Since I stumbled over it just yesterday and posted a pic, and it was a real unit used in the early 1900's:
kilograms per square centimetre.
The actual gauge had it as, and I quote: "Kg. pr. qcm."
It equals ~0.98 bar pressure.
The gauge is on a water flow rate governor in a hydro power station, the gauge dated 1912.
I recall a Poul Anderson passage, possibly in "The Avatar":
"Tonight we are going to get boiled as an owl, and high as a kite."
"I refer, of course, to the International Standard Owl after it has consumed 1 liter of 100 proof ethanol, and the International Standard Kite, flown in a 1 gravity field at STP."
(Not an exact quote.)
(STP = Standard Temperature and Pressure, a temperature of 273.15 K (0 °C, 32 °F) and an absolute pressure of exactly 1 atm (101.325 kPa).)
My absolute favorite unit is the millihelen: the beauty required to launch one ship.
Coy...don't answer the phone Uddn'uddn
Also; Uddn'uddn is the measure of how drunk a Shriner is. Example: That Coy is two uddn'uddns to the wind.
YouTube
Shriner's Convention (Ray Stevens) w/ lyrics
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