Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
>> Might you not have that a bit backwards?
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> Nope. Given the choice of "Americans" or "Brits" answer these questions.
>
> 1: Frankenstein's Monster comes to town and someone yells, "Lynch it, bring
> your pitchforks and torches!" Who shoes up with pitchforks and rather chilly
> electronic devices?
>
> 2: Which would wonder why their car is dead because they put oil into the
> intake not under the hood?
>
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> 1: Brits. Torches are a medieval light source while flashlights are a modern
> one. One can't exactly set Frankenstein's Monster alight with most unmodified
> consumer grade flashlights. A torch, however, will do quite nicely.
>
> 2: Brits. One puts gasoline into one's car. Gasoline is distilled from
> petroleum (aka, oil). The short form of gasoline is gas not petrol, which is
> the short form of petroleum. Putting oil in one's gas tank would be rather
> nasty.
>
I can agree about differences in English. I once had a Brit asked me,
"Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?" I of course had
no answer. Throw some tucker on the barbie?
That however is beside the point. We were discussing measuring systems.
Mr. Johnson complained about the Brit's changing the gallon. I
suggested that it was not the British who changed things.
Joe
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