In a message dated 2000-11-29 21:13:45 Eastern Standard Time,
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Opening sequence with the President on a test for an opening of a show with
calls to come in from school children. There is a question about the
temperature on Mars. He is supposed to pass it on to
Another example:
In Washington Union Station last week on track 9 a Federal Railroad
Administration track geometry car was on display. It was brand new.
On the side, just above the wheel trucks, were various decals giving
specifications about length and mass of vehicle, maximum tolerance
Nor does my Australian.
Baron Carter
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From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 November, 2000 23:36
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9449] RE: [USMA:9433] RE: [USMA:9432] «Papiers
d'identité»
I have both British (EU) and Canadian
US passports, also English/French bilingual, no longer show height or mass.
However, my old 1976 passport said
height/taille:6 feet/pieds0 inches/pouces
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I have both British (EU) and Canadian passports. Neither shows height (or
mass).
Bill Potts, CMS
San
This is good news, Paul! Tell us more about it. Is it really hard metric or
are the components "soft"? Next time I'm in the eastern "Rez" (as the Navajo
call it), I'll have to check it out. Is the PHS ahead of other federal
agencies on this? Are those special tapes numbered in centimeters or
I recently renewed my SC Driver's License. When asked for my height I
replied, "One point eight three meters". Do you all recall the E.F.
Hutton ads? The place became immediately silent, the clerk stopped
chewing her gum, stared at me, and dropped her jaw so far that the gum
almost fell out. We
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:50:27 -0700, "Dennis Brownridge"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
US passports, also English/French bilingual, no longer show height or mass.
However, my old 1976 passport said
height/taille:6 feet/pieds0 inches/pouces
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I have both British
I wish I could have been a fly on a palmetto leaf when you said that,
Jim!
Would have been interesting to see, after their double-take, their
response to the following: "Well, The 1988 amendment to the Metric
Conversion Act of 1975 states that the metric system is the preferred
system of
In California, we renew them by mail (as long as we have a clean record). I
just renewed mine.
As the ID photo is on record in digital form, the new license bears the same
picture as the old one, with no need for a retake of the photo.
Of course, California is a bit ahead of the curve in things
on 31.10.2000 02.27, Howard Ressel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Howard and All,
I received a call a few moments ago to say that an article of mine in a
national editorial journal 'Stylewise', had been taken up by the Brisbane
Courier-Mail.
Here is a draft of the article:
Imperial clichés
Most university students know this.
Isn't it fact that post people peaked academically at university. Isn't it
also a fact that university was the place that alcohol consumption peaked.
Ipso facto drink more, stay smarter. :-)
Baron Carter
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From: kilopascal
Australia not fully converted yet. Its Quarantine and Inspection Service
still quotes vaccination doses in IU/ml
http://www.aqis.gov.au/docs/anpolicy/dogcatapplication.pdf
http://www.aqis.gov.au/docs/anpolicy/dogcatapplication.pdf
Boomerang.gif
I believe "go the extra mile" is a Biblical admonition, in which case it
should be a Roman mile of about 1475 m, not the English mile of 1609 m, so I
suppose we should leave it as it is.
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Quotations
A pound of flesh ... (Shakespeare)
There was a crooked man, and he
I started keeping a U.S. passport in 1971. Only the 1971 passport lists
my height, in WOMBAT. Passports issued in 1977, 1982, 1986, and 1995 (my
current one) list no height.
Really, you would have thought that, even in 1971, the U.S. government
would at least have shown diplomatic deference to
I know that this is... off-topic, but I just couldn't resist (sorry, folks...)
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:05:00 Carter, Baron wrote:
Most university students know this.
I also am and I don't (didn't)... But I dispute such results anyways...
Isn't it fact that post people peaked academically at
It's called MTX, and it sounds like one bad bug. The worst part is it
blocks infected machines from visiting anti-virus web sites.
Fortunately, I didn't find out about it firsthand. There's an article about
it at http://www.msnbc.com/news/495873.asp .
2000-11-30
I just returned again from 3 glorious days in Chicago. Last evening, I went
to a Chinese Restaurant in a strip mall. After the meal, I went to a local
discount store in the same mall and saw TV's made by a company called Haier
Trading Company, LLC. On the French and Spanish sides,
2000-11-30
The question is, how long will they remember that nonsense. I'm sure we
were all taught that and had to memorize it, along with other conversions.
Yet, how many average Americans remember any but the most basic of
conversions?
Let them waste their time, but the joke will be on them
Dear Mr Barry Batushki [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just heard that your association is investigating the idea of
reintroducing old methods of measurement back into Saskatchewan's classrooms
in Canada.
I am
on 30.11.2000 06.37, Fardig, Paul S. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Paul and All,
One of the most dramatic metric conversions I ever saw involved a hand-out
of metric tapes and rulers. It involved all of the gas fitters in the South
Eastern state of Victoria in Australia.
An event was
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