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Subject:	Re: FS : Mars promo sets
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:10:42 GMT
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> 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. We changed over in the UK way back in the 70's. At that time we were all ripped of as products were generally down sized to metric sizes by a few few grams or millilitres.... but the prices stayed just the same.

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		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
(...) But you still use MPH on the roads... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
(...) 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. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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