Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That was what my 6th grade science teacher said twenty years ago! Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Marc, > > When I lived in the U.S., I happily adapted to the irrational system of > Imperial measurements, figuring that Americans must be very good at doing > calculations in their heads since they insist of sticking with a system that > requires you to do things like multiplying by 16 to go from ounces to pounds, > instead of a nice rational system used in the rest of the world where you > always merely move a decimal point to go from one measure to another. But fear > not, even the U.S. will see the light some day and will complete the American > Revolution by getting rid of the system stemming from the old mother country. > The now common 2 liter soft drink bottles are definitive proof that the > traditionalists have lost the war. > > Nathan > > Marc James Small wrote: > > > (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". > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Overijse, Belgium > > Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html > Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html