On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:51:31 +0000, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Lets be precise about this:

1 mo = 2 ticks
1 while = 1000 ticks
1 yonk = 1000 whiles

Urgh, that's way too metricified

I suspect you could also express time using the whistling noise a builder
makes when looking at a job and sucking air between their teeth, but I'm
not quite sure how you'd write that one down...