My dad's cousin, in Australia just mailed us
a birth announcement for her great-grandson,
from their local newspaper.
It was interesting that the announcement
listed the baby's weight in pounds and ounces,
and the height in inches. There was no metric
used at all.
Is this one of the few
To bad the clothing industry didn't accept the metric size recommendations
made years ago so baby's and people's physical dimensions would match the SI
clothing sizes. The main impediment is women's current clothing sizes are
made to mislead or hid real dimensions.
Stan Doore
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Dear Stan, Carleton, Stephen and All,
Sadly, what you say seems to be true.
What actually happens is that each baby has its mass determined in kilograms
to the nearest gram and its length recorded in millimetres to the nearest
millimetre by the nurses who assist with the birth. This is the way
Mail it back and ask him to put the dimensions that appear on the hospital
records on to the announcement, then mail it back to you.
Euric
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Sent: Tuesday, 2004-02-10 09:45
So why can't they compare the babies size in metric? Take the old reading
and convert it to metric and compare the old reading to that which appears
on the hospital records.
What happens if someone converts wrong or just guesses and guesses way off?
Euric
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From:
Relative Density and the Earth's
Rocks
February 7
2004,12:09 AM
Bryan, your enquiry about the relative
density of liquids reminds me to inform visitors to this bulletin board
that this phenomenon lies at the root of how most of the
Sometimes I think Euric (chimpsarecute) is really John (kilopascal) under a
different name.
About the time kilopascal quit posting, chimpsarecute started up. Same
kind of responses too.
Hmmgrin
At 14:49 2004-02-10, Chimpsarecute wrote:
Mail it back and ask him to put the dimensions
http://members.tripod.com/~siams_canada/
Salish Indians Against the Metric
System
Unfortunately, in the mid-1970s, all
Canadians were forced to adopt the metric system whether they wanted it or not.
Canada's First Nations were totally ignored in the process. At best it was
assumed that
sorry, this is no more than the average and stupid opponent *shit*
they all will die someday *harhar*
Euric:
You neglected to give us the name of the
scientifically-illiterate person who posted this. You also neglected to say
where you found it.
Bill Potts, CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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[mailto:[EMAIL
Tony Bennett on theBWMA forum.
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From:
Bill
Potts
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-02-10 19:11
Subject: [USMA:28629] RE: Get a load of
this!
Euric:
You neglected to give us the name of the
Hi could somebody tell me how they measure
capacity of cardboard boxes in metric countrys. In Canada and i
guess in the states they measure the capacity in cubic feet.
Dear Pat:
I'm wondering if there are any physicians who could be recruited to sign a petition
recommending that Australian hospitals that the existing charts be replaced with one
like the one you suggest and that the practice of hospital staff converting
measurements of mass from SI to
Sounds
like Creation Science.
cm
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Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
Chimpsarecute
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004
19:56
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:28630] RE: Get a
load of this!
Tony
Bennett on theBWMA forum.
I think that the BWMA, even though it may not officially
declare it, backs "creation science". I think part of their "gospel" is to
link imperial measurements to the Bible and hope to gain some sort of legitimacy
for imperial by relating it to God. As if imperial is the creation of God
and
Thanks Ezra.
I'll explore that possibility.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication
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