On 09-Mar-05 John Whittington wrote:
> At 12:52 09/03/05 +0000, John Logsdon wrote:
>
>>Has anyone noted that 9/11 - 911 - is the standard
>>emergency number in the US.
>>And 11/3 - 113 and the date of the Madrid bombing - is
>>the standard emergency number in many European countries.
>
> Yes, that has been very frequently noted, to the extent
> that some people verbalise "9/11" as "nine-one-one".
> However, none of that works unless one is American!!
>
>>So as the UK number is 999, why do we bother with locking
>>anyone up or wasting all the taxpayers money? It can't
>>happen here!
>
> Indeed - but, as above, that's only real true from the
> viewpoint of Americans in the UK!!
My mobile also offers 112, which can be read two ways:
11/2 and 1/12
each of which can be interpreted two ways (US and UK),
and all four are valid dates (two of which are past
for this year).
Hmm.
Ted.
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