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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?
> 
>     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?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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