-Caveat Lector-
I lived in Paris for six months - a lovely city only marred by the flood of
Parisians.
Hilary
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> From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] [[SC] Skeptic News - Monday #1]
> Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 10:57 AM
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Tatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > "ric carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > "The French are revolting again. This time it is over the location
> > > of the line of longitude from which all time zones are referenced."
> >
> > Mais oui -- the French really *are* revolting! It's not enough that
> > they have the standards for metric length and mass -- now they want
> > the standard for time as well? Donnez-moi une break, si-vous-plait!
>
> You are attempting to distract us with disinformation - what's your
> hidden agenda? Everyone knows that Greenwich is the standard point
> for LOCATION, not TIME - the time standard is a cesium clock at the
> NBS [Nat'l Bur. of Standards] in Washington DC. No, the French are
> merely attempting to establish dominion over the FACE OF THE PLANET
> and would only affect time indirectly, by shifting time-zone bounds.
>
> > I am reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's comment that the French are the
> > world's best second-raters...
>
> Precisely. Clever, nefarious, first-rate plotters would steal time
> itself, redefining our units of duration - wait, they tried to do
> that [on a macro scale] with the Revolutionary Calendar back around
> 1790. But although they diddled with weeks, months, and years, they
> neglected to strike at the root: the second. 1st-rate conspirators
> would redefine our time to match the standsrds of their home planet.
> What's the Zeta Reticulan equivalent of the second? We may find out
> soon. If the second is ever abandoned, the plot will be fulfilled.
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