"Russell Kent" wrote in message
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Not so fast. If my eyes aren't deceiving me, the only change you made was
"contains" for "holds". English being an exceptionally slippery language,
it
seems to me that those terms are synonymous. Makes it rather hard to give
a
definitive answer to the original poster's question if we aren't clear on
whether "hold/contains" means "at the moment" or "at maximum capacity",
which I
believe is the issue that nafod40 was attempting to illustrate with his
posting. I was only trying to show that nafod40's choice of numbers
weren't
quite parallel to the original poster's question.

BTW, there's entirely too much crap in here. :-)

ob. aviation content: My Dad used to drop blivets from the B-52 he flew.
:-)

Slippery? I won't go there. :^P

But I think "contains" is much more appropriate than "holds". Example - In
front of you are two empty sacks; one of 150 lbs capacity (assuming standard
crap mass/weight/volume/specific gravity) and another of 100 lbs capacity.
Which one "holds" more? Which one contains more? There's no correct answer -
it's just my opinion and probably stinks.

Aviation reply - No wonder the N. Vietnamese hated the Bee 52!!! Would that
be a weapon of Mass Corruption?

Rich S.