Declan Murphy wrote:
> Michael Cash wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:46:37 +0900, Declan Murphy
>> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>> inscribed:
>>
>>> Michael Cash wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:24:35 +0900, Brett Robson
>>>> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>>>
>>>>> Raj Feridun wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:05:38 +0900, Brett Robson
>>>>>> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was serious. Had it been a hammered dulcimer I would have 
>>>>>>>> bought it. They have a mandolin and banjo as well; I'm very 
>>>>>>>> tempted by both.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I thought about getting a mandolin and tuning it in a guitar 
>>>>>>> tuning, but I would end up playing "Losing My Religion" non-stop. 
>>>>>>> They are usually tuned in 4ths like a violin but you could tune 
>>>>>>> in 5ths.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a professional violinist I can assure you the violin's strings are
>>>>>> in perfect 5ths: G, D, A and E.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Raj
>>>>>>
>>>>> As a non profesional guitar hack I can console myself that guitars 
>>>>> are in fact tuned in 4ths, E A D G, which is the same backwards! If 
>>>>> I turn my bass upside down it becomes a violin?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> An Australian in his natural state, upending a fifth.
>>>
>>>
>>> Would take more than five IMO. Unless they were drinking from 
>>> pitchers or sumthin.
>>
>>
>> I hope I haven't caused an inadvertent whoosh with an Americanism. Are
>> we talking about the same "fifth"?
> 
> 
> I very much doubt that we are talking about the same "fifth", especially 
> since I'm upending my seventh.
> 

A fifth is Seppo for 750ml bottle of liquor, sweet beautiful 
liquor. It's called that because it is a fifth of an fluid ounce 
or quart or imperial liquid ton or somefink, whatever five times 
750ml is in the ancien syst$(D??(Bme de mesure.