The last two mornings Abu Dhabi has been covered in a blanket of fog. I know I promised I would get back to business and blog about the middle east, but all this fog makes it hard for blue-eyesight to focus on what's actually outside. When I see fog, I think of London and that reminds me of something I was reading the other day.
I love the British because they march to a different drummer. They invented the Imperial measurement system (only used in the UK, US, Burma and Liberia) based on the size of the king's foot back in the dark ages. The European Union is trying to get them to go metric, but they have told Brussels, "We will be sticking with the king's foot, thank you very much". By the way, that is why that little 12" stick we measure stuff with is called a "ruler".
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