Who is Nigel Farage? Cheers Mike
Sent from my iPad > On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
