Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 22, 2021

Who knows and who cares. I don’t work with primitive measurments.

I wonder how many would remember what a hogshead is…

How many drams in a schmidgen?

The old Pee-Chee school folders had some of those conversions. I don’t remember ever being tested (or even taught) on any of those esoteric measures.

9 inch nails

Growing up in a small rural town, you could always tell the real farm kids, because they measured distances in rods. They also gave directions as “Turn west” or, “It’s over yonder.”

It’s sock it to me time.

A hogshead is 1/4 tun and a barrel is 1/8 tun. So a hogshead should be two barrels. As for a the quarter question, maybe twenty-five penny nails? And for a rood, depending on the era, seven to eight rods.

Metric system rules !

Zero followed by F, or perhaps D Minus.

Is it really how many whos in a what? That should be how many watts in a whom. (w)ohm.

German beer drinking song – Roll Out the Barrel. We’ll have a barrel of fun.

English beer drinking song – Roll Out the Hogshead. We’ll have a Hogshead of fun.

Kind of makes you glad it is Oktoberfest instead of Pubfest.

2 barrels to 1 hogshead (US)2.25 inches to a nail (cloth measurement)4 Nails to a quarter (still cloth measurement)40 sq. rods to a rood

I’d have probably been right there with Patty, considering I had to look up all the conversions.

Number of barrels in a hogshead: 2, Inches in a nail: 2.5, Nails in a quarter: N/A, Square rods in a rood: 40.

Sometimes nails comes in pennies, as in a 8 penny nail.

So many questions, so little time!

Why ZERO time?

Hogsheads? Man, this strip is old.

Who’s on first.

I grew up in the 70’s, and all that was before my time!

A typical room size is about 3.5 meters or eleven feet, five and three quarter inches.

I spelled out the Imperial measurement rather than depicting it in Arabic numbers because it makes just as much sense that way.

In Metric there is only one measure of length: the meter. In the Imperial system there are two measures of lengths: feet and inches and if you want yards, rods, miles, furlongs and leagues.

In Metric, you deal with decimals: half of 0.5 meters is 0.25 meters. In Imperial system half of 1 foot, 7 1/2 inches is what? (Try doing that math in your head). That’s why carpenters scribble on pieces of wood all the time. They are probably the only profession who can still do what was to me 4th grade mathematics and long division.

Then there are weights where we use a base 16 system and time where we use a base 60 system.

At least the two systems agree on time.

A shave and a haircut is no longer two bits

How many angels dance on the head of a pin?

How many furlongs per fortnight. How many fatoms in a league?

what are they teaching them these days?

I don’t remember Peppermint Patty talking about zeroes. I mostly remember her talking about the dreaded D-minuses.

Horton would know the answer to that last question.

how many Z’s in a nap – I’m worn out thinking about it – night

How many furlongs in a fortnight?

PP is a barrel of laughs, some days.

I went to school at about the same time as Patty (in 5th Grade in 1974) and I know we never were taught hogsheads or any of this silliness.

And she thought the metric system was bad.

Math? No thanks.

Inches in a nail? What type of nail? I mean different nails are different sizes.

I’m still waiting for someone to definitively declare the length of a cubit as in Noah’s Ark…

Inch worm, inch worm, measuring the marigolds….

There are plans afoot to stop using those measurement and replace them with more sensible ones. Like buttloads, stones and mils.