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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 22:02:04 GMT
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Metric is bigger than Imperial.. a 2 liter soda bottle holds more per "ounce" than a 2 quart bottle... same with a gallon of milk.. 4 quarts is less than 4 liters. Sproaticus wrote: > > Scott-A wrote: > > 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. > > But you still use MPH on the roads... > > Cheers, > - jsproat > > -- > 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 -- Keep on Bricken' -Tamy Follow the bouncing boxes! http://home.att.net/~mookie1/jambalaya.html http://home.att.net/~mookie1/ http://mookie.iwarp.com/ (mirror site) Lego isn't a toy, it's a way of life!

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		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
(...) Saying that one of the systems is bigger or smaller than the other is meaningless. A meter is bigger than a foot, but smaller than a yard. And _my_ foot is the same length, no matter what you measure it with. [1] It's just a matter of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: FS : Mars promo sets
But a inch is biger than a centemeter, a mile biger than a kilo metter (...) few (...) (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
(...) 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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