Re: imperial (driving?) AFNAC guys'n'gals...

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> Back to jousting - In those times knights made up less than 1% of the
> population so I cant see that their jousting practices would have had any
> effect on the side of the road that the general population used.

but  the small highly visible portion of the population always sets the standard
and generates trends.  Even if only .01% of the population were actively involved
in jousting, the rest would imitate and follow suit (did I mangle a metaphor yet?)

> It matches with water freezing at 32 degrees, 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a
> yard,

Only in the US do we still use such archaic methods of reckoning.  I think it's
out of fear of a world government or some such xenophobic paranoia.

> 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound.

and that went out in '69...

I know, I know, you're joking.  And good at it, too.


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