On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Chuck Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:
Taking the above for example, what happens to a kid's mind when they find > out a meter is a stick in a special room in Paris? Something snaps and > never > really quite goes back in place... "Frenchmen aren't like you or me, They do things very differently. They won't say 'yards', they call them 'metres', And they're the *most peculiar* eaters ..." Roald Dahl, "The Toad and the Snail" -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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