rods\ to\ the\ hog's\ head
- rods\ to\ the\ hog's\ head
A quaint and antiquated measurement of absolutely anything. The unit of measurement is a rod, checked against a hog's head. The implication is that whatever it is you're measuring, it's either very old, or happened a long time ago.
1. Abraham Simpson: I said the metric system is the tool of the devil... My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I likes it!
2. My first computer was a Commodore 64 that got four rods to the hog's head of memory.
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