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View PostCan someone enlighten me, not being a yank with the benefit of local knowledge, I have a problem with some of your weights and measures.

 

Pounds, gallons and even miles I get, Australia switched over to decimal in the late 60's.

 

So just how much is a chunk?

 

How about a hunk?

 

A knurdle? What about a generous knurdle?

 

A smidge?

 

A cord?

 

And there is many more out there, please help out.

 

What makes it really confusing is that many of these, such as ****load, can vary in volume from person to person while others are much more precise like "a Frenchman", which is always 3 inches.

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View PostUsually something thats broken off, a solid, Like chocolate.

"Let me have a chunk of that"

Not to be confused with Chunkingupck.gif

 

 

Bout time someone chimed in with an explanation!

I'm guilty for jumping in and tryin to be funny.

 

The "hunk" is more referred to something that noone wants.

As in a "hunk of junk" pertaining to an old car thats deteriorated.

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View PostBout time someone chimed in with an explanation!

I'm guilty for jumping in and tryin to be funny.

 

The "hunk" is more referred to something that noone wants.

As in a "hunk of junk" pertaining to an old car thats deteriorated.

 

Unless the person using the word is a woman. Women love hunks. Men not so much. Unless the man happens to be in the FailClass of '09, in which case he might, too.

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View PostCan someone enlighten me, not being a yank with the benefit of local knowledge, I have a problem with some of your weights and measures.

 

Pounds, gallons and even miles I get, Australia switched over to decimal in the late 60's.

 

So just how much is a chunk?

 

How about a hunk?

 

A knurdle? What about a generous knurdle?

 

A smidge?

 

A cord?

 

And there is many more out there, please help out.

 

 

 

Only one of these terms has a specific definition:

 

A cord of wood is a pile 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet.

 

Cord has other definitions.

 

I have never heard or seen the word knurdle.

 

 

Urban Dictionary: Knerdle, or knurdle or nerdle or nurdle

 

Knerdle, or knurdle or nerdle or nurdle - 3 definitions - to score runs by nudging the ball into a gap (cricket)

 

Urban Dictionary: knurdle linkscanner:

 

Oct 23, 2007 ... knurdle - 1 definition - To drop food down your clean top leaving a stain, while eating with other people who notice.

"Who is John Galt?"
Who?
You?

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Thanks for that, it's a new one for me, had to look it up.

Politicians and diapers should be changed often and regularly,  invariably for the same reason.

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View PostOnly one of these terms has a specific definition:

 

A cord of wood is a pile 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet.

 

Cord has other definitions.

 

I have never heard or seen the word knurdle.

 

 

Wondered about a cord, we used to buy wood by the half ton, or ton - mostly that was arbitrary any way.

 

A knurdle must be west coast, a Californian boat bunny I used to sail with in Aussie used it all the time. It too was an arbitrary measure.

Politicians and diapers should be changed often and regularly,  invariably for the same reason.

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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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View PostWondered about a cord, we used to buy wood by the half ton, or ton - mostly that was arbitrary any way.

 

A knurdle must be west coast, a Californian boat bunny I used to sail with in Aussie used it all the time. It too was an arbitrary measure.

 

 

I live in CA and grew up in NY.

Knurdle is new to me.

 

 

A cord of wood can be stacked and packed in different ways with different sized pieces of different kinds of wood.

 

Buying wood by the pound more accurately matches price with quantity.

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View PostI live in CA and grew up in NY.

Knurdle is new to me.

 

 

Claudia was born and raised in San Diego

Politicians and diapers should be changed often and regularly,  invariably for the same reason.

______________________________________________________________

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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I have never heard or seen the word knurdle.

 

 

Urban Dictionary: Knerdle, or knurdle or nerdle or nurdle

 

Knerdle, or knurdle or nerdle or nurdle 8 up, 5 down

 

small amount, pea sized

use only a nerdle of toothpaste when brushing your teeth

Politicians and diapers should be changed often and regularly,  invariably for the same reason.

______________________________________________________________

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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