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Default When a gallon is not a gallon

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
Utter nonsense. A pound is sixteen ounces. Five pounds is five pounds,
not
four. If you buy a bag of sugar that is _plainly_marked_ "4 pounds"
thinking
it is five, you need to be looking in the mirror for the source of that
problem.



True, but it happens more often that you'd think. As a whole, consumers
are not very bright. Marketing people are winning.



One of your last three sentences doesn't belong with the other two.