Frogleg > wrote:
>On Sat, 22 May 2004 21:39:09 +0000 (UTC), Tony Walton
> wrote:
>
>>Depends what sort of gallon. A US gallon is 3.785-ish litres, a UK
>>(Imperial) gallon is 4.546-ish litres.
>>
>>It comes from the differing pints. A US pint is 16 fluid ounces (so a
>>US pint of water weighs 1lb),
>
>Just a little over. I US gallon of water weighs 8.345 lbs, so 1 US
>pint weighs 1.04 lbs. It comes from having 1 measurement system apply
>to both volume and weight. Dumb.

"A pint's a pound the world around."

Is bullshit.

--Blair
"Nertz."