I read in sci.electronics.design that Keith Williams wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Wed, 15 Dec 2004:
Yes. Very cheap, snow leopards are. And very light.
? I've never seen mountains measured in yards in the US. Feet is the usual, though I have seen feet and meters.
The ounce (Acceptable in a former cat), along with the eland (England lost no good deer), the lynx (Girl with sexy beast), the ocelot (Weird alien cool cat) and a few others, is a member of the Crossword Menagerie, beasts only ever seen in cryptic crosswords, and a sign of desperation on the part of the setter.
Paul Burke
Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in feet in the UK, but yards in the USA? And why were horses' prices always quoted in guineas? Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more impressive unit of penile shortness?
Paul Burke
And why isn't Mega-meter (Mm) used more? It is a very useful unit in the modern world where we travel long distances.
USA is 5Mm from coast to coast, Paris-Beijing is 10Mm, my country is 1.6 Mm from north to south, the equator is exactly 40Mm long, etc..
I've always seen mountain heights and altitude listed in feet in left pondia.
In the US they're listed in $, often M$.
Why not "hands" like horses? ;-)
I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Thu, 16 Dec 2004:
Very few people these days would recognise 'U' as meaning 'acceptable'.
OTOH, no-one has yet mentioned the cause of pricking of thumbs.
I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Thu, 16 Dec 2004:
Are they? My one US-made map doesn't agree with you. The furlong, of course, is a unit of length very close to 200 metres.
Because the guinea is a much older unit of currency and was always a gold coin (AFAIK). The heights of horses are measured in hands, of course, a unit of approximately 100 mm.(;-)
Why not zoctometres?
I read in sci.electronics.design that John Woodgate wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Thu, 16 Dec 2004:
Because it's a typo for yoctometres.
By the thumbing of my prick Something wicked! Coming quick!
Paul Burke
Here in leftpondia yards are normally used for foot/swimming races (under about 1 mile/1500 km) and naval gunnery ranges AFAICT. Mountains and altitudes get feet. For most internatinal purposes, such as records, meters become supreme, even in the US.
A few obstreporous types measure automobile fuel consumption in acres, or more conveniently, picoacres. I have a machine that consumes between 15 and 20 picoacres.
I read in sci.electronics.design that CBFalconer wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Thu, 16 Dec 2004:
Clever: volume/distance = area.
Reminds me of specific piezoelectric sensitivity;
volts/meter divided by newtons/sq. meter = voltmeters/newton
Can't be right, because voltmeters weren't invented in Newton's time.
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14At work, I often go to lunch at this British pub down the street, and they have a bunch of stuff such as British coins in collages on the walls. Messes with my head when I try to make sense (or cents) of their old coin system. ;-)
The abbreviation for penny was "d" for reasons lost in the mists of time. There was the circular threepenny bit (3d), which when changed from silver to something cheaper became octagonal. And you missed off all the low value slang names, tanner (6d), bob (1s), quid (£1). Peter
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Whew! And people have the nerve to gripe about 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5280 feet to a mile... Well, apparently someone had a problem, because they changed it all in 1971. :-P (I never heard of a monkey - or a groat for that matter.)
Back on topic, ever use a coin for an electrode on the skin? Tingling sensation..
colored bills.
The new 20 and 50 dollar bills are a lot more colorful than tne 'old' ones that came out just a few years earlier. The peach colored paper looks more colorful than the old bleah paper. The 'holographic' 20 and
50 insignias look cool, too. [snip]
Since the $100 bills came out first, there was some confusion when the $20s came out. I recall paying for a $15 purchase with a new $20 and getting $85 in change. I didn't keep it, nor the $40 change for a $10 purchase later, but when I got change of $16 for a $14 dollar purchase, I kept it. Stupidity tax.
I read in sci.electronics.design that Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote (in ) about 'Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004:
4 farthings = 2 halfpennies = 1 penny 4 pence = 1 groat 6 pence = 1 sixpence 2 sixpences = 1 shilling 2 shillings = 1 florin 2.5 shillings = 1 half-crown 2 half-crowns = 1 crown 2 crowns = 1 half-sovereign 2 half-sovereigns = 1 sovereign 21 shillings = 1 guinea 50 sovereigns = 1 pony 500 sovereigns = 1 monkeyI don't see the problem.
Why? It wasn't any more complicated than US coinage. We've got pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, dollars (1,5,10,25,50,100). It was just a different series of numbers: (1/2,1,2,6,12,120,240). I left out a few, I guess there was a 3 and 24. Oh, and I forgot about guineas. OK, it was a bit more complicated than US coinage...
Where's the thruppeny bit? And, I gather, shilling=bob and sixpence=tanner. Also, a 2 bob bit was called never really called a florin, despite the word being on the 2 bob bit, right?
Now, was this the Brit system for money just on Tuesdays? ;)
Jon
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