Louise Bremner wrote:
> Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:

> Hehehehe.... I'm kinda puzzled over the usage of "international".... The
> meaning seems to have drifted from "between any two different nations"
> to "anything outside of my nation", maybe as a polite avoidance of the
> connotations of "foreign". But then I recently tried to order something
> from a US website, clicked the "International Shipping" button, and
> learnt that they were so proud of themselves for extending their
> shipping to Cananda and Alaska, and even Hawaii....
> 
> But Declan's URL is accessible, and it's also in units I understand.....

I guess AP puts out two versions of the text in the newsfeeds.

>>When I was a kid I knew of a similar case. One of the men who worked
>>at our local fire department had the strength of a bull and the build
>>of a beachball. He must have weighed in the neighborhood of 500
>>pounds. When it came time for his physical, the doctor couldn't weigh
>>him and sent him down to the Farmers' Co-Op to be weighed on the feed
>>scales.
> 
> I think I've heard tell of a weigh-station, but not sure if that was a
> joke.

I'm wondering exactly how they weighed him. My guess is that they drove 
the truck onto the scale, weighed both truck and err load, drove off the 
scale, rolled the fat bastard off, then drove back to the scale to weigh 
the truck again and calculate the diff. Very dignified indeed.

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