Re: We Went to the Moon on Feet and Inches
From: T (tberk_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/10/04
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 04:10:45 GMT
Neil Gerace wrote:
> "T" <tberk@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:hoP9d.8748$nj.2553@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
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>>Jonathan wrote:
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>>>"Joann Evans" <bondage@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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>>>> Are you under the impression that 'English' units are congentially
>>>>wired into our brains,
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>>>Yes! As in a foot. Look down, it's about that long.
>>>
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>>>s
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>>BWaHAHAHHAHahahAhahahahahaah!
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>>We, the US, should have moved to Metric a long time ago. We loose
>>_nothing_ in terms of being unamerican to do so.
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> Since the metric system was dreamed up by the republican French, I think
> it's very American to switch from a system of units based on the length of
> an English king's foot.
>
>
Will we have to wait for you and people who feel strongly as you might
seem to, to pass away before we stop deluding ourselves that it really
matters the French had anything to do with a system of measurement
enough to make it unwelcome?
WTF? Dude.
TBerk
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