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Re: the metric system
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Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:36:57 GMT
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 01:05:29 GMT, Christopher Tracey
<ctracey@enviroweb.org> wrote:
yay or nay?

Yay!!!

I can't belive that US is still using the imperial system. Last
country in the world?
/Tobbe

http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/



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  Re: the metric system
 
(...) Your forgetting about the Uk we still have plenty of imperial knocking around. It's about time we got rid of the lot except of course miles per hour, Anyone who trys to change that does so at their own peril. Steve (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: the metric system
 
(...) I think it's the US, Liberia, and Burma are the last holdouts for any sort of mandated metric conversion. -chris (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  the metric system
 
yay or nay? -chris (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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