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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:
| > 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEHoaYMsP9Q
Can't trust the bastards on the continent. Always had
to fight 'em, the fucking waps, frogs, krauts, dagos...
You are a fucking kraut, ain'tcha?
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