Pythagorean theorem: ...24 words.
Lord's prayer:...66
words.
Archimedes' Principle: ... 67 words.
Ten Commandments:
Just sent an email on EU bureaucracy and forgot to sign it.
Agnes Boddington - very watery Elloughton UK
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Whilst not wishing to rain on anyone's parade, I'm afraid I have to show
you this link
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
Lesley
who really does appreciate the funnies posted here, especially on a grey
rainy day like today.
On 26/08/2011 10:38, Agnes Boddington wrote:
On 8/26/11 7:44 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote:
Whilst not wishing to rain on anyone's parade, I'm afraid I have to show
you this link
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/cabbage.asp
Which makes me want to count the words in each of the named
documents, then find a federal order that
Hello Lesley,
I know, but still makes a good story.
It is also said, that when the EU comes out with a regulation say 500 words
long, the French will go
na and trim it down to 100. Whereas the English will add another 2000 to
the directive.
Agnes Boddington - Eloughton UK
Where I just got
Many, many, many years ago I worked for a government department, supposedly
as a personal assistant to a high-up civil servant. My first task was to
type up the written sentence he had given me and pass it back to him. He
went into a meeting while I waited in my office. He came back after about
