Followers and contributors; and recent archaeological discoveries

As of today, we have 6 followers. If we get more, Theo and I will consider opening up posting privileges to others. We can have as many as 100 people with posting privileges. What do you think? Do we have 100 people in our family-and-friends network that we can persuade to read Gulliver's Travels and to post? I can think of five right away: Sarah Durfor, who reads all the time; Rachel Durfor, who runs an on-line book review service; Mary, who reviews books almost every day, and is a terrific writer; Frances, who is working on a book of her own; and John, who would find a way to reproduce Liliputian recipes in his comments. Can you imagine the proportions? "1 ml water; 1 pinchinho of salt (pinchinho is the Liputian term for "pinch").

And here's the startling news that my title promises: Bulgarian archeologists working on Liliput recently unearthed a 1754 decree on a market stele that established an official measure for a pinchinho: 100 pinchinhininhos. We don't yet know what a pinchinhininho is. But clearly Lipiput was already on a metric system of some sort. Think of it: it took England 150 more years to catch up to Liliput! And the US still sadly lags in establishing a metric system.