Conrad,

Regarding your statement of February 15th @ 5.20 p.m.

"Common Weights & Measures are unbelievably stupid. I have measured Mount Everest with the Napoleon Emperor's Republic of Europe metre, and it's exactly 8850 metre."

Gotcha.

You did not say you measured Mount Everest in:

fathoms
ells
yards
gunter scales
statute cubits
feet (together with inch, the basis of all Planet Earth civilization)
spans
hands
nail-lengths
inches (together with foot, the basis of all Planet Earth civilization)
digits
barleycorns
lines
irons

Because you can triangulate all of those above.

Neither did you say you measured farmland using metre. Because you can fake that.

Neither did you say you built a house using metre. Because you can fake that.

Neither did you say you built a road using metre. Because you can fake that.

What you said was that you measured Mount Everest using metre. And you can't fake that. So you just lied instead.

If you ever tried to measure Mount Everest with metre or decametre or hectometre or kilometre, you would have to do it with:

1.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 metre
or
1.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 decametre
or
1.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 hectometre
or
1.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 kilometre

Can't be done.

If you ever really do want to measure Mount Everest, see site:

http://www.weights-and-measures.com

TIP OF THE DAY

Folks are on Planet Earth for only a few years. Don't waste a minute of that time by cooking up petty little projects that are supposed to deceive others.

No explanation what your 1.333 stuff is about, again.
What the $#@# is wrong with you ?

Ralf

To put it mildly, the sad man has several screws loose in his head. I could put it a lot stronger, but my message would probably be removed.

Don't stop posting, Xcole. Your wierd and wacky posts (what do you take when you do them?) really crack me up ,as I'm sure they do to many other people too.

Re: "has a few screws loose..."

May I point out that the official BBC-approved phrase for this is now: "a few cents short of a euro" [I actually heard this in a (yet another very politically correct) recent BBC radio play]