----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:44 PM Subject: Re: Etiquette
> > Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > > >> I think I�m slightly pro-Israel, but that may be just > >> an echo from my racist education, where islamists were > >> presented always as Evil in the History books [but > >> so were the Netherlands and the USA :-))))))] > > > >But we have always been using metric, so how can we be as evil as the > >USA? I demand you reconsider that statement instantly. ;o) > > > Not "always" - when you invaded Brazil around 1600, you > used some horrible system. Hmmm... Which makes me correlate: > every nation that does not use metric is evil and imperialistic! > Didn't the Nazi's use the metric system? <evin grin> Dan M.
