Or not... https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169140590/-the-whole-nine-yards-of-what
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL Well, "the whole nine yards" is about cloth, so I guess it fits the two known items. :-) As for things being in SI and not US, but labeled as US, yes, I too am seeing that. If you buy washers (for bolts) at the big box stores, they have larger holes than the ones at the true hardware store. And, they look to actually be metric when you measure them. Also, plywood seems to be a bit "off" on the thickness too. The router bits I used to use to make glue-up dado slots (with plywood going into the slot) are a little off now. Tony Thigpen Jeremy Nicoll wrote on 7/21/20 2:29 PM: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, at 17:00, Tony Thigpen wrote: >> It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are >> measuring. >> >> The only thing I know that is measured in yards is cloth and football. > > What about "the whole nine yards"? > > >> In home improvements, boards and such are measured in feet,inch,16ths. >> That is it. Not yards,feet,inch,16th. > > In the UK, stuff is now labelled in cm or mm, but actual sizes of many > things haven't changed. And timber sizes are often nominal anyway, eg > the size of something before it was planed or sawn. > > What used to be an 8 foot by 2 foot board is typically now sold as > 2400x600. > > >> When driving down the road, it's all miles or 1/10 of a mile. We >> don't say Mile,yard,feet,inch,16th. > > On motorways etc the countdown markers to where a slip-road starts > were supposedly at 100 yard intervals. A quick google suggests they > are "at about 100 yard/metre" intervals now, so goodness knows what > the actual distances are. But it hardly matters for the purpose of > seeing one's approaching the start of the slip. > > > And incidentally both 1/16 and 1/32 were easy to work with (eg in DIY > with timber) being, if you like just a bit more and just a bit less > than 1 mm. > > On the other hand if you were machining metal you'd likely have been > working in "thou" ie thousandths of an inch. Apparently USAians call > that a "mil" - which must be easily confused with millimetre. > > See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousandth_of_an_inch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
