From: Monte Davis 

"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
>I wish we'd get serious about metric...

Seconded. I've never seen anything in the foot-dragging -- or active
opposition to it -- beyond

(1) "it was good enough for Grampa" and silliness about "who
wants to say 'a miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers'?"

(2) more or less covert sentiments that We the Middle Kingdom need not
accommodate barbarians, or that metrication is some kind of sinister
black-helicopter New World Order plot.

> 49, what the hell is that,  7^2?

It's seven years younger than me, dammit. Quitcherbitchin :-)

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