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Rob Doucette wrote:
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561451642-ba3
I loved that last paragraph: "There are other signs that the United States is
*INCHING* toward acceptance of the metric system..." [emphasis mine]
I saw it noted somewhere that the 2-liter soda bottle is a 2-liter bottle and
not a 2.11-quart bottle *only* because the imperial measurement is not given
as an alternative. So, goes the line of thought, if we were to start calling
12-oz cans 340-g cans, they'd still be 12-oz cans a decade later.
Cheers,
- jsproat
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Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
"I've spent the past few years building up an immunity to bullets."
- Angus McGuire
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