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"Helmut Wabnig" <.... .-- .- -... -. .. --. @ .- --- -. DOT .- -> wrote in
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| On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:34:28 GMT, "Sorcerer"
| <Headmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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.
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| > 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 fucking waps, frogs, krauts, dagos...
| >You are a fucking 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?
HAHAHA!
Your recollection is hopeless. No way!
What a cultural shame.
| (OTOH a way to camouflage a rise in price and blame it on the krauts).
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It never happened, you are way out in left field.
| 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.
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| Happy New Year!
It's typical of a Weinerschnitzel like you to be hopelessly wrong.
The frogs built the seats, toilets and carpets; everything else was
British -- engines, electronics, undercart, wings, all that mattered.
The Panavia Tornado, (anglo-german-italian) which I also worked on,
was totally dependent on American technology. I had to go to Turin to
translate electronics for them, and the stupid krauts used to
draw gates inside boxes to waste time.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/7400.jpg/180px-7400.jpg
I'd like to see them draw all the gates in this box:
http://tinyurl.com/yl4rhu
Happy new perihelion. <shrug>
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