My friend has won his weight in beer. How much beer is that?

[Chairman_Pow]

@JohnDM

One cubic foot of a tasty beer weighs 68 pounds or 4 serpents at 17, the cobra that is.

And so 165 pounds is some 121 pints of beer.

Mmm

Isn’t King Cobra a malt liquor and not a beer?

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

@JohnDM

I have had one appartion at 2:30am May 16th 1983 where I was shown geometry by way of special tents in the other set of four dimensions, the place most go at death.

Was it the same kind of tents they used to cover houses when they fumigate for bugs?

That would explain a lot.

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

@Gaudere

They counted the weight of the bottles and rounded up–he actually weighed 6.5 cases.

He should have insisted on beer in plastic bottles - always a sure indicator of qulaity
. Anyhoo, where’s the party?

[rocking_chair]

the rhyme is:

a pint is a pound the world around.

[jjimm]

@rocking chair

the rhyme is:

a pint is a pound the world around.

And a kilo’s a liter.
Which I think is neater.

[Derleth]

@jjimm

And a kilo’s a liter.
Which I think is neater.

Not exactly.

@my cite

The kilogram is defined as the mass of the standard kilogram, a platinum-iridium bar in the custody of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) near Paris, France. Copies of this bar are kept by the standards agencies of all the major industrial nations, including the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). One kilogram equals exactly 1000 grams, or about 2.204 622 6 pounds. By design, this is approximately the mass of a liter of water.

Note the last sentence: They defined the kilogram to make it roughly equal in mass to a liter of water at STP, but it is not defined to be exactly thus. Presumably because measuring the mass of a liter of water at STP isn’t as accurate, with our tools, as you need a definition to be under real laboratory conditions.

I doubt a pint of water at STP is overly close to massing one pound, either. (And, yes, the pound is a unit of mass. The unit of force is the poundal.)

[jjimm]

Don’t ruin my trite doggerel with resort to the truth and facts, goddamnit. :mad:

[Chairman_Pow]

Derleth, this is the kind of talk that only encourages people like JohnDM.

Oh wait, he’s banned.

[Derleth]

:: Bows ::

August Derleth, Professional Killjoy
For those who think joy cometh in the mourning.

[Una_Persson]

@Derleth

I doubt a pint of water at STP is overly close to massing one pound, either. (And, yes, the pound is a unit of mass. The unit of force is the poundal.)

And a pint is quite different in the UK and Ireland versus the US.

[asterion]

@Chairman Pow

Derleth, this is the kind of talk that only encourages people like JohnDM.

Oh wait, he’s banned.

Of course, the funny thing is that this is the one thread where all his crap about numbers and numerology was actually somewhat appropriate.

So, how many cases of beer would it take to build a replica of the Great Pyramid, and how much would it weigh?

[1010011010]

@Derleth

I doubt a pint of water at STP is overly close to massing one pound, either. (And, yes, the pound is a unit of mass. The unit of force is the poundal.)

The slug is the unit of mass.

[wolfman]

So, how many cases of beer would it take to build a replica of the Great Pyramid,

Well, from experience, me and a three friends build a 5 foot dirt pyramid after 4 and a half cases, but if you want the great pyramid your gonna need a hell of a lot more beer than that.

[Derleth]

@1010011010

The slug is the unit of mass.

You’re right. Pound and poundal are both weight, slug is mass.

(If this is the true definition, I’ve found a bug in the standard Linux units utility: It defines the pound in terms of kilograms, a unit of mass, and the poundal in terms of kg m / s^2, obviously a unit of weight. The slug is defined in terms of lbf s^2 / ft, again a unit of weight. I want to be a bit more sure before I make the changes and report this, however.)

[Derleth]

Bah. I messed up: The slug is obviously (in the units programs’ mind) not a unit of weight.

Damn.

[Una_Persson]

Umm…guys, there’s pound-mass and pound-force (lbm and lbf), used in everyday engineering calculations to signify mass and force. (And I do use them every day…I’m using them right now in another window.)

http://www.me.utexas.edu/~thermonet/me326/web/chp_1/1_5_p1.html

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Pound.html

This has been posted about many times before, IIRC.

[hibernicus]

@Una Persson

And a pint is quite different in the UK and Ireland versus the US.

That’s right. The rhyme over here is “a pint of clear water weighs a pound and a quarter”. An imperial pint is 20 fl oz.

[Larry_Mudd]

@1010011010

The slug is the unit of mass.

If you bury a pint jar of beer up to its mouth in your garden, you won’t have to worry about slugs at all.