English units of measure (and a touch of Brit lit)

[earendil_fr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin"
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> > Carol wrote:
> > 
> > > But I hope that Britain is content with 100 pence to the pound
> and doesn't convert to the Euro. Hold on to your money! And your
> history, your literature, and your language. It would be sad, very
> sad, if they passed into the keeping of the former colonies.
> > 
> David:
> > What, exactly, is the threat to our history, language, and 
> > literature?  Hollywood?
> > 
> > > Carol, who fears that Europe, and especially France, is falling 
> into another Dark Age
> > 
> David:
> > Goodness me!  How?

> Dungrollin:
> You're a brave man, I didn't dare ask for fear of the answer.  But 
> now that you have, I'll admit to being intrigued. And wondering what 
> it is that France has done wrong...

Earendil:
I suppose Carol is refering to the French voting "no" to the European
Constitution last sunday by referendum (and if you want my opinion as
a French citizen, if the politics wanted us to vote "yes" all they had
to do was to ask us to vote "no"... French people tend to have this
innate sense of contestation ;-)


Earendil.