Things I learned today

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

The difference between bass and treble clef.

You couldn't tell the difference between a fish and a music symbol?

[Morrigoon]

Treble: Every Good Boy Does Fine (or FACE)
Bass: All Cows Eat Grass

What's the name of that other weird clef? I think violas use it?

[Kevy Baby]

George. George Clef.




Actually, the other clef is known officially as the C Clef (as Treble Clef is formally the G Clef and the Bass Clef is formally the F Clef), but is know as either the Alto Clef or Tenor Clef, depending on where it is placed on the staff.

[lashbear]

Treble: Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips.

[Kevy Baby]

I always wondered why BBL was the abbreviation for barrel. Watching an episode of Dirty Jobs prompted me to look it up; I got the same basic answer from multiple sites, so I copy the last one I looked at (from here):

In the early 1860's, when oil production began, there was no standard container for oil, so oil and petroleum products were stored and transported in barrels of all different shapes and sizes (beer barrels, fish barrels, molasses barrels, turpentine barrels, etc.). By the early 1870's, the 42-gallon barrel had been adopted as the standard for oil trade. This was 2 gallons per barrel more than the 40-gallon standard used by many other industries at the time. The extra 2 gallons was to allow for evaporation and leaking during tranport (most barrels were made of wood). Standard Oil began manufacturing 42 gallon barrels that were blue to be used for transporting petroleum. The use of a blue barrel, abbreviated "bbl," guaranteed a buyer that this was a 42-gallon barrel.

What is interesting is that I have seen this abbreviation used for 55 gallon barrels.

[Not Afraid]

teeheehee. Kevy said Staff.

[RStar]

Strange, he usually says stiff.

[Betty]

stuff stiff staff.

heh heh. /buthead.