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Re: in the USA - The Southern Part -
01-23-2006
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:17:23 -0000, "Simon Verona" <nomail (AT) nomail (DOT) zzz wrote: snip The problem with metricism is the EU (European Union), we are all happy with the original status-quo - everything in the UK was dual marked in imperial and metric. It's much easier to spend several hundred hours in session making individual laws about every single item (fuel should be sold in litres not gallons, which it is.. Milk in litres, food in grammes/kg rather than lb/oz etc) than it is to simply declare what the metric scales are for all measurements and simply pass a single law saying that they should be applied to everything. What happend to the poor bloody green-grocer in Norfolk (??? IIRC) being prosecuted for selling bananas by the "each" instead of by the Kg??? Anyways, thats enough cinicism on politics for one day!  Regards Simon "Luke Webber" <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au> wrote in message news:43d438a7$1 (AT) news (DOT) melbourne.pipenetworks.com... Bruce Nichol wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:07:17 +1100, Luke Webber <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au wrote: Imagine going through the pain of metric conversion only to go part way and get stuck in midstream. Man, your politicians must be total invertebrates. Luke, oh Luke...... And the current lot are Labour.... the locals'll rip up your card.... The current lot just call themselves Labour, rather like our own opposition (though ours can't even spell it correctly). What beats me about these nongs is that they can suddenly grow a spine when it comes to declaring an illegal war, but lack the backbone to force the full metric package down the electorate's collective throats. And I don't own a card. I hate them all equally. Well, almost equally. Howard, Bush and Blair have to take more blame because they're in power. (No smiley) Luke Regards, Bruce Nichol Talon Computer Services ALBURY NSW Australia http://www.taloncs.com.au If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.... |
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:12:02 -0000, "Simon Verona" <nomail (AT) nomail (DOT) zzz wrote: Bruce The speeding fine system is almost identical here in the uk.. You don't get stopped at all, but get a nice letter in the post saying that your vehicle was spotted going through a camera at a certain speed with a fine to pay if you aer happy. You also get 3 points endorsed on your licence for this, a total of 12 will almost certainly mean you losing your licence for a period of time.. Lose it twice and you have to retake your test. There are 2 things that always annoy me about this. 1. The "5th amendment" - as the Americans call it... In almost all western law, you do not have to answer a question that may incriminate yourself. Also, you are deemed innocent until proven guilty. Not, it would appear for speed cameras... Actually, it seems anything to do with "fining" drivers/owners is exempted from the "self incrimination" rules.... Good revenue.... Classic case in point: Random Breath Testing. A growth industry if ever there was one - not that I'm advocating driving whilst intoxicated, but the government's overall strategy that "we're not catching enough of them by waiting for them to give us a reason to pull them over" seems a tad perverse. Incriminate thyself, driver. |
http://www.joke-archives.com/drinkin...ateddecoy.html
Patrick, <;=)
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:11:03 GMT, Art <artmartz (AT) triad (DOT) rr.com> wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:05:49 -0800, dawn wrote: (latimerp) wrote: http://www.thebigshow.com/picsnsuch/...ankeetips.html I'm a yankee who spent two years in Durham, North Carolina. I can add three from my own experience. 1) Call ahead for fast food if you want to be able to drive through 2) Realize that the Civil War wasn't so long ago Being a long-time transplanted yankee living in Greensboro and working in Charlotte, there's enough around here that don't acknowledge that the south ever lost the "big one"! Art Well, that's one better than Japanese educators re WWII...... at least it's acknowledged the Confederates were "in" a "big one".... Lost would imply giving up. Resting is a better word. |
Patrick , <:=)
P.S. I could give you the story, but tht would be way OT.
(of course considering this thread)
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Some parts are exaggerated, but I've never personally witnessed a woman change a tire. It just *ain't done* like that down here.. |
be as tough as the men but as sexy as those Southeastern belles. Changing a
tire is no big deal to them, and they know more about football than most
Yankee men.
True story. I have a woman friend who's a coach at a small college near
Lubbock. She's very athletic and strong, and loves good old manual labor.
One day she was returning from a trip to Amarillo when she spotted a
well-dressed man on the side of the road with a flat tire. She was dressed in
typical coaching sweats, so she stopped and offered to change the guy's tire
so he wouldn't get his nice suit dirty.
The guy turned out to be Bobby Knight, who had recently been hired to coach
basketball at Texas Tech, and was returning from a recruiting trip. He
graciously thanked her, but said there was no way he could let her change his
tire. Not only had he already called AAA, but he was certain somebody would
recognize him, and he didn't want the PR disaster of having it reported that
he had to have a girl change his flat tire.
They had a good laugh at that, along with a brief conversation about coaching
basketball, and then my friend went on her way.
---
Rod
Email address altered to deter spam.
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:21:26 -0500, "(latimerp)" <"(latimerp)"@comcast.net wrote: Some parts are exaggerated, but I've never personally witnessed a woman change a tire. It just *ain't done* like that down here.. The Southeastern gals may be that genteel, but in the Southwest, the women can be as tough as the men but as sexy as those Southeastern belles. Changing a tire is no big deal to them, and they know more about football than most Yankee men. |
Rod, I was talking about the men. The women we often live in awe
(and fear) of. Here is another Southern link.
http://richmondthenandnow.com/
If you see Foxo, material, that was my grandfather.
Patrick <;=)
P.S I like most of the Confederate stuff too. Richmond VA is
a strange but very interesting city.
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True story. I have a woman friend who's a coach at a small college near Lubbock. She's very athletic and strong, and loves good old manual labor. One day she was returning from a trip to Amarillo when she spotted a well-dressed man on the side of the road with a flat tire. She was dressed in typical coaching sweats, so she stopped and offered to change the guy's tire so he wouldn't get his nice suit dirty. The guy turned out to be Bobby Knight, who had recently been hired to coach basketball at Texas Tech, and was returning from a recruiting trip. He graciously thanked her, but said there was no way he could let her change his tire. Not only had he already called AAA, but he was certain somebody would recognize him, and he didn't want the PR disaster of having it reported that he had to have a girl change his flat tire. They had a good laugh at that, along with a brief conversation about coaching basketball, and then my friend went on her way. --- Rod Email address altered to deter spam. |
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