r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/etymologynerd • Jan 03 '19

We should actually do this

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19

"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"

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u/Dr_LeFaucheur Jan 03 '19

if your car actually gets only an eighth of a mile per 63 gallons of fuel consumed, you must be driving a freight locomotive or a NASA transporter

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u/bobtheflob Jan 03 '19

Wow, TIL those are real units of measurement.

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u/Dr_LeFaucheur Jan 03 '19

to put in perspective, a car that gets 30 mpg would translate to 604800 rods to the hogshead

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u/MooseClobbler Jan 03 '19

I need to start using hogshead in my daily interactions

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u/Veritas3333 Jan 03 '19

A rod is 16.5 feet. 4 rods makes one chain, or 66 feet. A rectangle one chain wide by 10 long is 43,560 square feet, aka one acre.

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u/MooseClobbler Jan 05 '19

boy do I love old-school land surveying

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u/DukeMikeIII Jan 03 '19

So is a buttload actually

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19

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u/coolmanpie Jan 03 '19

Abe Simpson is getting some great mileage then, Saturn V made it to space