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Criticised with class!
You know, to a lot of young people (read under 21 yo) driving around
my neighbourhood, I must be regarded as a "boring old fart" if I count the amount of derision directed towards me because I insist on driving within the speed limit. The derision comes generally in the form of an extended digit finger or a yelled expletive. (ho hum!) It is with some refreshment to read some criticism, albeit not to me, but my country, that comes with flair, panache and intelligence. Bravo! to my fellow Pom, who penned these delightful slurs. PS: Please insult us anytime, it's makes enjoyable reading! http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox...to&PhotoID=457 http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox...to&PhotoID=458 http://groups.msn.com/Stamps/shoebox...to&PhotoID=459 |
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An afterthought.........
I must challenge his quote "Responsible Philatelic Authority" I think there are six persons on the board, represented by input from one real philatelist. The rest come as "artists" (loosely coined) managers and other IMHO "non essentials" |
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How strange - they were the very stamps that got my (then) 7 year old
daughter into the hobby. She wanted to collect cartoons but was disappointed that there were nothing but Disneys to be had. (Has any country ever issued a set of Bill Tidy cartoons?) I do agree with the sentiments of the writer, though. This metric stuff will be the death of world commerce. Bring back the firkin, troy ounces, avoidupoids (how the hell do you pronounce that) and let me continue to amaze my friends by telling them repeatedly that there are 63,360 inches to the mile. While we're at it, let's bring back the horse & buggy and public floggings (always popular on the waterfront in Sydney). Having recently moved to the USA from New Zealand, I'm actually having a hell of a time with American measures. The pint is 4 ounces short of the real thing and how you are supposed to add together distances, I will never fathom. Quick - before I count to 3 - what is 1'7 3/64" times 7 plus 9'11 7/32"? -- Cheers - John Mycroft coryton_at_cobbsmill_dot_com |
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You had me scrambling for the Google Dictionary
Firkin? (thinks he: You have to be joking) Hmmm, foiled again, a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons Spoiler One kg of feathers weights the same as one kg of gold. But there are two different pound measures the avoidupois and the troy system. 1 pound avoidupois = 16 ounces avoidupois = 7000 Grains 1 pound troy = 12 ounces troy = 5760 Grains The feathers are 1260 heavier. |
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I always thought the Australia "metric" stamps were clever and a lot
more pertinent than some of the junk that has passed for commemorative stamps in recent years. I always thought the US should have adopted the metric system, but its advocate was President Ford. When he lost the 1976 election, the issue has been "too hot to handle." -- To e-mail me get rid of the cats and dogs. |
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Welcome to the USA John. ( Just in case no one has offered the greetings.)
Whats another Kiwi or two, or Oz for that matter. However some others I do not send the welcome message. Just a point of interest: Where can one enter a tunnel and possibly meet a train comming from the other direction? Not enough room for both so guess who has the privelege to back up! Another tunnel one has to wait a few minutes so traffic from the other direction can pass. And you left all tghe good things....:-) Ralphael, the OLD master |
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Almost as bad as the Quid and Tuppence wouldn't you say?
Ralphael, the OLD one |
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Pour participer à nos (d)ébats, "Rodney"
sussurait le Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:46:07 +0800 : You had me scrambling for the Google Dictionary Firkin? (thinks he: You have to be joking) Hmmm, foiled again, a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons Spoiler One kg of feathers weights the same as one kg of gold. But there are two different pound measures the avoidupois and the troy system. 1 pound avoidupois = 16 ounces avoidupois = 7000 Grains 1 pound troy = 12 ounces troy = 5760 Grains The feathers are 1260 heavier. Hello all, I do not understand why metric measures are such a problem for you ) 'Sacré anglais!' as we told here, always different (or maybe we are different? ) ) -- ThibauT Best regards from Vergèze, city of Perrier, France ) |
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Gday!
Ah yes, I do miss New Zealand's tunnels, especially the Homer which is cut through solid rock and has never had a proper road bed put in it. Try that in your low-slung Ferrari! Don't mock the English coinage of my youth - I still have trouble with the nickel being bigger than the dime and with the dime saying cryptically that it is worth "one dime". If you want truly stupid coins, go to Australia (What, them again!!) where the 1 dollar coin is half the size of the 2 dollar coin. I will not be drawn on the subject of the USA's paper money. Nothing that ugly has any right to be valuable. -- Cheers - John Mycroft coryton_at_cobbsmill_dot_com |
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If I may guess, the US will never adopt the metric system; the inhabitants
are too dull to learn it. Tony "AK47" wrote in message ... I always thought the Australia "metric" stamps were clever and a lot more pertinent than some of the junk that has passed for commemorative stamps in recent years. I always thought the US should have adopted the metric system, but its advocate was President Ford. When he lost the 1976 election, the issue has been "too hot to handle." -- To e-mail me get rid of the cats and dogs. |
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