At 22:37 11/26/2001 -0800, Bill Potts wrote:
Jim Elwell wrote:
The Digestive appears to be a type of cookie. Can one of our English
members tell me what Digestive means to English citizens? Sounds like a
medicine to me.
Digestives are British crackers found in grocery stores in the cookies and
You just have to differentiate between the calendar week,
and the work week.
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From: Adam Baranski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: November 26, 2001 18:52
Subject: [USMA:16402] Re: When does SI/ISO calendar starts?
It seems most
Although I'm not British, I am of British ancestry.
A digestive is simply a plain type of cookie (or biscuit as
they would say in the UK), usually taken with a cup
of tea. Sometimes they are plain and other times
they are coated on one side with chocolate. Reminds
me of visiting my granny.
Stephen Gallagher wrote:
P.S. There is no such thing as an English citizen.
People from the UK are British citizens (not British
Subjects, by the way), as are people from Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland.
You're both right and wrong.
Regarding legal status, it's British citizen. However,
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From: brianr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: rec.travel.usa-canada
Sent: November 26, 2001 14:15
Subject: Re: 80-cents-a-gallon gas
Scaleman wrote:
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I was listening to a sports radio station, this morning, in NYC.
The
host of
Are you asking Scaleman or are you asking us?
Scaleman's message wasn't to this list server.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Stephen C. Gallagher
Sent: Tuesday, November
In unix OS, we schedule the jobs to be run on
different days.
Some jobs are run 7 days a week and some others only 5
days.
The day starts with Sunday, but luckily the number
given for
it is '0' and
Monday is 1
,Tuesday is 2
,Wednesday is 3
,Thursday is 4
,Friay is 5
,Saturday is 6.
So our
The decimal currency (1$ = 100 cents) was introduced
in the US almost 220 years ago. But the stock
exchange switched to decimal units only in the year
2001.
What prompted this change, is it to
1. adjust with the global situation
2. competition from European exchanges
3. based on an
This is a 7-based issue, not 10-based. Therefore, off topic.
D.
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: November 26, 2001 14:14
Subject: [USMA:16388] Re: When does SI/ISO calendar starts?
2001-11-26
The reason the
Regarding Han's quote:
Imperialists could claim: As Jesus did not use metric, the world should not
use metric.
I've heard this variation:
If God had wanted us to use the metric system, there would have been 10
disciples (instead of 12).
to which I reply:
If God had wanted us to use Ye Olde
I mentioned English citizen only in an informal sense. I probably meant
someone who has lived or lives in England, as I do not know if
digestive is used in a similar fashion in all of the British empire
(i.e., Scotland, Wales, ). (If I am using British empire improperly
as a synonym for
When one becomes a Canadian citizen, the oath is:
I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will
faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:57:46 -0800, Harry Wyeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Digestives are British crackers found in grocery stores in the cookies and
crackers section, or at least they were when I was in the UK about ten
years ago. They are often round, like Ritz crackers, and wrapped in stacks
Only a guess, but I bet it has a lot to do computerization of the stock
markets. It's much easier to enter a decimal stock price than a fractional
on a keyboard. It's also probably much easier to write database code for
decimal numbers. Now there's an interesting thought. If someone buys a
All a 'digestive' is and ever has been to me is a tasty biccy that you dip
in your tea!!
Regards,
Steve.
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From: Jim Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:22 AM
Subject:
There's been no such thing as the British Empire for over thirty years,
Jim!!
Regards,
Steve.
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From: Jim Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:59 PM
Subject: [USMA:16428] Re:
2001-11-27
But, I'll bet some people still think it exists. I have a feeling that
those who subscribe to the BWMA in some way, shape or form still feel a
strong nostalgia for the empire.
Metric and Europe are seen as forces that remind Britain that the empire is
dead. To counter these forces,
That's because the spelling should be bikky which is a variant of bicky.
Baron
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From: Jim Elwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November, 2001 12:57
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:16434] Dictionaries -- OFF TOPIC (was: More metric items)
At
Jim Elwell wrote:
Presumably biccy is slang for biscuit. It's not in my OED.
Is yours the SOED?
From the OED Online:
bicky, bikky
A diminutive or affectedly childish form of BISCUIT.
1930 R. BLAKER Medal without Bar iv. 303 Sammy..said there was some
breakfast. 'Only ''bikkies'' again,
As a matter of fact it seems that God (which is the same for muslims, christians and
jews) told us several thousand years ago to GO Metric by giving the 10 commandments.
We still don't get it!
Adrian
PS: And if we put this information together with the Bill's quote from Deuteronomy we
get:
My OED is the second edition (OED2), published in 1989, on CD-ROM. It
includes the full text of the A-Z database, but does not include some
ancillary material.
It does have bicky and bikky.
Jim
At 12:08 PM 11/27/2001 -0800, Bill Potts wrote:
Jim Elwell wrote:
Presumably biccy is slang for
I wasn't aware you guy's were going to take this subject THIS
seriously
How about the phrase A' hm gannin' doon the road! as something to REALLY
get your teeth into??
Regards,
Steve.
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From: Jim Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric
Mine is the Concise Oxford Dictionary 10th Edition ISBN 0-19-860259-6 and
it does have both bicky and bikky.
Baron Carter
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From: Jim Elwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November, 2001 15:14
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:16439] RE:
Yes, it looks like the int'l feed. However since I wrote the message I looked closer
into it and the -fn channel has the int'l news most of the day and after prime time
while the main one has a lot less international news and very late at night.
I don't know exactly the hours when they switch
This is a pretty astute observations of the attitude of a significant
minority in Britain, John!!
Especially those of a right wing persuasion who tend to read papers like
'The Telegraph' and the Daily Mail' which are not exactly paragons of
balanced reporting!!
They like to imagine the
to be exact:
marathon is 42.195 km
How did they ever come up with such a number?
It's not a conversion of 26.2 miles (and why should it be) because that
would be 42.1648128 kilometeres not 42.195.
But 42.195 km does give 26.2 miles when converted and properly rounded
(unrounded value is
2001-11-27
I worked it backwards and it does come out close.
42.195/1.609344 = 26.218 757 5 miles. The miles were truncated after 1
decimal place. So, I guess in order to get it closer to the 42.195 figure,
you need to round it to 26.219, which is 42.195 3 km, or 300 mm too far.
But, I'm sure
After some poking around I think I might have this figured out. The
International Olympic Committee recognizes international sport federations
(SF). These SFs set the rules. The SF governing marathons, and other
track, field, and road races is the International Association of Athletics
2001-11-28
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER REGRETS ENGLAND'S ABSENCE IN
EUROZONEPrime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain stated that
England's current absence in the 12-member nation Euro zone is a "tragedy for
which we all will pay the price." The tenant of Downing Street said he regretted
Today our Consumers Association has made public the fact that our
hospitality industry is rounding up euro-prices to such an extent that they
rise by 10%. For instance a hotel raised its room charges from 63.xx euro
(converted from a round amount in guilders) to 70 euro! The Association has
Irish Times
Wednesday, 2001 November 28
Consumers will have to be vigilant
In the first part of a weekly series on the euro, Mary Minihan examines
fears that the imminent change will mean higher prices for shoppers
With just 34 days to go until the euro notes and coins are introduced, the
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