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Has it ever dawned on you?
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Bobtanian | Report | 21 Apr 2004 19:24 |
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does any one know the connection between Celsius, and Centigrade......(or the differences) |
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Auntie Peanut | Report | 21 Apr 2004 10:06 |
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Thanks for that Gwyneth. You have just switched my light on. Like you I had just accepted it. Called out to Tom if he knew, and he worked it out for himself (he's a clever b----r), but until I mentioned it, he had no idea. I have had 'light bulbs' moments before, but I can't remember what they were!!! lol Cheers Norah |
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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ | Report | 21 Apr 2004 09:42 |
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Hi Gwyneth It didn't actually take ages for this one and it didn't exactly dawn on me as I was put right. I thought that the Beddiel and Skinner World Cup song was 'Three Lines on my Shirt'. My husband heard me singing it a couple of years later and put me right - once he'd picked himself up off the floor. Three Lions makes perfect sense now I've had it explained to me. lol Jeanette |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 21 Apr 2004 09:07 |
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Has anyone else ever 'seen the light' about something they had just accepted for years?... I was 40+ when we were following a lorry and I suddenly realised that cwt actually had a meaning. I had never before thought of the C for 100 and WT for weight, but had always just accepted hundredweight as a measurement of weight. Children today might want to know why it started with a C not H but we never questioned it and weren't told. |
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