On Dec 13, 12:00*pm, polygonum wrote:
On 12/12/2012 15:48, tony sayer wrote:







In article , Mike Tomlinson
scribeth thus
In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes

B-) *He has an astrophysics degree of some sort but how long ago? More
than 10 years ago it'll be way out of date.

He only recently completed it. *Started the course but took time out to
do rock'n'roll. *Once he'd 'retired' he completed the course and got his
degree in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Astrophysics

Surely degrees don't go out of date .. do they?...

I have been rather hoping (for all too many years) that Fahrenheit
degrees really would go out of date.

In the all-too-brief weather forecasts, they waste a sizable proportion
of their word count repeating temperatures in F.

--
Rod

They are still used in America. Along with inches, feet and pounds.
DegF is no more illogical than degC.
Now you might argue degK is logical.