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{{quote|''"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"''|Grandpa, ''[[The Simpsons]]''<ref name="rods-to-hogshead">About 0.002 MPG.That's very, very, shitty.</ref>}}
 
36-24-36. (Maybe, if she's 5'3".)
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For those wondering, a hogshead is 63 U.S. liquid gallons, and a rod is 16.5 feet. 40 rods to a hogshead, as mentioned in the quote above, works out to approximately 120,000 liters per 100&nbsp;km.
In miles per gallon that's statistical zero.<ref>.002mpUSg< name="rods-to-hogshead" /ref> A gas-guzzler even by American standards of [[The Nineties|the quote's era]], then.
 
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