"Rich S." wrote:

"Russell Kent" wrote in message
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nafod40 wrote:

OOooooooo..... *SO* close, and yet just off. I think you meant to say:
"If I put 100 lbs of crap in a 100 lb bag, and 100 lbs of crap in a 150 lb
bag,
which bag holds more crap?"

That's an easy one - A 150 lb (capacity) bag holds more crap than a 100 lb
(capacity) bag.

I think YOU meant to say, "If I put 100 lbs of crap in a 100 lb bag, and 100
lbs of crap in a 150 lb bag, Which bag contains more crap?"

Rich "150 lbs of crap in a 100 lb bag is known as a 'Blivet'". S.

Not so fast. If my eyes aren't deceiving me, the only change you made was
"contains" for "holds". English being an exceptionally slippery language, it
seems to me that those terms are synonymous. Makes it rather hard to give a
definitive answer to the original poster's question if we aren't clear on
whether "hold/contains" means "at the moment" or "at maximum capacity", which I
believe is the issue that nafod40 was attempting to illustrate with his
posting. I was only trying to show that nafod40's choice of numbers weren't
quite parallel to the original poster's question.

BTW, there's entirely too much crap in here. :-)

ob. aviation content: My Dad used to drop blivets from the B-52 he flew. :-)

Russell Kent