From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   > jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:   
   >> I did check that I have a cup of pecans.   
      
   > That's an oddity to UK cooks.  You rarely ever measure things in   
   > cups.  Liquid are measured by volume - usually millilitres - and dry   
   > goods are measured by weight - grams.   
      
   I'm American, but I prefer the UK system.  When I look up nutrition   
   information for broccoli, it gives me the information per cup.  I have   
   no idea what's meant by a cup of that fractal vegetable.  It can vary   
   by a factor of four or more depending on how chopped up it is, and on   
   how mashed in it is.   
      
   But then I also think the British long scale (billion = 10^12, etc.)   
   made more sense than the American short scale (billion = 10^9).  But   
   I understand that the British have since adopted the American system.   
      
   In related news, I recently won a bet that I could name all the   
   English/British monarchs of the past thousand years.  (It's easier   
   than it was at the turn of the century, since there were so many   
   between the year 1000 and 1024, whom I no longer need to remember.)   
      
   This July will be 1100 years since Athelstan's accession.  Whatever   
   happened to fandom's Athelstan, aka Ray Palmer (not the Shaver Mystery   
   Ray Palmer)?  I'd like to congratulate him on the anniversary.   
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