From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:16:44 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

> "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 :-)

I wonder whether the advent of the calculator made stupidities like 5280
feet to a mile easier to deal with?

--
Gary Wiltshire

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