From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 09:01:14 EDT
On 28/07/2003 18:28, John Cowan wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>Napoleon managed to impose and are still uniform all the way from Calais 
>>to Vladivostok (because even the Russians accepted his system for a 
>>while), even traffic rules (drive on the right, give way to the right), 
>>but are different in the UK.
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>Yeah, you're still using the horseman-with-sword system rather than the
>cart-drover system.
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Perhaps it's a good thing you're not as your system makes things harder 
for the modern equivalent of horseman-with-sword, driver-with-gun!
-- Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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