Yes, and German-speaking too. Kilopascal would love that!! Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wizard of OS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:15 PM Subject: [USMA:22664] RE: Metric Pub | one thing to the nazi, Hitler had the cure for the common code, if he would | have taken UK it we be metric and right-side driving now! | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:21 PM | Subject: [USMA:22663] RE: Metric Pub | | | > Only too bad that here metric is part and parcel of a horrific | > Nazi/Bolshevik society. I read somewhere, some years ago, that a US | edition | > of 1984 was ifp. In 1984 Britain was Imperial before the 'Revolution' but | > the party of Ingsoc metricated after it came to power. In 1984 the party | was | > replacing the English language with Newspeak. | > And 1984 begins with what is now ISO 8601: "It was a clear, cold day and | the | > bells struck thirteen". (Translated from the Dutch edition). | > | > But the contemporary totalitarians, the Jacobins, did not support | > metrication. Let it be known that during the French Revolution | > guillotine-lovers like Marat were not in favour of metric at all. They | > hounded at least two people who were involved to their deaths and | threatened | > Delambe and Mechain with the guillotine and the lamp-post. In Saint-Denis | a | > mob of hysterical Jacobins screamed that Delambre should be strung up 'a | la | > lanterne, a la lanterne!', as they thought he was a Royalist, Austrian, | > British spie. Lavoisier was guillotined, and Condorcet died in jail before | > he could be guillotined. | > | > Han | > | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "David Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Sent: Friday, 2002-10-11 20:01 | > Subject: [USMA:22627] RE: Metric Pub | > | > | > Here's the part about pints & litres from Orwell's 1984: | > | > On the opposite side of the alley there was a dingy little pub whose | windows | > appeared to be frosted over but in reality were merely coated with | > dust.............. | > | > <snip> | > | > | |
