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The Ice Cream Man
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Optimistic Cynic
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Some funny math going on in that article.
 
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Yep - the author is an idiot. He starts by stating gold is the most precious metal and finishes by stating 0.05 pennyweight is equal to 1 ounce of gold. The rest of the article is filled with garbage. Totally clueless.

There are 20 penneyweight in 1 TROY ounce and plenty of metal more valuable than gold.
 
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I thought this thread was going to be about taping a penny as a weight on the arm of a turn-table to keep the record from skipping.


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Well, at least it did get into What’s a henweigh?
 
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“Begs the question” doesn’t mean “brings up the question”.
 
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What about "metric shit ton", or "assload"?


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