A Hobbit of Oats

[blantyr]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Also, I predict that henceforth, all the (especially English-speaking) Downers are going to come to shops and ask for everything measured in weight/volume in hobbits

MIT has a habit of giving test problems in mixed systems of measurement. The problem might be given in english measures, feet, pounds and whatnot, but the answer would be asked for in metric measure. One time a professor forgot to specify what unit of speed the answer should be given in, and got all sorts of different and creative units of measurement in his responses, including furlongs per fortnight.

The hobbit seems to be just the sort of unit of measurement for such a situation!