Medieval riddles from Alcuin

[Imperial Dave]

That's a tonne off my mind....

[Denis Grey]

Yeah, I feel the SI units need some suitable mnemonics for the modern age... 

...Anyone know some good rhymes involving kilogrammes and litres?

 

A litre of water's a pint and three-quarters.  Two and a quarter pounds of jam weigh about a kilogramme.

[Keraunos]

The meat on one of my lambs, about twenty kilogrammes 

[Erpingham]

The meat on one of my lambs, about twenty kilogrammes 

This does seem a rather agricultural one. City dwellers may struggle 

[Jim Webster]

The meat on one of my lambs, about twenty kilogrammes 

This does seem a rather agricultural one. City dwellers may struggle 

Anybody who has been hit amidships by a 40kg live weight lamb moving at speed and a couple of feet clear of the ground will struggle 

[Denis Grey]

The meat on one of my lambs, about twenty kilogrammes 

This does seem a rather agricultural one. City dwellers may struggle 

Anybody who has been hit amidships by a 40kg live weight lamb moving at speed and a couple of feet clear of the ground will struggle 

In the soya-latte sipping quarters, the very concept of lamb is a bit of a struggle.

[Imperial Dave]

Let alone mutton...

[Jim Webster]

Let alone mutton...

even when dressed as lamb

[Erpingham]

Let alone mutton...

And let us not forget hoggett, which many regard as tastier than lamb but less tough than mutton.

[Imperial Dave]

Not heard that one before 

[Erpingham]

Hoggett (sometimes hogget) is the meat of a sheep between one and two years old. So between lamb and mutton in age. It's sometimes seen in Yorkshire butchers.

[Imperial Dave]

Well well, you learn something new everyday

Mutton dressed as hoggett

[Cantabrigian]

According to wiki, the Americans say "The pint is a pound the world around".

It's been a long, long time since you could get a pint for a pound in the UK...

[RichT]

Well well, you learn something new everyday

Mutton dressed as hoggett

You've not heard of Farmer Hoggett, as played by the great James Cromwell?

[Nick Harbud]

I thought hoggetts were those short creatures with furry feet who lived in subterranean houses in the Shire....