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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted Grant: Politically Correct Soul!
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:16:16 +0800

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
>
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