A funky dictionary, (I think)

[Pingu]

I found this in Dan's homepage:

Wikipedia har mycket skönt, tex ett antal obskyra mätenheter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_st ... easurement

Herm

A unit of volume, typically used to measure a woman's breast size. A herm is defined as the volume an average sized adult male can hold in his mouth.

Lawyer

Paleontologists measure food consumption by the Tyrannosaurus rex in lawyers, after the scene in the film Jurassic Park in which a lawyer is consumed in one bite.

Pinkwater

A notional unit of comfortable seating size; it can be used to describe both the width of a seat, or the width of a seat which a person needs to be comfortable in. Named for writer and book reviewer Daniel Pinkwater, and was coined by 'Click and Clack', the hosts of the Car Talk radio show.

Library of Congress

The term Library of Congress (or LoC) is sometimes used as a unit of measurement when discussing large amounts of data. It refers to the U.S. Library of Congress. One Library of Congress equals approximately 20 terabytes of uncompressed textual data.

[graeme]

Furlong/fortnight is a convenient unit. Historically, a decent level of my training is about 1 kiloFurlong/fortnight.

[King Penguin]

Apart from being a 9-gallon container of beer, a FIRKIN is also a measure of excess. It's usually encountered in pairs e.g.
2 firkin slow,
2 firkin drunk
etc.

[Pingu]

Furlong/fortnight is a convenient unit. Historically, a decent level of my training is about 1 kiloFurlong/fortnight.

avg. 100km per week?