> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:41 PM > To: Marco Cimarosti > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SPAM: Re: [Way OT] Beer measurements (was: Re: > Handwritten EURO sign) > > > It's bad enough to have to have > two kinds of hardware already: having incompatible things > both labeled "1/4 inch" would be the facilis descensus Averno indeed.
There are three: Metric, regular Imperial with 1/32", 1/8" etc. and decimal Imperial with 0.1". > > -- > John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."
