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Re: Erik leaves home
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:29:30 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> James Howse wrote:
> > Yes there will be pictures I promise. ATM I'm some 100 kilometers (160 miles
> > for the metrically impared) from most of my lego so pictures will have to
> > wait.
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> I may not use metric on a regular basis, but I'm not so metrically
> impaired as to not see a problem with the above (if you are metrically
> impaired, just look at your speedometer tonight and see what the problem
> with the above is).
;-) Mainly that 160 km are 100 miles, not the opposite...
(and yes, I used to use the metric system regularly, until moving to the
'let's do it our way' US... :)
-Shiri
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Erik leaves home and goes many miles
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| (...) Oops! Well I guess that would make me imperically impared So it would be 65ish miles. I'm sorry but for me that's not so big a distance. Is that because I don't live with miles or is it just to do with the number involved. James from Oz (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Units and the like (was Re: Erik leaves home)
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| (...) We're not doing it our way, we're doing it the old way. Everyone else went and did it some other way. I think the metric system is a plot by the French to take over the world (or maybe a backlash against anything English, as evidenced by the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Erik leaves home
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| (...) I may not use metric on a regular basis, but I'm not so metrically impaired as to not see a problem with the above (if you are metrically impaired, just look at your speedometer tonight and see what the problem with the above is). (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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