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Re: We Had to Burn all the Oil in Order to Secure (4.00 / 2)
55 gallons is a "drum". A barrel is 42 gallons. (See here.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 02:36:56 AM EST
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55 gallons is a "drum". A barrel is 42

even closer to 0.1%!

"Imagine all the people/ Sharing all the world" -- John Lennon

by Cassiodorus on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 02:38:43 AM EST
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Heh (none / 0)
Don't know why anyone cares about precise quantification.

Drums, barrels, sunflowers, barrels of a drum, whatever.

Off to read Nnadir now.

"When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins

by EricC on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 01:44:06 AM EST
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