"A Pint's a Pound the World Around"

       This is something Connie taught me that I’d never heard before but was a part of her "folk" knowledge.  These pithy, often rhyming catch phrases are useful and memorable.
 
       I know it now too and have used it.  Weighing myself this morning, as I do every day, I forgot to delay the two cups of water I also have every day to ward off kidney stones until after weighing; but I knew I could subtract one pound from my weight, and it would be accurate!  “A pint’s a pound the world around.”