I also remember small distances being referred to by a 'fag paper'. Meaning the thickness of a roll your own cigarette paper.
73 Steve 2009/8/23 Steve Rooke <[email protected]>: > I'm from the SE of England, Brighton and Ipswich, and this is the > measurement as I remember it from a very long time ago too Peter. > > Steve - G8KVD <- that dates me just a bit & ZL3TUV > > 2009/8/23 Peter Vince <[email protected]>: >> Maybe I was brought up in a more genteel part of West London, but the unit >> of measurement I was brought up with was a >> Gnat's Whisker. I don't think that was just my parents cleaning it up, as >> that expression seemed pretty common. Sometimes >> abbreviated to just "a gnat's", but it was definitely its whisker that was >> understood. >> >> Peter Vince (G8ZZR, London, England) -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD A man with one clock knows what time it is; A man with two clocks is never quite sure. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
