Re: HVAC Is Gay {was: Re: Metric System Is Gay}

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT), Nosterill <fladgate@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Jul 4, 1:35 pm, UseNetO...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:40:08 +0100, "Alex W." <ing...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >"Smiler" <Smi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >news:%gebk.181343$Ek2.10687@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> You forgot the tanner!
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>> >Erm ... a cunning ploy to catch out those who hadn't bothered to read
the
>> >post?
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>> So? What about "the
tanner"?http://www.predecimal.com/predecimaldenominations.htm
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>> Sixpence?
>> Some of the issues of George II were designed by John Sigismund
>> Tanner, and the denomination was known as a tanner right up to
>> decimalisation.http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/sixd.html
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>> C. wondering   ...
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>There was a song when I was a lad - which was a long time ago.It was
>sung to the tune of "Rule Britannia" after the following fa****on:
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The cor****ation muck cart, Was full up to the brim
The driver fell in backwards, And found he couldn't swim
He sank right to the bottom,  just like a rolling stone
And these are the words he murmured, "There ain't no place like home".

They took him home in the muck cart, And laid him on his bed
He called his friends around him, And this is what he said

>Rule Britannia
>Two tanners make one bob
>Three make one and six (eighteen pence)
>And four make two bob.
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>That little mnemonic could come in handy one day - back in the last
>century.