Subj : Re: Metric Dozen To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Sun Dec 04 2022 14:37:46 >> Q: What's green & smells like red paint? A: Green paint. > Substitute your favorite color...but, there's not one for plaid. :P > When I worked in silkscreen printing, we had a color chart that had to > be replaced yearly, as the fluorescent lights would discolor it. It was > known as a Pantone Matching System chart...a colorful version of PMS. :P Not So useful a colour-matching chart when it no longer was the colour it was supposed to represent, eh? They still use the Pantone charts, in some paint stores -- I guess it was a useful & enduring creation -- although I might trust a computer image better, as it won't discolour over time. . . >> Q: Why is it spelled "Color" in the US but "Colour" in Britain? A: >> Because after the revolutionary war, the freed United States told >> Britain defiantly, "We're getting rid of you". > They talk and spell funny compared to the US. Umm, yeah, they somehow, prior to to the existence of the US, botched the language? I like the meme that plays on the oft-seen Chinese translation: "Simplified / Traditional" by saying: English: Traditional (UK flag) Simplified (US Flag) Canada is a funny one; we spell UK, bit pronounce US. Australia has their own words; whatever looks right after 8 pints of warm pissy tasting beer is valid & defend to their death anyone's disagreement of your rendition. Irish English is what you get after getting hammered on Guinness Stout then getting into a dozen bar fights Fitzhenry & Fitzpatrick were in court, answering to charges of fighting in a local pub. The judge asked Fitzpatrick what instigated the fight & he answered, "Well, your honour, he had a broken beer bottle in his left hand, & a knife in his right." "& what did you have yin your hand?" asked hizzonner "Mrs. Fitzhenry's tit, & a fine thing it was sir, but not much good in a fight, I'll tell ya." --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757) .