ScottyGrover@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/3/2007 10:57:24 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> pethier@comcast.net writes:
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> It's all Thomas Jefferson's fault. If he could have put his ego in "Park"
> for five minutes, we'd be all metric.
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> Or at least change the definition of a yard from 39.37" to 40"---but I don't
> think there was a National Bureau of Standards in Red Tom's time.
>
> Scotty
You do mean a meter, not a yard, right? :)
Nothing keeping you from using metric in your day-to-day, though you may
get some funny looks now and then...
-Peter
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