which would be extremely tedious if not rather fun.

I noticed that the list has "mile" as a measurement. But which mile? There are dozens of different miles around, so if they make so much effort defining half a dozen different cubits, why only one mile?

Fantastic, you couldn't make it up.

...furlongs per fortnight.

Best unit ever.

Can convert speeds into Furlongs per fortnight.

Just type:

speed of light in furlongs per fortnight

into Google and hit Search.

It does less useful conversions like meters into feet and lbs to kgs too. Although I don't think it can cope with standard grapefruit and linguine yet.

The word is pronounced as "chun" as in Wing Chun kungfu. In Chinese phonetics (HanYu Pinyin), "c" has the properties of "ch" as in "chair".

Admittedly, I couldn't help sniggering at the word either.

so a James over an Isaac over a Heinrich is only .587 Olivers??

Jeeze he was tall... or they were very short...

(Google: 1 Watt / 1 Newtons / 1 Hertz in Smoots )

I just keep adding a T on the end.

One of the VAX/VMS system parameters was officially listed as having units of "microFortnights", which according to the online help were approximated to as seconds (it's within 20%)

Hellenistic military historians everywhere are swooning in rapture at finally getting someone else to work out distances in cubits. How long before we get it in proper stades as well? (Though when you think about it, the length in football pitches should do it. Stade=stadium geddit?)

Dunno about the friction but the calories burned by the participants are reckoned to be 200 dietary calories or 200,000 calories for half an hour which is almost enough for the standard kettle how many fucks that gets you is highly variable.

... so you lot better start, think of it as practice for when the Olympics comes to town, they reckon we'll have a power shortage.

Extreme geekdom does not use furlongs per fortnight as unit of speed. Real geek would use hertz per diopter or Hz/dpt. You know you are troughbred geek if you:

a) know why and b) find it funny.