30 Jun
2006
30 Jun
'06
9:35 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Jun, 2006 at 07:01AM -0400, Dave Phillips spake thus:
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Hehee! This reminds me of playing isketch in the English-UK rooms.
There would always be 50% americans who would complain that people
didn't use proper words and always use $ for money.
I should have got the pounds thing though. It's not like we don't
have them. Some people have managed to resist metrification even
now. You can go and ask for 2lb of bacon (mmmm, 2lb of bacon) but
they can't advertise 2lb of bacon.
On Thu, 29 Jun, 2006 at 12:39PM -0400, Dave
Phillips spake thus:
It's a currency conversion joke (a poor one too). We use dollars for $$$
and pounds as a measure of weight. james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
I was born in the UK, and I think I'm missing the joke.
Now, where can I get 1 million pounds for free?
There's about a million pounds of something at the White House in
Washington DC...
Born in the USA,
Ergo: There's a million pounds of (descriptive
noun deleted) on Capitol
Hill.
I trod in a pile of deleted descriptive nouns the other day.
Ah, for the days before Babel, when all men spoke one
language. I think
it was a proto-BASIC...
I'm church of the latter-day Gnu, so I KNOW that the world has only
been around for 40 years or so, and everyone spoke Lisp.
James
Best,
dp