[SOC] Duh, I pressed the wrong button didn't I?.

[Chris Redding]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan <kf0z@n0rxd.ampr.org>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:10 PM
Subject: [SOC] Bombs Awaaaaaaayyy


Bush keeps coming to town to promote the career of some braindead
> Republican in our newly gerrymandered congressional district). I think
they
> were off to bomb some trailer park or something else no one would miss
(oops, sorry Chris)

[I'll put you down as a democrat then, Jan].

> but oddly, it seems that Americans are the final (and fanatical) users of
> the "English" system of weights and measures (but thankfully not their
late,
> unlamented monetary system!), and I can't find my calculator. 73 Jan KF0Z
#389
>
[Brits buy in metric, but (apart from the young) think in Imperial]
[Look Jan, it was simple:

Four farthings = one penny
Two hape'neys = one penny also
Three pennies = one thep'ny bit
six pennies (or two threp'ny bits) = one tanner
two tanners = one bob
twelve pennies = one bob
four threp'ny bits = one bob
One tanner and two threp'ny bits = one bob
two bob = two bob
a two bob bit and a tanner (or two threp'ny bits) = half a crown
two half crowns = five bob
five bob = one dollar (UK)
four half crowns = ten bob
two ten bobs, or eight half crowns, or ten two-bob bits = twenty bob, or
even 240 pennies = one
quid
one quid and one bob (or two tanners) = one guinea
20 quid = one score
100 quid = one ton
1000 quid = a grand

How could we have made it any simpler for you?.

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