> I don't miss Chains, Roods, Grains, Stones, Pounds, Ounces, Furlongs,
> Yards, Feet, Inches, Miles, Bushels, Farthingdales, tons, Perches.

Slugs!
You forgot slugs.
Where would we be without slugs ? !!!
We'd be mixing mass and force as the great unwashed now do in most
places on earth aka eg thinking they are using kgf when really using
kgm.
Not realising that their kgms are really a g of Newtons. And worse.

The lbf saved the Brits, and their Colonial inheritors from such a
gross misuse of units.

Deciislug  - about 1.5 kgm
Centislug - about 150 gramm
milli slug =3D mslug =3D about 15 gramm
As opposed to an 'Olin' aka 1 Mslug =3D  about 15 megatonne*
(Names based on small nukes were considered and rejected).

It's enough to make you want a Newton of beer.

Note to readers who have got this far: Apart from the unit name above
that may sound familiar, all the above material is factual E&OE.



 Russell

* megatonne has been used in place of the more consistent megatonnem
for technical reasons.
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