Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.

[Roger Johansson]

Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com> wrote:

John Woodgate wrote:

Sorry, I can only accept four $125 bills, or three Ł133.33 bills.

Discount eh?

You have to realize that John Woodgate is so old that when he learned the
multiplication table it was still very new, and still contained some
faulty results. The multiplication tables have been debugged since then.


--
Roger J.

 

[Paul Burke]

Roger Johansson wrote:

You have to realize that John Woodgate is so old that when he
learned the
multiplication table it was still very new, and still contained some
faulty results. The multiplication tables have been debugged since then.

John, like myself, was taught the tables in an age when you had to be
prepared to change base several times within a single problem. 12d = 1s,
20s = Ł1, 21s = 1 guinea. A Ł133/6/8d note would not have been
surprising back then.

Paul Burke

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:53:06 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com> wrote
(in <32b154F3k64i0U1@individual.net&gt about 'Circuit that produces a
tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Wed, 15 Dec 2004:
Roger Johansson wrote:
You have to realize that John Woodgate is so old that when he
learned the
multiplication table it was still very new, and still contained some
faulty results. The multiplication tables have been debugged since
then.

John, like myself, was taught the tables in an age when you had to be
prepared to change base several times within a single problem. 12d = 1s,
20s = Ł1, 21s = 1 guinea. A Ł133/6/8d note would not have been
surprising back then.

We also had to convert from Ł133/6/8 to Ł133.33 *mentally* and Ł24.737
to Ł24/14/8 and three farthings as well. Mental calculation in base 960.

I've heard that in England, they spend a semester learning to make change,
but weights and measures are done in a day (metric). In the US, it's the
other way around.

Well, before they decimalized the pound.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Paul Burke]

John Woodgate wrote:

Ten ounces to the pound?

Yes. Very cheap, snow leopards are. And very light.

The ounce (Acceptable in a former cat), along with the eland (England
lost no good deer), the lynx (Girl with sexy beast), the ocelot (Weird
alien cool cat) and a few others, is a member of the Crossword
Menagerie, beasts only ever seen in cryptic crosswords, and a sign of
desperation on the part of the setter.

Paul Burke

 

[Paul Burke]

John Woodgate wrote:

I don't know whether the kids are taught hexadecimal or '16 ounces = 1
pound'.

When it's not 14. Remember the table on the back of school exercise
books that began "2 glasses - one noggin"? Fortunately nobody ever asked
me to convert the Yorkshire Woollen Ell to centimetres.

Paul Burke

 

[Paul Burke]

Keith Williams wrote:

system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight

Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA? And why were horses' prices always
quoted in guineas? Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Paul Burke

 

[Roger Johansson]

Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com> wrote:

Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit

And why isn't Mega-meter (Mm) used more?
It is a very useful unit in the modern world where we travel long
distances.

USA is 5Mm from coast to coast, Paris-Beijing is 10Mm, my country is 1.6
Mm from north to south, the equator is exactly 40Mm long, etc..


--
Roger J.

 

[Paul Burke]

John Woodgate wrote:

OTOH, no-one has yet mentioned the cause of pricking of thumbs.

By the thumbing of my prick
Something wicked! Coming quick!

Paul Burke

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <32d0p3F3k7lcqU1@individual.net>, paul@scazon.com says...

Keith Williams wrote:
FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight


Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

I've always seen mountain heights and altitude listed in feet in left
pondia.

And why were horses' prices always quoted in guineas?

In the US they're listed in $, often M$.

Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Why not "hands" like horses? ;-)

--
Keith

 

[Alan Balmer]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:47:07 +0000, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com>
wrote:

Keith Williams wrote:
FSF[*] system.
[*] - Furlong Stone Fortnight


Good one! Why are mountains (well eminences anyway) always measured in
feet in the UK, but yards in the USA?

? I've never seen mountains measured in yards in the US. Feet is the
usual, though I have seen feet and meters.

And why were horses' prices always
quoted in guineas? Why haven't men cottoned on to millimetres as a more
impressive unit of penile shortness?

Paul Burke

--
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
removebalmerconsultingthis@att.net

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 19:51:06 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

4 farthings = 2 halfpennies = 1 penny
4 pence = 1 groat
6 pence = 1 sixpence
2 sixpences = 1 shilling
2 shillings = 1 florin
2.5 shillings = 1 half-crown
2 half-crowns = 1 crown
2 crowns = 1 half-sovereign
2 half-sovereigns = 1 sovereign
21 shillings = 1 guinea
50 sovereigns = 1 pony
500 sovereigns = 1 monkey

Where's the thruppeny bit? And, I gather, shilling=bob and sixpence=tanner.
Also, a 2 bob bit was called never really called a florin, despite the word
being on the 2 bob bit, right?

Now, was this the Brit system for money just on Tuesdays?

Jon

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Jonathan Kirwan" <jkirwan@easystreet.com> wrote in message
news:75a9s09qer95gh7dnr1rjm5s0p0aitgtrp@4ax.com...

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:42:45 -0800, Mike Harding
mike_harding@nixspam.fastmail.fm> wrote:
[snip]

And in the US, we don't even have Canada's pretty and different
colored bills.

The new 20 and 50 dollar bills are a lot more colorful than tne 'old'
ones that came out just a few years earlier. The peach colored paper
looks more colorful than the old bleah paper. The 'holographic' 20 and
50 insignias look cool, too.

[snip]


> Jon

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <rich@example.net>
wrote (in <pan.2004.12.19.07.57.45.980315@example.net&gt about 'Circuit
that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.', on Sun, 19 Dec
2004:

And I'm a iggorunt Merkin!

Yes, but you CAN do arithmetic. Just don't let it go to your head. (;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:45:42 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

So whatever in the world 24 shillings is, is what it is.

A guinea and three, yes? Or a pound and a crown less one. Or four times a
crown and one (which I'll just call a guinea-crown.) Or ...



Jon