From: Michael.Kuettner@gmx.at   
      
   David DeLaney wrote:   
   > On 2013-11-03, Bill Gill  wrote:   
   >> On 11/2/2013 2:23 PM, David Scheidt wrote:   
   >>> It'd be less, if only we had metric calendars.   
   >   
   >> We had our chance with the French Revolutionary Calendar.  After   
   >> all that's where the metric system came from.  We could have   
   >> adopted the calendar too.   
   >   
   > Fortunately, our own dear Emperor did not decide to proclaim that the USA   
   > should do so. (He had other bees to fry.)   
   >   
   OK, I'll byte.   
   The emperor is Smith, I guess.   
   My question :   
   Do you mean by the bees the bees on the Merovingian horse-blanket   
   in which Napoleon crowned himself ? Or have the bees another meaning ?   
      
      
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Michael "ed-ricing just a little" Kuettner   
      
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