Some jokes go dumb with time
I searched for P-notdot G-notdot Wodehouse and John F-notdot Kennedy and I got 663000 P-dot G-dot Wodehouse and a few million John F-dot Kennedy.
So what's with your dot problem Jennifer Baker. Nice though that you don't use the M$ and similar.
Reading some of these comments reminds me of a comment referring to some well known person who wrote - "whatever you suggest to a Brit he will always find something wrong with it".
I once had a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
Reading that made me feel Brits are the last ones to complain about byrocracy in the EU,
Have a look.
"In 1799, the French created, and started to use, a new system with the metre and the kilogram as the units of length and mass.".
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"In 1875, a British delegation was one of twenty national delegations to a convention in Paris that resulted in seventeen of the nations signing the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875,[23] and the establishment of three bodies, the CGPM, CIPM and BIPM, that were charged with overseeing weights and measures on behalf of the international community. The United Kingdom was one of the countries that declined to sign the convention".
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"In 1965, the then Federation of British Industry informed the British Government that its members favoured the adoption of the metric system. The Board of Trade, on behalf of the Government, agreed to support a ten-year metrication programme[
Quite a story.