>>>It actually took me a minute to realize what Grady meant by "do a foot long floater every day"
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>I was trying to figure out *where* you could produce such an impressive measured example- but then I remembered the American plumbing standards that presumably are shared by the Canadians. ;-) The Brit/Antipodean example would be as twisted as their sense of humor.
But would the OZ version twist in the opposite direction ... ?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
