Re: Expressing fractions

From: the Omrud (usenet.omrud_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:31:16 -0000

Peter T. Daniels typed thusly:

> the Omrud wrote:
> >
> > Aidan Kehoe typed thusly:
> >
> > >
> > > Ar an dara lá déag de m� Eanair, scr�obh Peter T. Daniels:
> > >
> > > > > No thanks. It's very kind of you to offer but I can access more than
> > > > > I need online.
> > > >
> > > > What else could you be referring to with "Leatherman"?
> > >
> > > One of the better Swiss-army-knife replacements in the world.
> > > http://www.leatherman.com/ is their website, but all you need to know is
> > > that they're durable, fantastic and relative hard to find outside of North
> > > America.
> >
> > What he said. Except that they are now widely available in the UK,
> > although obscenely expensive over here.
> >
> > They are based in Portland, and were founded by one Tim Leatherman.
>
> Portland, Maine; or Portland, Oregon?

Oregon.

> Surely a pseudonym.

I don't think so - there's a biog of him on their web site. The
tools have no relationship to leather - if he was inventing a name
then he'd have been better with Steelman or Stainlessman.
 
> There's a Swiss chain called something like Vercingetorix that's been
> popping up in upper-scale malls around here, which has an immense array
> of (authentic?) Swiss Army Knifes (or is the white cross symbol not
> trademarked?).

Victorinox. I think there might be two companies calling themselves
the Original Swiss Army Knife company - Victorix is certainly one of
them. 

-- 
David
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