-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Noller wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> 2010/4/30 Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]>: >>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> 2010/4/30 Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]>: >>>>>> Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> writes: >>>>>>> Consider this a plaintitive -1 to any sort of rule-or-decision based >>>>>>> on committee. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd much rather a 2x4 to the forehead. >>>>>> Oops, sorry but what does "a 2x4 to the forehead" mean? >>>>>> (and "plaintitive" by the way?) >>>>> The former means being hit by a board and by the latter, he probably >>>>> means "plaintive" meaning melancholy. >>>>> >>>> Does it only work for english speaking non-metric system users? (2x4 >>>> is probably something imperial) >>> Yes, that's a 5,04 by 10,08 for you. :) >> Of course "2 by 4" is just the name. The actual measurements of such a >> piece of lumber in the store are about 1.75 by 3.75 inch. :-) >> > > We americans round up! (all the time)
Lumber is, oddly, named for its "wet size" (when cut), rather than "dry size" (when you buy it at the lumber yard after it dries). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvcYOwACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5SAgCdHnPJZ+UqTgjcTmW21iphpO1Y BQ8An07mX/cy3opSpNyt0FE2jtVMtLIu =Qqq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
