For we've slaved away four years of our life and earned about three pound ten

[sovay]

I have a sore throat and a steadily climbing fever and just discovered I missed a documentary on whaling tonight. It had better re-air. Preferably at some point when I can focus on the screen. Today: not success. Tell me something historically weird.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

The guy the French sent to bring metrication to the fledgling US state was captured by pirates three times on the way and the metre, kilogram and explanation never made it, and so the US remains mired to this day in undecimal measurements.

I blame luddite time travellers.

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

^This. Made. My. Morning.

[sovay]

The guy the French sent to bring metrication to the fledgling US state was captured by pirates three times on the way and the metre, kilogram and explanation never made it, and so the US remains mired to this day in undecimal measurements.

That is magnificent, in an engineer-maddening kind of way.