From: Ellen K. 

This is very cute.   :)

On Wed, 05 May 2004 10:26:17 +0200, Jan van Hoek (NL)
 wrote in message
:

>>> And mainframe computer fanfold paper?
>
>If you won't tell it to anyone else, I am prepared to confess that
>I always change the paper settings in my word processor to inches,
>first thing after installing such software. I know those paper
>measures by heart, and I don't even recognize the same when
>expressed in millimeters. This force of habit is amplified by the
>plastic overlay templates that I have saved from my school days,
>which are also expressed in inches rather than millimeters. It's a
>benign deviation, which is not expected to disappear soon.
>
>I have the same with wood screws. In my younger days these were
>expressed in a mixed fashion: inches for length and millimeters
>for diameter (e.g. 3/4 x 6 means 3/4 inch long and 6 millimiters
>thick). Only shop assistants over 50 years of age will recognize
>these measures and translate them on the fly to what I really
>need.

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