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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:34:28 GMT, "Sorcerer"
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>"Helmut Wabnig" <.... .-- .- -... -. .. --. @ .- --- -. DOT .- -> wrote in
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>| On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:34:02 GMT, "Sorcerer"
>| <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>| >"Mike" <matmzc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>| >| Sorcerer wrote:
>| >| > Why should two Germanic tribes follow a frogs measure?
>| >| > England uses Celsius for temperature, miles on road signs
>| >| > and these days it's a moslem country.
>| >| > No, I will not join your crusade.
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>| >| Absolutely. Why should we give up our convenient Germanic system
>| >| of measure. Consider, for example, the beauty and logical simplicity
>| >| of our length units. We divide the mile into 1760 yards, the yard into
>| >| 3 feet, the foot into 12 inches, and then we switch to binary and
>| >| divide the inch into halves, quarters, eigths, sixteenths, etc.
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>| >| The frogs can do as they please, but personally I pefer to measure
>| >| electron velocities in furlongs per fortnight.
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>| >15 million Brits do not have the math skills of an 11-year-old.
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>http://www.wisebread.com/15-million-british-shoppers-with-math-skills-of-fifth-graders-get-government-help
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>| >And to think I help build this baby, based on feet and inches:
>| > www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3QVMCG-aY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3QVMCG-aY
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>| They had 1 crash and then they abandoned the whole thing.
>| Why, is unclear to me.
>| Why did they stamp the Concorde down completely?
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>| w.
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> www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHoaYMsP9Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHoaYMsP9Q
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>Can't trust the bastards on the continent. Always had
>to fight 'em, the ing waps, frogs, krauts, dagos...
>You are a ing kraut, ain'tcha?
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never trust a metric guy! you are right, of course, from your
standpoint.
But IIRC the British pubs have changed to metric beer,
did they? What a cultural shame.
(OTOH a way to camouflage a rise in price and blame it on the krauts).
Regarding the Concorde I stick to Stan:
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>You are right - a mere crash can't explain anything it.
>Here is the real story:
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>Concorde (or Concord ? see Wkipedia :-) was started by the British but,
>at some point, became as much French as British. And the French, of
>course, insisted on having all the original designs and blueprints
>redone in SI units. Rather than complying, the Brits preferred to abort
>the whole thing.
Happy New Year!
w.
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