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29 Jul 2024 04:25:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Hell has officially frozen over  
From: nemesis
Date: 21 Jul 2013 18:35:01
Message: <web.51ec61a2e18078f7c2fb94250@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > three seventy-seconds of one inch
>
> I think that at least *some* Americans realize how ridiculous the
> imperial measurement system is. It's a petty that resistance to change
> is such a huge psychological phenomenon that it's not going to change
> any time soon.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

I actually had a laugh at the "three seventy" vs the usual "seventy three".  or
did he mean "3 x seventy-seconds"?

then again, I'm used to it from Sherlock Holmes books :)


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