On 05/08/2018 01:51 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2018 11:45:50 -0600, rbowman wrote:

On 05/08/2018 04:44 AM, Chuck Dumbrowcyzk wrote:
On 05/07/2018 03:43 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Why on earth would you still use an antiquated measurement system that
doesn't have a zero in a sensible place? C is easy - 0 is freezing
100 is boiling. Of water, the most important thing on the planet.

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale invented by a Polock
physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).


Being born in Danzig doesn't make him a Pole...
More likely a Cherman than a Pole.
Danzig was it's (East) german name. When it became part of Poland it
was knownn as Gdansk.


Poland has a checkered history. It sucks being a big, flat place between
the Germans and the Russians. Armies love flat places. Then after WWI
being between Germany and East Prussia wasn't good either particularly
when the Poles believed the British guarantee was worth a bucket of warm
spit and refused the Germans passage through the Corridor.

They just never learn. When a major power says 'we've got your six'
you'd damn well better have Plan B oiled up and ready to go.