Posted by John Lambert on June 23, 2009 at 05:55:09 user John.
In Reply to: Re: Absent posters (Trivia) posted by Peter Ceresole on June 23, 2009 at 04:21:09:
Ah, Peter. Don't you find now that the skill it gave to your brain has lasted the rest of your life? Try finding the cube root of 343 in your head using Roman numerals only. I remember working in a bathtub factory in Adelaide and seeing the foremen write on a palette the total weight of a load of rejected tubs.It was something like this: 1 ton, three cwt, one quarter, 12 stone, eight pounds. I remember trying to work out how much it weighed in pounds. I also wondered if he was just being funny.