Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Once I have sold my car, and the buyer was a police officer... and I have
> crossed the zeros. He almost arrested meg cheating with the contract, had to
> explain that I do this to make difference in between 'oh' and 'zero' 

Of course you know that there aren't actually many policeman jokes out there.
That's because most of what people interpret as policeman jokes are factual
accounts of real occurrences, romanced a little bit.

Several people insist that dates not be written in ISO format (
YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS ) because it is 'confusing' (not to mention sortable, as in
file names etc.) and that 0 should not be crossed out. Many are engineers, and
not the sanitation kind.

When I wrote about the mob noticing that someone is trying to change something,
I had such things in mind.

Meanwhile, the US is inching its way towards the ANSI mandated metric system,
but Canada leads, up to a point. I saw a garage entry in .ca that told the
maximum vehicle height in ft, in. Canada is metric and so are most drivers and
cars ... I wonder if the insurance would pay in case the driver's mental
cm->ft,in conversion would be slightly off in the undesirable direction, or the
calculator battery low ... would be interesting to see a transcript of the
relevant court proceedings eventually, I guess.

Peter


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