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There are also "long units" which are 5/4 of a normal unit, making them 10 of the next smallest unit rather than 8, and "short units", which are 2/3 of a normal unit, or 1/12 of the next biggest unit. Some long and short units have special names.
Egg units possess the desirable quality that the proportions of flour to sugar to butter to eggs in a sponge cake is in the ratio 1:1:1:1, which makes it possible to weigh the ingredients using a set of balancing scales with the required number of eggs on one side. This also ensures a consistent egg proportion irrespective of the natural variation of the sizes of real eggs.
An egghorse is one eggtherm per second, or about 0.94 horsepower. One eggerg per second is an eggmouse.
The temperature scale is defined such that one degree egg is the temperature difference caused by heating an eggpound of water with an eggtherm. With the specific heat capacity of water taken as 4.1855Jg-1K-1, this leads to a degree egg of 0.3689K.
Setting the freezing point of water to zero degrees egg for everyday convenience leads to a boiling point of 271.07°E. Normal human body temperature on this scale is almost exactly 100°E.
On the absolute egg temperature scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are therefore 740.13ºE and 1011.5ºE respectively.
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EGG UNITS
Egg Units are based around the Standard Egg Mass of 56.8g. Fluid measure is based on the volume of the equivalent mass of water. Units are consistently divided into 8, which facilitates conversion between cubic and linear measure, since a doubling in dimensions corresponds to an eightfold increase in volume.There are also "long units" which are 5/4 of a normal unit, making them 10 of the next smallest unit rather than 8, and "short units", which are 2/3 of a normal unit, or 1/12 of the next biggest unit. Some long and short units have special names.
Egg units possess the desirable quality that the proportions of flour to sugar to butter to eggs in a sponge cake is in the ratio 1:1:1:1, which makes it possible to weigh the ingredients using a set of balancing scales with the required number of eggs on one side. This also ensures a consistent egg proportion irrespective of the natural variation of the sizes of real eggs.
Mass Units
| Unit | Equivalent to | Metric equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| Eggdram | — | 7.1g |
| Egg | 8 eggdrams | 56.8g |
| Eggpound | 8 eggs | 454.4g |
| Eggstone | 8 eggpounds | 3635.2g |
| Long eggstone | 10 eggpounds | 4544.0g |
Volume Units
| Unit | Equivalent to | Metric equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| Fluid eggdram | — | 7.1ml |
| Eggshot | 4 fluid eggdrams | 28.4ml |
| Long eggshot | 5 fluid eggdrams | 35.5ml |
| Fluid egg | 8 fluid eggdrams | 56.8ml |
| Fluid eggpound | 8 fluid eggs | 454.4ml |
| Eggpint (Long fluid eggpound) | 10 fluid eggs | 568.0ml |
| Eggallon | 8 fluid eggpounds | 3635.2ml |
| Long eggallon | 10 fluid eggpounds 8 eggpints | 4544.0ml |
Linear Units
Linear measure is defined such that a cube of water of side one eggwidth has a mass of one egg.| Unit | Equivalent to | Metric equivalent (approx.) |
|---|---|---|
| Eggshort | — | 4.805mm |
| Egginch (Short eggwidth) | 5 1/3 eggshorts | 25.63mm |
| Eggwidth | 8 eggshorts | 38.44mm |
| Egglength (Long eggwidth) | 10 eggshorts | 48.05mm |
| Eggfoot | 8 eggwidths | 307.52mm |
| Eggfathom | 8 eggfeet | 2.46m |
| Eggchain | 8 eggfathoms | 19.68m |
| Eggfur | 8 eggchains | 157.45m |
| Eggfurlong (Long eggfur) | 10 eggchains | 196.81m |
| Eggmile | 8 egglongs | 1259.60m |
| Long eggmile | 10 eggfurs 8 eggfurlongs | 1574.50m |
Energy, Power, and the Egg Temperature Scale
The unit of energy is the eggerg, defined as the amount of energy required to lift an eggpound by an eggfoot, in a standard gravitational field of 9.80665ms-2. This works out as approximately 1.37035 Joules. An eggtherm is defined as 512 eggergs.An egghorse is one eggtherm per second, or about 0.94 horsepower. One eggerg per second is an eggmouse.
The temperature scale is defined such that one degree egg is the temperature difference caused by heating an eggpound of water with an eggtherm. With the specific heat capacity of water taken as 4.1855Jg-1K-1, this leads to a degree egg of 0.3689K.
Setting the freezing point of water to zero degrees egg for everyday convenience leads to a boiling point of 271.07°E. Normal human body temperature on this scale is almost exactly 100°E.
On the absolute egg temperature scale, the freezing and boiling points of water are therefore 740.13ºE and 1011.5ºE respectively.
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London's BT Tower
Until the mid-1990s, the building was officially a secret, and did not appear on official maps. Its existence was finally "confirmed" by Kate Hoey, MP, on 19 February 1993: "Hon. Members have given examples of seemingly trivial information that remains officially secret. An example that has not been mentioned, but which is so trivial that it is worth mentioning, is the absence of the British Telecom tower from Ordnance Survey maps. I hope that I am covered by parliamentary privilege when I reveal that the British Telecom tower does exist and that its address is 60 Cleveland Street, London."[1]
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London's BT Tower
Until the mid-1990s, the building was officially a secret, and did not appear on official maps. Its existence was finally "confirmed" by Kate Hoey, MP, on 19 February 1993: "Hon. Members have given examples of seemingly trivial information that remains officially secret. An example that has not been mentioned, but which is so trivial that it is worth mentioning, is the absence of the British Telecom tower from Ordnance Survey maps. I hope that I am covered by parliamentary privilege when I reveal that the British Telecom tower does exist and that its address is 60 Cleveland Street, London."[1]
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» Clients Are Stupid
Well this is stupid, but not really a client...
Someone left his dog tied up while he went into a shop (so I suppose he was the shop's client). He tied it to...
A wheelie bin.
It was a big dog.
Have you ever seen a large dog taking a full-size wheelie bin for a walk down a busy high street? I have.
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Well this is stupid, but not really a client...
Someone left his dog tied up while he went into a shop (so I suppose he was the shop's client). He tied it to...
A wheelie bin.
It was a big dog.
Have you ever seen a large dog taking a full-size wheelie bin for a walk down a busy high street? I have.
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» Rubbish Towns
Taunton.
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Taunton.
And I thought it smelled bad on the outside.
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» The Dark
It was dark.
It was dark and it was raining. Dark, dark rain. I pulled my coat around me against the rain. The rain and the wind. It was windy as well. I had to get there. Get there, before I was too late. That strange message... was it a message? And that thousand year old inscription. A prophecy. Was I going mad? Soon I would find out. They'd warned me about her, but I had to know. Just had to know, you know? You know how it is, when it's dark, and raining, and windy, in the dark windy rain. A streetlamp went out above my head. Not below it, that wouldn't make any sense. Things have to make sense. I just had to make sense of it all. And so I carried on, through the wind and the rain. And the dark. Would I be too late? Too late to stop the prophecy? Was it even a prophecy? Who can tell? Let's find out. I had to hurry, they were after me. Maybe. Who, I don't know, but they might have been, so I had to hurry, you know, just in case.
I arrived there. It was dark. The doors were shut. So I opened them. It was difficult, because they were shut, but I managed it. The handle was cold. And brass. Cold and brass. I turned the cold brass handle and opened the door. I went in. It was dark. She was there.
Dead.
She was dead. I knew it. I was too late. They'd got there first. Who? The ones out of the prophecy. On the inscription. At least, that's the way it looked. I moved closer. Was she dead? Was she really dead? No. She was asleep. It was dark. Are you still reading this? Fucking hell.
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It was dark.
It was dark and it was raining. Dark, dark rain. I pulled my coat around me against the rain. The rain and the wind. It was windy as well. I had to get there. Get there, before I was too late. That strange message... was it a message? And that thousand year old inscription. A prophecy. Was I going mad? Soon I would find out. They'd warned me about her, but I had to know. Just had to know, you know? You know how it is, when it's dark, and raining, and windy, in the dark windy rain. A streetlamp went out above my head. Not below it, that wouldn't make any sense. Things have to make sense. I just had to make sense of it all. And so I carried on, through the wind and the rain. And the dark. Would I be too late? Too late to stop the prophecy? Was it even a prophecy? Who can tell? Let's find out. I had to hurry, they were after me. Maybe. Who, I don't know, but they might have been, so I had to hurry, you know, just in case.
I arrived there. It was dark. The doors were shut. So I opened them. It was difficult, because they were shut, but I managed it. The handle was cold. And brass. Cold and brass. I turned the cold brass handle and opened the door. I went in. It was dark. She was there.
Dead.
She was dead. I knew it. I was too late. They'd got there first. Who? The ones out of the prophecy. On the inscription. At least, that's the way it looked. I moved closer. Was she dead? Was she really dead? No. She was asleep. It was dark. Are you still reading this? Fucking hell.
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Revenge is sweet
I remember breaking a mirror when I was about 3... my Mum said "oh dear, it's seven years bad luck if you break a mirror"... which was quite frightening at the time.
Once, a comedy on the TV said something about "salad dressing that looks like semen", and my brother, who was quite young at the time, asks "what's semen?" And my Mum goes, straight away, "sailors."
Also my Grandmother used to say things like "eat your crusts, it'll make your hair curl" despite the fact that I really didn't want curly hair.
But my Dad was the worst. In particular, April Fools Day, which he observed religiously, was always an absolute nightmare. (He also once tried to convince me corned beef wasn't really made out of meat.) But my brother got his revenge one day...
Anyway, my Dad has this strange tendency to get obsessed with things now and again, and this time it was "stereograms" (you know those 3D pictures). So my brother made a picture on the computer, basically a completely random multicoloured mess. And then told my Dad it was a stereogram.
He stared at it for hours...
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Revenge is sweet
I remember breaking a mirror when I was about 3... my Mum said "oh dear, it's seven years bad luck if you break a mirror"... which was quite frightening at the time.
Once, a comedy on the TV said something about "salad dressing that looks like semen", and my brother, who was quite young at the time, asks "what's semen?" And my Mum goes, straight away, "sailors."
Also my Grandmother used to say things like "eat your crusts, it'll make your hair curl" despite the fact that I really didn't want curly hair.
But my Dad was the worst. In particular, April Fools Day, which he observed religiously, was always an absolute nightmare. (He also once tried to convince me corned beef wasn't really made out of meat.) But my brother got his revenge one day...
Anyway, my Dad has this strange tendency to get obsessed with things now and again, and this time it was "stereograms" (you know those 3D pictures). So my brother made a picture on the computer, basically a completely random multicoloured mess. And then told my Dad it was a stereogram.
He stared at it for hours...
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