I'm actually sitting at a bar, right now. Aren't BlackBerries wonderful? Beer is still measured in pints.
Mind you they skim. It's only 18 oz. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -----Original Message----- From: "Roberts, John J" <jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:41:55 To: <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ... On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote: > Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement > for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia, > Canada. >Canada is all screwed up <G> We bought jewelry, chocolates, and >a book at a Halifax mall, and each receipt had a different date >format. Canada was further along the metric road at one point. Then the government changed and they (Brian Mulroney's Conservatives) backpedalled on a few things. Mostly it was weights and measures in the supermarket, just so grandma wouldn't get confused. So while canucks buy gasoline, milk and wine by the litre, meat and veggies are still in pounds. In CFL football, it is still 1st down and 10 YARDS to go. Pilots still deal in altitudes expressed in feet, distances in nautical miles and speeds expressed in knots. Highway speeds and distances are in kilometers (there are signs to warn Yankees that a limit of 100kph is really ~60mph). Two by four construction lumber is still the same dimensions (more like 1.6in by 3.2in). I've been away awhile so I don't know if a beer is 500ml or an imperial pint. Maybe Ted knows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
