Pat: That seems to be a variant of one that a number of people were attributing (wrongly) to John Cleese. It would seem to be from someone mimicking John Cleese's style. If you add Snopes to your Google search argument, you'll probably get the full run-down on it. I'm not sure that something like that is going to make any difference to the acceptance of metrication. I'll be happy, of course, if it does in fact make a positive difference. However, (1) I'm not holding my breath, and (2) I'm not sure how we'd measure its influence. Bill _____
Bill Potts W <http://wfpconsulting.com/> FP Consulting Roseville, CA <http://metric1.org/> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Naughtin Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 20:17 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:41842] The Queen of England Dear All, Many people send this message to me assuming that I will be interested in the metrication reference. About a year ago I might have received this message (as a joke) about once a month, but recently the frequency has increased and now I can receive this as often as four times in a day. I don't know what the change in frequency means, but when I searched Google for the phrase, "roundabouts and metrication" I got 9730 hits many of them from the USA. Maybe people are starting to be able to consider words like 'metric' and 'metrication' without instant recoil. A Message from the Queen
