I would love it too, a single language for entire europe, a great idea ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:02 AM Subject: [USMA:22683] RE: Metric Pub
> 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> > | > > | > > | > | >
