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Re: The Metric system...
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2020, 06:05:27 pm »
"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"

I didn't know they had strip joints in Troy....

I'd be very surprised if they didn't ... but I do believe the reference is to towers without roofs on them, just as a guess.

Ah ... semantics!?!?
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Wisdom is the domain of the Wis (which is extinct). Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence..."
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