"James Egan" <jegan@jegan.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:12:29 -0400, "FromTheRafters"
> <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
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>>> So if I wanted to express 0.5 as a vulgar fraction that would be
>>> "feckin' point five"
>>
>>5/10, 6/12, 233/466, then get the lowest vulgar denominator...
>>
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> It was supposed to be a joke.
>
And Rafters has an incredibly dry sense of humour and I took his reply as a
joke. (G) He is not your average American.........more like a Canuck or
Brit.....(joke)