Two Potties in a gallon, a real UOM?

Factual Questions
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I was playing with the kids with a unit conversion program on the iPad called MultiConvert and we were just doing gallons to quarts and all that. Multiconvert said that there was a unit of measurement know as potties and there were two potties in a US gallon.
Obviously the kids found this almost as funny as if there was a unit of measurement known as underpants or bottoms. I googled around to check that it was correct, but could find no references to potties as a unit of measurement. So I turn to you, masters of the arcane and pointless trivia and possessors of epic google skills, is there a UOM known as potties or is the Multiconvert app just wrong?

Also apparently there are 77286 barn-megaparsecs in a US Hogshead, which will be helpful if JJ Abrams or whoever needs a unit for the amount of smuggled Gulcutchian Medieval meed Han Solo had to dump.

2

It’s a pottle. No i, it’s an L.

3

Well so it is, substantially less funny to an 8 yo, and apparently I was also far to ready to see pottie as well.

Never mind, move along, and thanks.

4

Heh, one of my former professors measures the sugar for his tea in barn-megaparsecs (it’s about 0.6 teaspoons).

And while we’re at it, one acre is 99 inch-miles.

5

Depends on how much beer you’ve drunk.

6

A pottle of whitebait.

I read that New Zealanders are comfortable with the measure. I hope their autocorrect is, or they’re writing a lot about potatoes.

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2 tablespoons = 1 ounce
4 ounces = 1 gill
2 gills = 1 cup
2 cups = 1 pint
2 pints = 1 quart
2 quarts = 1 pottle
2 pottles = 1 gallon
ARGH!! WE NEED A MEASUREMENT FOR HALF A GILL TO RESTORE BALANCE TO THE UNIVERSE!!!

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If your kids are disappointed that there isn’t a unit called a “pottie”, you can always amuse them with the fact that a butt = 126 gallons (2 hogsheads). Or that an English butt is bigger than an American butt, and a Spanish butt is even bigger …

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Also (I think I learned here) that a lightnanosecond is about a foot. In the oil drilling industry ( at least here in the US) we measure hole depth in feet, i have been unsuccessful in getting them to switch to light nanoseconds which is far cooler sounding.

I think the kids will like the Butt measurment.

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Previous thread, about a song with lyrics referencing liquid measurements: Do people still sing elaborate drinking songs like "The Barley Mow"? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board
Perhaps the kids will enjoy working in a new verse about “pottles”? :smiley:

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Back in undergrad Physics we would amuse ourselves by calculating the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight.