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Re: B weight?

To: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: B weight?
From: Paul Parkanzky <p-parkanzky@onu.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:57:24 -0500
>My keen eye detects a difference of 40 pounds between unladen weight and 
>kerbside weight.  Obviously, the kerbside weight does not include a 
>driver, even an anorexic one.  If we assume a pint of gas weighs a little 
>less than a pint of water, and a pint of water weighs a pound (a pint's a 
>pound, the world around)(but a pint isn't a pint the world around, but 
>wotthehell) then a 10 gallon tank would weigh a bit less than 80 pounds, 
>but not as little as 40 pounds, so they are not figuring a full tank of 
>gas.  My WAG is that they include oil and coolant in both figures, but 
>maybe only gas in the kerbside weight.  Anyway, who cares.
>
>Speaking of british measures, I once heard that Sterling Moss lost 14 
>pounds during a long, hot race.  Clear proof that a rolling Moss gathers 
>no stone.
>
>WRG
>
>   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
>                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910
>
>
Got a good chuckle out of this one Ray.  Keep up the good posts!

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Ohio Northern University
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