Interrupting a rector/pastor in the middle of his or her sermon and correcting him or her would be an excellent way to set the cause of metrication back fifty years in that congregation, and make the interrupter look like a total jerk.
Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Abbat Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 08:25 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44180] Re: The speed of light On Sunday 29 March 2009 00:09:09 Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: > I think you would have been more effective if you had interrupted him > during his sermon and gave him the correct value. This way the whole > congregation would have heard you as well. He talks fast, and I can't interrupt him. I can't even join a conversation between two people who talk past me with no pauses. > What was his response to what you did tell and show him? Don't remember. I had to find several people and tell them various things, and I kept running around only to find each one in conversation with someone else. Pierre
