Harry,
The reason UK did not use the Euro was that of pride. The pound means as
much to them as the Statue of Liberty means to the US. Imagine the uproar
if the Statue of Liberty was to be replaced with a giant UN flag!!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Wyeth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 7:12 PM
Subject: [USMA:23413] Recent postings
| There was a recent message regarding proper argumentation (I think that
is
| a word, not just a Bush-ism), commenting that use of capital letters and
| exclamation marks is not useful.
|
| Amen! I am a lawyer, and learned decades ago that the more often
| adjectives ("obviously", "clearly", and the like) are used in a legal
| brief, the weaker the real argument is likely to be. The same can be
said,
| in spades, about capital letters and excessive punctuation.
|
| Also, I was in Spain recently, and while shopping at a supermercado, I
| noticed that there were very few items packaged in oddball sizes (not
even
| 100 or 50 g). Cans of fruit and the like appeared to me to be the same
| sizes as are found in the US, but always in even sizes in terms of
content
| weight. The Euro is sure a nice thing, and I really can't understand why
| Britain has not come around to this. Neither can the Spanish people I
| spoke to. A British businessman I talked to told me that he believed
that
| it was just a matter of time, and that within five years the Euro will be
| the norm in England.
|
| HARRY WYETH
|
|
