Re: VIA CPU's

[Peter Nuttall <pnu@ukfsn.org>]

On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 8:01 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:16, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 6:07 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:31, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:34, Chris Wilcox wrote:
> > > > >>>On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:05, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > > >>>>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:21:57 +0200 (CEST)
> > > > >>>>Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > Well, to answer your question he mean a cooler costing 25 pounds and
> > > > another cooler costing 8 pounds.
> > >
> > > How can a cooler *cost* a unit of force? :-p
> >
> > pounds is the unit of british money.
>
> It was a joke.  Note the emoticon ":-p".  I may be American, but
> I'm not *that* ignorant.  Besides, isn't it Pounds Sterling?
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> Jefferson, LA USA
>
> "You ask us the same question every day, and we give you the
> same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will believe us..."
> U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter

yes it is pounds sterling and as jokes go that is right up there with the iraq 
dossiers (this is a ignorance test).

pete