On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:13:03 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote:


Uhm, aren't you hailing from the land of feet, Fahrenheit, inch Hg.,
"point" and other pecularities?

Uhm, what do you think, we have two measures of feet, degrees, inches?
Not for a couple centuries.

(Well, we have two measures of degrees, but only because some mindless
Frenchman thought it would help to run the world by the boiling and
freezing points of water. Here in Fahrenheit-land, the world is run by
the tolerances of the human body. Much more civilized. Who cares a fig
about what water thinks?)



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