Re: VIA CPU's
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:36, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> 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?
So in the UK force is measured in terms of lifting 'sterling' silver and
here in the US we use just cheap iron. :-) How upper crusty!
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
>
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