Dear Paul and All,
Yes, I'm sure that it has been done many times using many different names. I
based my Jadic parody on one based on a Burgeson ( Jeremy W. Burgeson), but
Smoot sounds nice too.
Independently, and some time earlier, some of my friends mocked me (and my
metric interests) in the mid 1970s by devising the patric system to parallel
the metric system that I was heavily involved in disseminating at that time.
The patric system seemed to be based on me personally, and it seemed that
the basis of all comparisons were vulgar fractions that had the most arcane
fractions possible - these usually included many prime numbers. For example
a friend, Barry, claimed that his height was 23/19ths of a patric, but that
his weight was only 13/17ths of a patric, and so on. I don't think that they
ever canvassed the issue of time units however.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
- United States Metric Association
ASM - Accredited Speaking Member
- National Speakers Association of Australia
Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers
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on 2002/02/03 08.26, Paul Trusten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Wasn't this done already, at MIT? The fellow's name was Smoot.
