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• U.S. pints and Imperial pints
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  There's a difference between a U.S. pint (16 fl oz) and an Imperial pint (20 fl oz), which means that a pint's a pound only in the USA. An Imperial gallon of water weighs ten pounds, which means, (if I've got my old pre-metrication sums right) that a fluid ounce of water weighs an ounce. Now, it seems that the U.S. gallon is also different from the U.S. gallon, which make sense.
  
  In metric terms, a litre (one cubic decimetre, 1000 cubic centimetres) of water weighs one kilogram (1000 grams).
  

  Posted by c0redump on December 11, 2008 at 15:09:33 Pacific Time

• U.S. pints and Imperial pints
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  Darnit, I meant to say that the Imperial gallon is different from the U.S. gallon!

  Posted by c0redump on December 11, 2008 at 15:10:43 Pacific Time

• U.S. pints and Imperial pints
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  Best forget that rhyme, it only applies to one continent, not "the world round". A better rhyme is "a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter".
  
  Both US and Imperial gallons are 8 pints but because of the different sizes of a pint a US gallon is only 6 Imperial pints.
  
  And of course you get drunk faster drinking pints of British beer...
  

  Posted by rob1951 on December 27, 2008 at 04:20:32 Pacific Time