-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Might you not have that a bit backwards? > > Nope. Given the choice of "Americans" or "Brits" answer these questions. > > 1: Frankenstein's Monster comes to town and someone yells, "Lynch it, bring > your pitchforks and torches!" Who shoes up with pitchforks and rather chilly > electronic devices? > > 2: Which would wonder why their car is dead because they put oil into the > intake not under the hood? > > > > > 1: Brits. Torches are a medieval light source while flashlights are a modern > one. One can't exactly set Frankenstein's Monster alight with most unmodified > consumer grade flashlights. A torch, however, will do quite nicely. > > 2: Brits. One puts gasoline into one's car. Gasoline is distilled from > petroleum (aka, oil). The short form of gasoline is gas not petrol, which is > the short form of petroleum. Putting oil in one's gas tank would be rather > nasty. >
I can agree about differences in English. I once had a Brit asked me, "Why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?" I of course had no answer. Throw some tucker on the barbie? That however is beside the point. We were discussing measuring systems. Mr. Johnson complained about the Brit's changing the gallon. I suggested that it was not the British who changed things. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4h17iXBCVWpc5J4RAguEAJ0VwOf7uK/3QuTDMQTzWpvMnPSKDQCfdYOK Aa4wrFVZttMPeY9tpC91vQE= =4ALa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
