----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ukma discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2001-03-04 12:20 Subject: RE: [ukma] Fw: [USMA:11420] Re: From tonight's Sunderland Echo... ;-) > Perhaps the TSO who was so criticised for taking two policemen with him when > he visited Mr Thoburn knew something that the rest of us didn't? In other > words, never take anything you read in the newspapers at face value! > > Chris Howell > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, 2001-03-02 02:32 > Subject: [USMA:11420] Re: From tonight's Sunderland Echo... ;-) > > > > Thoburn and two other Imperialists paraded in the streets, wearing signs > > reading: "I am a criminal". > > Now Mr Thoburn really IS a criminal! > > I wonder whether that brawl had something to do with > > the Metric Martyrs, that he may have attacked people who were opposed to > > their campaign. > > > > Han > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "James J. Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 5:14 AM > > Subject: [USMA:11406] Re: From tonight's Sunderland Echo... ;-) > > > > > > How about that. Britain has soccer hooligans, and now they have Imperial > > [unit] hooligans! There's nothing better than having a tarnished > poster-boy > > on the opposition's side. Pro-metric people in Britain should seize upon > > this to cast the opposition as emotionally-driven, non-rational, > hopelessly > > backward-looking citizens. > > > > Jason
