Idea. Change lyrics of songs to have "proper" units. Also opening for film titles and such if you want.
Background. We have a fine IRC channel on the site but occasionally it sees people have to describe measurements of things. I know what most are (science and all that) and can convert but I have no mental concept of them. Rather than learn such a thing I thought I would convert everything
Also know cm are for schoolboys.
So once instance might be
Half a pound of tupenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
That then becomes
0.226 kg of tupenny rice
0.226 kg of treacle
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
I might have changed it to "0.226 kg of 14 1/2 new pence rice" but that would probably broken the flow.
As subtlety is not a thing in EOF these days then if you are a filthy cretin that uses imperial measurements and want to convert kilos to pounds that is fine too
...
Crack will sell in the neighborhood
To the corner house hounds
Miss Parker, little Joe, and Todd Sound
Or anybody that he know
So I copped me a bird, better known as 2.2 pounds
Now everybody know I went from po', to a n**** that got pounds
...
Background. We have a fine IRC channel on the site but occasionally it sees people have to describe measurements of things. I know what most are (science and all that) and can convert but I have no mental concept of them. Rather than learn such a thing I thought I would convert everything
Also know cm are for schoolboys.
So once instance might be
Half a pound of tupenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
That then becomes
0.226 kg of tupenny rice
0.226 kg of treacle
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
I might have changed it to "0.226 kg of 14 1/2 new pence rice" but that would probably broken the flow.
As subtlety is not a thing in EOF these days then if you are a filthy cretin that uses imperial measurements and want to convert kilos to pounds that is fine too
...
Crack will sell in the neighborhood
To the corner house hounds
Miss Parker, little Joe, and Todd Sound
Or anybody that he know
So I copped me a bird, better known as 2.2 pounds
Now everybody know I went from po', to a n**** that got pounds
...
