 These engineering and science tech-centric
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it seems all the old content is reappearing all over (like this is). The humor is
light-hearted and clean and sometimes slightly assaultive to the easily-offended,
so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.
Humor #1,
#2, #3
IN THE BEGINNING was created the
Imperial Ton = 2240 pounds (lbs.) = 20 Hundredweight (cwt) i.e. 1 cwt = 112 lbs. AND YEA, when the Pilgrim
Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock, they said VERILY: One Hundredweight should be one hundred pounds and one
Ton should be 2000 lbs. THUS WAS CREATED the US Ton. BUT SORELY DISPLEASED were the merchants and
traders when they became aware that the colonials were making 10% on the side.
THUS IT CAME TO PASS that the British traders did declare that their galleons would, in future, also use measures
of 2000 lbs, and declared that this measure should be named the Short Ton.
MANY MOONS PASSED, and the tribes of Europe did send their high priests to council one with the other,
whereupon they begat the EEC (EU). THE TRIBES OF THE CONTINENT did pour scorn upon the Ton and the Short
Ton, and being more in number than the Britons did ordain that all nations should obey The New Commandment: Thou
shalt worship the Tonne which equates to 1000 kilograms (kg). THIS DID SORELY DISPLEASE THE BRITONS, since
this new measure did contain 2205 lbs., but it came to pass that more tribes came to join the EEC and the Britons
were obliged to pay homage to the Tonne. THE EEC DID COMMAND that tablets of stone be carved, on which was
writ: 1 IMPERIAL TON = 2240 lbs. 1 SHORT TON=1 US TON = 2000 lbs. 1 TONNE = 1000 kg = 2205 lbs.
THUS WAS THE CONFUSION CREATED. Amen ...from the Agilent T&M web site |
