[SC-Help] Re: Understanding SC's Reports

[Ant]

"Mike Easter" wrote:

> You guys need to get straightened out on your ponds.
>
> There are two.  The big pond and the little pond.
>
> I am on the right shore of the big pond.
>
> You guys over there on the right shores of the little pond seem to
> imagine that there is only one pond, and that the only people on the
> other side of the little pond you know about are the ones on the left
> shore of the little pond.

I include right big-pondians in my little-pondian perspective. If you
were talking with the Aussies or Chinese rather than Europeans, your
pondian-ness would be big!

> That is a little bit like imagining that the earth is flat or something.
> We call it the Pacific Rim.

It's probably more to do with the convention in (flat) world maps of
depicting the americas on the left, and the rest on the right.

> OTOH -- I have no defense for the inane methods of sizing paper in the
> US.  Why they don't adopt the logical standards of ISO 216 I have no
> idea.  Just for the record, I believe we should use ISO 8601 for time
> standards and ISO 216 for paper standards.
>
> Some of you Rightpondians are a little confused about some of those
> issues as well.

Are we? Well, if you mean we are supposed to have 'gone metric' and
yet our road signs are still in miles and our beer is served in pints
then perhaps we are. Personally, I prefer feet and inches to metres
and centimetres -- they are a more natural measure.

I worked for 13 years in the UK arm of a US-based company, and got
used to US paper sizes as being normal. I found it strange going back
to UK A4 size when I left.

> There are a few lurking non-participants in these 'topic drifts' who
> think the subject should be changed.
>
> Bah humbug.  We don't need no steenkin' subject badges.

Let 'em flame!