OnlineConversion.com

This site converts or has tables for Length/Distance, Temperatures, Speed, Liquid and Dry Volume, Weight/Mass, Cooking Uniits, Date and Time Conversions & Distances (including Dog Years), Area, Power, Energy, Density, Force, Pressure, Monthly Payments, Currency, and much more.

Thanks, Dorian.

Yes, that's a very convenient site. I've had it saved to my faves for awhile now. Comes in very handy!

I've seen a few other sites like this, and found them useful. What I hadn't known about, until today, was that Google has quietly added a conversion feature and a calculator to its search engine. Just type something like:
5 inches in centimeters
or
5 + 6
into the Google link on this page to see what I mean (it can deal with more obscure units and complex math as well, of course).

Another good site:

www.nodc.noaa.gov

The conversion table is still coming in handy. I was just about to ask if anyone knew how many ounces were in a shot, and then I remembered this thread. Thanks again.

Thanks Dorian! Great link.

www.calculateme.com
Has a simple to use cross-reference (Covers most of the Common Queries)

This is worth a look at, it shows how Imperial liquid measures in the Uk Brewing trade are calculated
www.simpson.uk.com/beers/UK/Measures.htm

Interesting information, Bedstor.

So if a man asks the landlady for a firkin, he gets 72 pints, right?

Precisely dg. You saw my query elsewhere? Fuse got it
NOTE Would DG have allowed it in the Trivia section "as is?"

Well, I guess you'd have to ask DG that question yourself, Bedstor. However, I think it would depend on how the question was worded.

Oh dg he gets a free Barrel or Cask as well for his Firkins worth
NOTE I see the word dates from the 1300's in the M/W(Whose definition is vague) so its a very early English word

There is a Firkin Brewery Company in London. It has a number of pubs, all with in-house brewing. They mostly had 'firkin' in their names, so disgruntled husbands could shout at their wives " That's it, I've had enough. I'm off to the Firkin pub"

The chain got taken over, I think by the Slug and Lettuce chain of pubs (a trading name of a big brewers).

It's website is definitely worth a visit (Don't touch the 'mute' on the greetings page )

The only measure or reference to a barrel in a pub name around her is 'tun'. In this village it's 'The Three Tuns'.The founding landlady, long ago, got a lot more than a firkin when the name was discussed . A firkin is a small barrel.If she asked for a firkin name, she got more than a firkin on the board outside. (The story that 'three tuns' was a reference to her build is false. It would be 'three tons' anyway).

PS the website says there are to be 31 Firkin pubs in Canada.

Firkin Pubs

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PS the website says there are to be 31 Firkin pubs in Canada.

Yes! I've been to The Fiddle and Firkin in Cambridge, Ontario.

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PS the website says there are to be 31 Firkin pubs in Canada.

Yes! I've been to The Fiddle and Firkin in Cambridge, Ontario.

The one in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, is The Fresher and Firkin. It must be the biggest pub in Cambridge. It used to be a cinema.The next largest is also a former cinema. It's getting so we have one multiplex and many 'art houses'.There are lots of new or newish pubs though,mostly aimed at a clientele in its early twenties (they drink stuff with big profit margins and like food with massive profit margins )

Is there a fiddle in yours? There are freshers, first year undergraduates, in ours

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Is there a fiddle in yours

I only went there a couple of times, and didn't see anyone fiddling with anything.

I see the Firkin Pubs are invading the US too!

None around here yet,,,,