Playboy After Hours
May, 1962
With its motley assortment of gallons, inches, rods, drams, pecks and gills, America's system of weights and measures is so complex that few of us can claim to fathom it fully. We found ourself reflecting recently on the tortuous mental gymnastics to which its intricate illogic must subject our European friends -- accustomed to the pristine simplicity of the metric system -- in their efforts to master the subtleties of a language steeped in everyday references to nonmetric measurements. The foll...
