On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:28 pm, Radio Flyer posted to
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"uncle arnie" -mex. wrote in
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:44 pm, m II posted to
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wrote:

I was in my twenties before I doped out that a fifth of
whiskey meant a fifth of a gallon.


Not the right one. A twenty-sixer is a roughly a fifth of the US (128
ounces) gallon. The proper Gallon has 160 ounces.

26 liquid ounces is roughly 750 cc, or 3/4 liter.


A US ounce is bigger than an imperial ounce (.96 of a US oz.).


Well I better hide all my value-by-weight belongings from the metric
police.

No, better hide them from the British Imperial System Police. Though I
guess metric police would have you give back 1.25 millilitres (1.25 cc) for
each US ounce.