[geeks] adventures with electric utility companies

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dan Duncan wrote:

> Obviously the unmoved cables won't fit on the new pole.
> In the second picture, the unmoved cables are CLEARLY LABELLED
> as METRIC.

Heh.

On Metric Blvd. (not all that far from the picture, actually), there's
an office park named "Metric Center" or some other such boring thing.
Their signs are all upright rectangles with Metric written down the
right side, and hash marks on the left to indicate some sort of ruler;
obviously a pun on "metric".

However, rather than being hashed in 1/10ths, they're hashed in halves,
quarters, and eighths.

OW, THE PAIN!!

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Jonathan Patschke )"We're Germans and we use Unix.  That's a combination
Elgin, TX        (  of two demographic groups known to have no sense of
USA               ) humour whatsoever." - Hanno Mueller in de.c.o.u.p