What most folks don’t realize is that the common temperature scale is hard-wired into americanism. On July 4th, 1776, in the Town of Philadelphia, Royal Province of Pennsylvania, future President of the United States Thomas Jefferson went into to a thermometer shop, to buy a thermometer. He was offered a number of Celsiusgrade thermometers, all @ knock-down prices:
117 7/9 C = man’s food preservation temperature
64 4/9 C = mans’ body preservation temperature
Mr. Jefferson refused to purchase any Celsiusgrade thermometers. Next Mr. Jefferson was offered a number of Reaumurgrade thermometers, all @ knock-down prices:
-14 2/9 R = man’s food preservation temperature
28 4/9 R = mans’ body preservation temperature
Mr. Jefferson refused to purchase any Reaumurgrade thermometers. Finally Mr. Jefferson was offered the only Common Temperature thermometer in the shop, but @ the full price only:
0º = man’s food preservation temperature
96º = mans’ body preservation temperature
Mr. Jefferson bought the Common Temperature thermometer @ the full price. At 2:00:00:0 p.m. the outside temperature in the Town of Philadelphia was 76º
Later that day, as a member of the Congress of the United Colonies of America, Mr. Jefferson signed the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, creating the United States.
The Royal Governor of the Royal Province of Pennsylvania had previously forced all thermometer shops to carry stocks of Reaumurgrade thermometers and Celsiusgrade thermometers. No one bought them, even when they were knocked down to quarter price.
Later the Royal Governor had to flee back to the United Kingdom after he made the following statement in his speech to the Assembly of the Royal Province of Pennsylvania:
‘’An englishman’s (englander’s??? englishwoman’s???) right to keep and bear firearms under the Bill of Rights, does not apply to pennsylvanians, as Pennsylvania is not in South Britain.’’
In the year 2005, pennsylvanians enjoy ALL the rights of englanders under the Bill of Rights 1688/9 & additionally the rights of pennsylvanians under the Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth or Free State of Pennsylvania 1776 & additionally as americans under the Ten Amendments 1789 of the Constitution for the United States of America 1787. As for englanders in 2005, may God have mercy upon them all.
For in the year 2005 socialist governors, having failed to deprive pennsylvanians of their rights as englanders under the Bill of Rights, have succeeded in depriving englanders of their rights as englanders under the Bill of Rights. This is in accordance with the socialist doctrine that there is no such thing as the Rule of Law, because only the Rule of Man truly exsists, as man does not have a soul.
Will someone tell this person we are in the 21-st century, not the 18-th. It is 2005, not 1776 and Thomas Jefferson is dead. I think XCOLE would join Jefferson if he ever visited a chemistry or physics lab or any medical facility in the US.
Re: Well I Declare! Is it ‘76 or is it 76º?
April 23 2005, 9:09 PM
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Re: Well I Declare! Is it ‘76 or is it 76º?
April 23 2005, 10:20 PM
Sorry, it's 24.4°. The National Weather Service changed their METAR aviation report to degrees Celsius in 1996. Ref: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ops2/Surface/faq.htm
Actually, all their data is logged in metric and "Impericated" (softly) for reporting to the "common folks."
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