Wouldn't make a lot of sense to ask this of the guy who reports
the weather!
Jim
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To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:14887] Re: FW: Olympic
Bill Hooper wrote in USMA 14889:
Louis wrote:
Don't be mislead : this Dutch pound means 500 g. As do the French
livre, the German pfund, etc. Just a remnant of a unit which was
convenient.
That could be. I did not purchase any meat of fish so I did not see any of
it actually weighed on a
John (kilopascal) recently reported on the metric readouts in a 2000 Pontiac
Bonneville. I have recently purchased a 2001 Chevy Impala which has
switchable metric/non-metric readouts.
I am pleased to note that my Impala does a good (although not perfect) job
of providing me with the information
2001-08-13
It could go both ways. The quarter-pound is the mass of the meat un-cooked.
After cooking, the mass is reduced. So, the hundred grammer is closer to
being true to what you actually get.
John
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It's called Hamburger Royal in much of Europe. (The final e was an error.)
I live in California (as my tag line always indicates) and I visit Europe
quite often.
In 1988, I lived in Germany for seven months. It was called a Hamburger
Royal there then and, as far as I know, it still is. (I was
This must mean that US metric education will send everyone to grammer school
(GRIN).
kilopascal wrote:
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2001-08-13It could go both ways. The quarter-pound is the mass of the meat un-cooked.After cooking, the mass is reduced. So, the hundred grammer
And don;t forget the McOz Burger
http://www.mcdonalds.com/countries/australia/food/index.html
:-)
Baron Carter
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From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 13 August, 2001 10:36
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:14897] Re: metric in The
2001-08-13
As I reported here a few months ago, the quarter pounder is called quart de
libre in Venezuela. I was not sure at the time, nor am I now, as to whether
the libre was 500 g or 454 g. Even though libre means 500 g, they may
allow an American company like McDonalds get away with using
2001-08-13
http://www.mcdonalds.nl/mcproducts/index.html
The quarter pounder in Dutch:
Sinds 1987 staat deze burger op het menu. Een Quarter Pounder bestaat uit
een extra dikke burger van 100% puur rundvlees, twee plakken Cheddar kaas,
uitjes, schijfjes augurk, ketchup en mosterd op een vers
Han wrote
I think that there are krail cars which can be lifted
from one to another undercarriage.
So will it be like a container box, which can be
shifted from a train to a truck / ship.
By the way, container lengths are always rounded to
feet.
The 4 different lengths of container boxes are
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, R. David Thomas, Jr asked:
... How do I find out the implementation of this order?
Dave,
The Secretary of Commerce has the duty to report annual metrication
progress to the President:
Section 1., Paragraph (c) of the Order states that The Secretary
shall report to the
2001-08-13
There is probably a very good reason that agencies listed at the bottom of
your posting have done nothing to convert to metric. These agencies are
maybe the most visible to the public, and the public not only doesn't
use metric, but is hostile to it.
We as metric supporters will
I know that this subject was once talked to death on this listserv,
but US metric liquor sizes leapt out at me from a liquor store window
sign last week. A sale item was quoted per 750 ml bottle, no WOMBAT
stated. Gee, those distillers have gotten into the spirit of the thing!
Of course,
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