Pound for Pound and more funny deep thoughts

9.14.2009

Obscure Medical Fact #2: Pound for pound, humans weigh as much as horses.

Flimtonius

Good to know. Then it means I got a great deal when I swapped a 60 lb kid for a 780 lb horse. Sweet deal!
Yarnspinner

Yes, but which weighs more, a pound of lead or 1lb of feathers?
- Flimtonius
  
  Are we to assume that you are weighing them in the same location, or is one of the objects being weighed on the moon, and the other on Jupiter?
- Dan of the Day
  
  This whole conversation is pointless, inane and ridiculous. Of course a pound of lead weighs more than 1lb of feathers. Everyone knows lead weighs more than feathers!