Maybe Ryan is trying to work out how much fluid the England team will have to drink to replace the p*ss he takes out of them!!! Keep it simple son, & get the ball onto big Hartson's head!
Feel sorry for me - I have Hampden tickets. I could be very anti-German (well just against Berti) on Saturday/Sunday.
OK, I'm new here. Sorry to bring up this old chestnut, but I have seen this figure or derivatives of it repeatedly used incorrectly here (eg fifth of liquor = 46.08 cu. in.). I decided to quote this post as it references the source for the error.
This figure is wrong. The US gallon is defined as 231 cu. in. exactly and has been since 1832 when the US first created a standards organization at the Federal level. This can be confirmed by downloading NIST Handbook 44 Appendix C, or NIST SP447 (an interesting history of American standards) from the NIST site.
As far as I can determine, this gallon had been the prevailing gallon used in The Colonies and had been declared this same size by Parliament in 1707 (Admittedly, I am not an expert in British measure), as a rounded version of a previous definition, a cyclinder having inside dimensions of 7" D x 6" H, which gives a volume of about 230.9 cu. in., not 230.4 cu. in. for which I have found no basis, whatsoever.
The website quoted is simply wrong. Since the gallon is the wrong size, the weight of water probably is too, but as that is not it's legal definition, and no one uses the troy pound, who really cares.
If you visit his site you will see that an ancestor (?) of his published a booklet of conversion tables in the 1820's. XCOLE has loaded it onto the Web and regularly dumps sections of it onto this board. Also, he never responds to any questions put to him.
The posts from xcole aren't actually made by a real person. Apparently Rory Ely Cole, who runs the website, has made a program that randomly selects sections of the website and posts them here at regular intervals.
Current Topic - 1 fl.gal. = 10 55/432 troy lb. distilled water @ 39.2° = 230.400 cu.''