Gene Nygaard wrote:

I see that even that wasn't enough to get your attention, Chicolini.

OK, you got me there. Haven't a clue who Chicolini is. Should I be insulted? Do
you now feel better having insulted me?

How big a bat do I need to hit you over the head with to get your
attention?

Clear, intelligent statements usually work.

Besides gently (IMHO)
chastising the intervening poster's rant, I still provided a useful answer to
the original poster's question (12+ cu. ft.) and a reference to the source.

Yes, you got that right. Too bad nobody will pat you on the back for
it,

(I don't care)

because you obscured it with irrelevant nonsense,

Irrelevant? Wasn't to me. Nonsense? Um, nope.

and even worse, an incorrect claim of error on someone else's part.

Perhaps.

Uh, 2 years of high school physics (a jillion years ago). Perhaps a few web
references will help clear the cobwebs:

If you found those references, you also found many that got it right.

I just grabbed a few that looked to get to the point quickly.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Slug.html

Slugs are units of mass. That's not what I'm calling you on.

It wasn't clear in your earlier hostile response.

But that little-used 20th century invention, which didn't even appear
in physics textbooks before 1940, are by no stretch of the imagination
_the_ units of mass in "the English system."

I'm sorry, you're correct. I didn't mean to imply that they are the only unit of
mass. I was taught (perhaps incorrectly) that the unambiguous term for weight
(scientific meaning) in the English system was "slugs". Apparently it's also
"pounds force" now (it may have been them, too, and I've just forgotten it).

Pounds force also exist, but that's also beside the point.

sarcasm Whew. Glad we're past that. /sarcasm

Back up your claim that pounds are not units of mass. That's where you falsely
claimed that Dave S. was making an error.

Actually, I intended only to claim that Dave S. incorrectly stated mass when he
should have stated weight. From my perspective, the respondent about whom Dave S.
was complaining clearly intended "lbs" as a unit of weight.

The reference to the slug as the English mass unit was only intended as an offhand
remark. Pounds are units of mass in casual (non-technical) conversations, and
probably shorthand for "pounds force" in technical conversations.

For the record, I don't claim that slugs are the only unit of mass in the English
system, and I'm sorry to have inadvertantly made that implication.

Russell Kent