Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] Ted Grant: Politically Correct Soul!
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:11:56 -0500

At 07:35 PM 1999-02-17 -0800, Ted Grant wrote:
>I didn't move 3000 klms to grow gills and web feet! 


"klms"?  could these be the mythical "klums" in which Barnack first metered
out the mythical SHARPO?  Or could this be the "kilo-litre-metric-system",
that wonderful abortive measuring device used to reduce Canadian firearms
to nought?

I presume you mean 1800 miles.  If so, kindly speak such.  Your nation,
after all, still inhabits houses built with honest "four by eight" lumber,
thank God, as this has meant that US lumber mills must fill your needs.
(Canada, apparently, has abandoned the God-given Imperial system of weights
and measures for the inherent PC lunacy of the "manic system", er, the
"metric system".  Their zoning and construction dudes, however, insist on
"four by eights" and the like.  Canadian lumber yards, or so it is
reported, cannot produce such, as this would violate the Pierre Elliot
Trudeau Metric Mandate.  So, New York, Michigan, and Washington State
lumber yards are laden with orders from contractors North Of The Border.)

Spare us this madness!

Marc

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