OFF: Snow, metric propaganda! :-)

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Thu Dec 4 13:02:31 EST 1997


On tor 4 dec 1997 09.32 -0500 "Benjamin Cash" <bcash at ESSC.PSU.EDU> wrote:
>>      If I may be brutally facist for a moment, the number of people
using
>> temperature measures to determine "Is it cold out?" far outweighs those
>> using them for anything else :)
>>      Do we not have computers?  Use them for converting the units :)
>
> Ah yes, but remember it is us hard working folks who are trying to find
out
> for you if it will be cold out that you will be confusing here...sort
> of defeating your own purpose eh you brutally fascist b at stard. :)

     Faw!  That's just the kind of thing I'd expect a meteorologist to
say.

> ...for anyone reading the flamethrowers for my last comment above Carl
and
> I have known each other a LONG time, he can take care of pummeling me
himself.
> :>

     Quite.  You show up in Boston and I'll assail you with Imperial
measurements ;)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/



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