> Grandfather: I'll have a gross of clothes pegs please.
> Dumb assistant: Sorry, we don't have them in a gross, but 
> we do have them in
> 12 dozen.

When I was doing mechanical practical experience training a 
lifetime or 3 ago I reduced a usually competent storeman in 
a machine shop helplessness by asking for an eg 12/32nd 
inch* drill. (or summat like that). He refused to try and 
standardise it and demanded I give it to him as a standard 
measure.


        Russell


* May have been 24/64ths.


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