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A yard is three feet, or about the length of a man's stride.

A quart is about the maximum amount of whiskey one can drink without dying.

A pint's a pound, the world around.

My favorite is the cord, which is 128 cubic feet, or more often a stack of firewood 4 feet tall by four feet wide by eight feet long.




A pint is a pound so long as you're in the US. Everywhere else, it's 20 fl.oz, while a pound is 16 oz.


The cord is also the size of the standard US pickup truck bed with the wood stacked up about cab height.


A yard is not just a measure of length, but of volume and in a manner, constitution if you will, as it is also 2 1/2 pints[1], good sir or ma'am. Oy!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_of_ale


Between that and the GP, we could establish a conversion between yards and quarts.




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