[Lokibob]

LOL, pick a fight that is meaningful. Do you correct people who use centigrade instead of Fahrenheit? Meters vs. feet?

I once did a weather forecast that had all the wind speeds in furlongs per fortnight.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

What's that in pouds per verst?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Do you correct people who use centigrade instead of Fahrenheit? Meters vs. feet?

I don't usually have the chance to rise to that one but it has potential. Possibilities include: "So, did you inherit your Bonapartism or did you acquire it from subersive school teachers?: or "Do you mean in terms of one ten-millionths of the North Polar quadrant of the Paris meridian?" One of my favorite party games is finding a smug believer in Darwinian evolution and asking them to estimate the amount of "monkey blood" that flows in their veins. Then, keeping my face very straight, I ask for their estimate of the percent of "simianism" they inherited from each parent. This question invariably leads to considerations of other family members. Even among the most rabid evolutionists, brothers-in-law invariably have more (and more recent) "ape-ish" descendants.

[Talking_Mouse]

I once did a weather forecast that had all the wind speeds in furlongs per fortnight.

One of my favorite buttons is:
"1,802,617,500,000 furlongs per fortnight; it's not just a good idea, it's the law"

What can I say but I'm a geek?