[Info-vax] [OT] Imperial versus Metric, was: Re: Mail reading/processing problem, UTF-8

[Paul Sture]

In article <j38lg5$oeh$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> On 2011-08-26, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> > In article <lbcki8-d9i.ln1 at Ubuntu.mike-r.com>, Henry Crun 
> > <mike at rechtman.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> To revert to English:
> >> I use checks quite a lot -- as in "check tyre pressure". But nobody will 
> >> accept 
> >> them as a means of payment. For that, I need cheques.
> >
> >    You can keep your cheques and kPa while I check my tires in PSI.  8-)
> >
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> It's that kind of thinking that allows NASA to create new craters on
> other planets... :-)
> 

If they had managed to get some microphones and recording equipment 
there first they could have had a free geological survey ;-)

-- 
Paul Sture