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> > >
