On 20/03/2019 09:04, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:21:19 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Wednesday, 20 March 2019 08:05:40 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:

I remember once when I was young we had a cat who seemed to always lay down
the same way, I measured it and suggested we used it as a unit of measure,
called the pussy, so the garden was 135 pussys long etc.

I'm sure I read once of a retired patent specialist who registered a whole
system of measurement based on the "Ginger" which was his cat's name - a
Ginger in length was the length of the cat from nose to tail tip, in weight
was the weight of the cat at a specific time on a specific day etc...

I'm frustrated now that I can't find it on a search engine.


There's a whole world of unofficial units.
http://wiki.c2.com/?WhimsicalUnitsOfMeasurement No ginger pussies,
although the RCH is there under unit of distance, which must be
related (the smallest measurement known to man. The width of one "red
c*nt hair"), and the Smoot is there. A friend at uni used to talk of
walking speed as picoparsecs per hour (although actual walking speeds
are about 0.2pps/h, or 4mph)


where I trust "h" is a sidereal hour

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