Re: Understanding SC's Reports

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Ant wrote:
>> The holy hand-grenade of "antioch" wrote:
>>
>>> "Mike Easter" wrote:
>>>> I don't understand 'her indoors'
>>>
>>> Are you from the other side of the pond?
>>
>> Mike is from Leftpondia, whereas U and I are Rightpondians.
>
> You guys need to get straightened out on your ponds.

We know where we are - WE only have one pond.  We also have a 'gutter' which 
keeps us away(but not enough these days) from another land-mass.

> There are two.  The big pond and the little pond.

Gosh - you are a lucky bloke - you have two ponds ;-) ;-)

> I am on the right shore of the big pond.

Is that the sunny side, then?

> You guys over there on the right shores of the little pond seem to
> imagine that there is only one pond, and that the only people on the
> other side of the little pond you know about are the ones on the left
> shore of the little pond.
>
> That is a little bit like imagining that the earth is flat or something.
> We call it the Pacific Rim.
>
>
> OTOH -- I have no defense for the inane methods of sizing paper in the US. 
> Why they don't adopt the logical standards of ISO 216 I have no idea. 
> Just for the record, I believe we should use ISO 8601 for time standards 
> and ISO 216 for paper standards.
> Some of you Rightpondians are a little confused about some of those issues 
> as well.
> There are a few lurking non-participants in these 'topic drifts' who
> think the subject should be changed.
> Bah humbug.  We don't need no steenkin' subject badges.

> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>

P.S.
BS came back to me - they have no idea how I got another user's report.
It was also pointed out that I had not activated any of my reports.
So I will be spending most of the day trying to find out how to do that.
Rgds
Antioch