🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: sci.electronics.design
Article #1707

Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?

#1707
From: Michael A. Terrell
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 07:14
28 lines
2987 bytes
Eeyore wrote:
> 
> Not UK fl oz of course.
> 
> I did just check my own bottle of L&P and to my surprise it's labelled "
> 150ml (5.3 fl oz) " but those are UK fl oz. There is no actual prohibition of
> dual marking but almost no-one does it and it wouldn't be US fl oz since they
> aren't legal here. Your bottle would be 15.6 fl oz here. Proof it any were
> needed that what you have there is an example of export labelling for the US
> market. It bears no resemblance in any other way either to the UK bottle
> which is distinguishable by its orange label e.g.
> http://www.leaperrins.ca/homeEN.asp
> 
> I also checked a few other items and no others had fl oz on them. They're all
> in ml.


   They don't want to confuse small minds like yours, that can't do more
then the simplest math.


-- 
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
Technical Details
Message-ID: <4837C071.21F3E287@earthlink.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
References: <482F810D.AC8F5CB2@hotmail.com> <njqXj.1135$BL6.119@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com> <pan.2008.05.17.01.18.00.888589@woa.com.au> <fnFXj.506$mh5.166@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com> <419ae$48313250$6380@news.teranews.com> <4832132C.E11C65C1@hotmail.com> <6KHYj.93$y_.6@fe091.usenetserver.com> <4835B92B.B241F745@hotmail.com> <2vlb34d5fi85pjaqrpn2sem5d7c7p6pecb@4ax.com> <4835FC05.6084105B@hotmail.com> <7rad34l0fn6qipfhenltov5eueib2d78aa@4ax.com> <g16fav$tsd$1@aioe.org> <4836C663.6E0BE7C5@hotmail.com> <jnnd34tlb42s4oge21ps86gpnqlbtqkcrt@4ax.com> <4836EF18.C9FE3961@hotmail.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 112d1e,11cc866c366c95ec
X-Google-Thread: 103407,11cc866c366c95ec
X-Google-Attributes: gid112d1e,gid103407,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 02:14:26 -0500
Message-ID: <4837C071.21F3E287@earthlink.net>
Cancel-Lock: sha1:w+kInJNiGxfBEXBQt1GmDiGa5cg=
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 03:14:57 -0400
From: "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: mike.terrell@earthlink.net
Organization: http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.terrell/
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,aus.electronics
Subject: Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?
References: <482F810D.AC8F5CB2@hotmail.com> <njqXj.1135$BL6.119@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com> <pan.2008.05.17.01.18.00.888589@woa.com.au> <fnFXj.506$mh5.166@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com> <419ae$48313250$6380@news.teranews.com> <4832132C.E11C65C1@hotmail.com> <6KHYj.93$y_.6@fe091.usenetserver.com> <4835B92B.B241F745@hotmail.com> <2vlb34d5fi85pjaqrpn2sem5d7c7p6pecb@4ax.com> <4835FC05.6084105B@hotmail.com> <7rad34l0fn6qipfhenltov5eueib2d78aa@4ax.com> <g16fav$tsd$1@aioe.org> <4836C663.6E0BE7C5@hotmail.com> <jnnd34tlb42s4oge21ps86gpnqlbtqkcrt@4ax.com> <4836EF18.C9FE3961@hotmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-NFilter: 1.2.1-b1
Lines: 28
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.110.34.161
X-Trace: sv3-IbyvRa7RH/VTawDXA2q6krpMmSLUaAEBTSqhFTYPATd+/KnirNdC95xZbd9+XZ6MhawRWe/UyBY6MVl!IkufOU/eQNq6GS4g9DUTAh1JcCYsnMVgLINmAH/DwlyZEQLOwtmZEAg5g0zg/GX1EWR2mcj7csII!bapv5ian4OrWzh7Y61o=
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.39