Re: OT google fun
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight But are there really three barley corns in an inch? Seems so: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history_length/page04.html -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT google fun
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:45, Burns MacDonald wrote: Sounds like something straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or should be. Which I might add, I am reading yet again. --Tom Wilson ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT google fun
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units. The engineers were obviously unimpressed. Finally one of the senior engineers raised his hand and asked him to express the speed in furlongs per fortnight. furlongs per fortnight is a standard way to of saying cut the crap -- Alma ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT google fun
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003, Net Llama! wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight One of the first programs I wrote in FORTRAN calculated that. That was in 1966 on a Bendix G-20 :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It's time to feed the hogs'' -- Unintended Consequences ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT google fun
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:31, Net Llama! wrote: http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Sounds like something straight out of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or should be. -- Burns MacDonald Ottawa Canada ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT google fun
Quoth Alma J Wetzker: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:31:02 -0400 (EDT) http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight The story goes that at NASA a management droid was briefing some senior engineers using a bewildering array of terms and units. The engineers were obviously unimpressed. Finally one of the senior engineers raised his hand and asked him to express the speed in furlongs per fortnight. furlongs per fortnight is a standard way to of saying cut the crap I've certainly never heard it used in this context, but it might certainly fit. Kurt -- Yes, but which self do you want to be? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
OT google fun
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