The pint was redefined as the volume of 7 straight bananas in a vacuum exactly 144 furlongs north-east of Brussels.
The mile per hour was redefined as the average rate at which Nigel Farage can snort olives from his nose while standing atop a minaret. B > On 19 Sep 2014, at 18:23, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > P.J. Alling wrote: > >> Then they made an exception. I remember when Britain went Metric there >> was worry that the traditional pint would no longer be available. The >> regulations seemed to require it's demise. > > I'm pretty sure that was an urban legend (or as best, an unwarranted > fear voiced at the time). There were a lot of similar myths in > circulation when the EU started to campaign for more conformity > between member nations. There was one totally false rumour that > computer keyboards in Spain would no longer be allowed to have a tilde > key. CE standards do apply to how accurate you are about selling a > "pint", but don't affect what unit of measure you use. British road > signs are still in miles and miles per hour. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
