On Thursday 2003 November 20 19:29, Bill Potts wrote: > I'll bet they're in the Palace protocols. Everything is done with > precision. > > My source for the second comment is a documentary I saw on the state dinner > the Queen gave at Windsor Castle some years ago for Lech Walesa. Each place > setting was incredibly precise and someone went along each side of the > incredibly long table with a special measuring stick, ensuring that every > chair was precisely the same distance as all the others from the table.
If you haven't already seen it, the story is at http://news.independent.co.uk/ uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=465448. The printed version actually had a photo of someone doing exactly what Bill described above. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk
