2001-10-22 I went to a Catholic School and we were taught that it was "30 PIECES of Silver". I'm sure they thought no one would have a clue as to what a shekel was, so they "converted" it to pieces. I don't anyone has a clue as to what a piece is. I used to imagine it to be a silver coin.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2001-10-19 22:10 Subject: [USMA:15724] Re: Milk churn > Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA 15722: > > >This morning an item in 'The Age' , a Melbourne daily, read as follows: > > > >'BELFAST. Police arrested six people yesterday after discovering a > >60-kilogram bomb in a Catholic village near Omagh, scene of the deadliest > >attack in Northern Ireland's conflict. Police raided the home in > >Sixmilecross, eight kilometres west of Omagh, on Wednesday night and > >discovered the bomb hidden in a metal milk churn.' > > > >I thought you might like to check the journalist's conversion from miles to > >kilometres, and to mull on the matter of the resistance of names like > >'Sixmilecross' from any change to SI. > > > Never give it a moment's thought. Don't rewrite Tennyson's "Half a league, > half a league onward rode the six hundred" nor Judas's "thirty shekels of > silver". > > Joseph B.Reid > 17 Glebe Road West > Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071 >
