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

[anon]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Ant wrote:
>> The holy hand-grenade of "antioch" wrote:
>>
>>> "Mike Easter" wrote:
>>>> I don't understand 'her indoors'
>>>
>>> Are you from the other side of the pond?
>>
>> Mike is from Leftpondia, whereas U and I are Rightpondians.
>
> 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.
>
> That is a little bit like imagining that the earth is flat or something.
> We call it the Pacific Rim.
>
>
> 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.
>

The US paper sizes are about as sensible as the world wide (non) standard 
railroad gauge - changing trains at national borders does not make sense. 
Someone, way back then, must have had a huge piece of paper and proceeded to 
cut it in half, then that in half  - etc. until we got the 8-1/2x11 inches 
letter size and 8-1/2 x 14 inches legal size. You guys just started with a 
different 'huge' size to get your 8.3x11.7 inch A4 and 7.2x10.5 executive 
sizes. There is really no logic to ANY paper size. At least one of the RR 
gauges started with the wagon wheel/chariot wheel gauges - but who can say 
how logical THOSE were.

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> Some of you Rightpondians are a little confused about some of those
> issues as well.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>