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funny from the Rialto (fwd)

To: British Cars Digest <british-cars@autox.team.net>
Subject: funny from the Rialto (fwd)
From: Gregory Petrolati <gpetrola@prairienet.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:03:32 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: Triumph Cars List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
        Ever on the lookout, my freind Mike Andrews fro the Oklahoma DOT 
spotted this... While there's no LBC content there is B content.

gpetrola@prairienet.org                         1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
        "That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon 17 Jun 1996 08:45 CT
From: Mike.Andrews <UDSD007@DSIBM.OKLADOT.STATE.OK.US>
Subject: funny from the Rialto

> From: Erika.Sarah@launchpad.unc.edu (Erika Sarah)
> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> Subject: English measurements
> Date: 26 Oct 1994 07:54:24 GMT

> An American laboratory sent some data to an English lab using the
> Metric notation grams per cubic centimeter.  The English lab sent back the
> data with the comment "This is an English laboratory. WE do not use the
> METRIC system.  Please send the data back to us in English measurements."
>
> The American laboratory sent back the data in stones per royal firkin.

        I wonder if this is the lab that figures speed in "Furlongs per 
        Fortnight" for Sprites (He, He)

        GP


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