George W. Bush and Tony Blair are at a White House dinner.
One of the important guests walks over to them and asks what they are talking about.
"We are making up the plans for WW III", says Bush.
"Wow", says the guest.
"And what are the plans?"
"We are gonna kill 59 million Muslims and one dentist", Bush answers.
The guest looks a bit confused.
"One...dentist?", he asks. "Why? Why will you kill one dentist?"
Blair pats Bush on the shoulder and says: "What did I tell you? Nobody is gonna ask about the Muslims."

And I smirked about this on this board too.

The difference between "the French" and "Toast"?

You can make soldiers out of toast

Soldiers use a pace-stick when practicing their marching, so they don't trip over each other when marching together. The pace is fairly constant, although the stick looks like a pair of compasses which can extend to the required angle.

What will they do when metric laws mean that usage of any measurement other than metric is disallowed under penalty of law? Or will soldiers, as agents of the government in official positions, be immune?

Since the military works almost entirely in metric (apart from aircraft altitude), the pace measurements etc are in metric.

What on earth are you on about martin?

Soldiers pace by the metre rather than the yard?

Are there TSO's to monitor their every step?

I have it on the authority of my son who is an NCO, an instructor and a very active member of his school's Cadet Force that the army marches with a standard pace. It is not the TSO who checks the pace but the RSM.

The purpose of getting use to using a standard pase is to pace things out. I believe that in earlier years the standrd pace was 2'6". It is now 75cm.

In the U.S. Army, the military pace is defined to be exactly 30 inches (76.2 centimeters) for ordinary "quick time" marching and 36 inches (91.44 centimeters) for double time marching. The same definitions are generally used by marching bands.

O.T. but I found this school thingy quite fascinating.

I knew that imperial got back on the curriculum in the 90's but this item appears to be over 50% imperial!

Martin - you'll be please that they say to avoid using "m" for miles!

And then you'll be enraged that they teach inches as "in" or " !!

http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/mepres/book8/bk8_17.pdf