Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BED824.0E4C9F10 Content-Type: text/plain For those who still use a measuring system coming from the Middle Age :-), an inch is about 25,4 mm. Oh, come now! The metric system is responsible more than anything for the decline of civilization since the Napoleonic Era. If we resurrect the firkin, rood, and fortnight and dump those silly metric measures peace and prosperity would spread across the world and every photographer could afford Leica lenses! - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BED824.0E4C9F10 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.0.1460.9"> <TITLE>RE: [Leica] A4, etc</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>For those who still use a measuring system coming = from the Middle</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Age :-), an inch is about 25,4 mm.</FONT> </P> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Oh, come now! The metric system is responsible = more than anything for the decline of civilization since the Napoleonic = Era. If we resurrect the firkin, rood, and fortnight and dump = those silly metric measures peace and prosperity would spread across = the world and every photographer could afford Leica lenses!</FONT></P> </BODY> </HTML> - ------ =_NextPart_001_01BED824.0E4C9F10--