"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday Funny
I had not heard of this before, but in 1995, two scientists created a remarkable hoax, claiming that the metric system had been invented in the 18th century by "Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre." Read all about it (H/T: Captain Heinrichs).
3 comments:
HA! I don't recall this, but it's a good one!
Makes you wonder why a "litre" is not called a "mouton".
The US Military have expressed interest in the killer-joule.
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