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, the size of the TV
was stated as 50,8 cm. The mass was 24.5 kg. Everything in these two
languages was SI. But, sad to say, everything on the English side was in
FFU.
Now, I only wished they would have rounded the 50,8 cm to 51 cm or even 50
cm. But, I guess 50,8 is better than nothing.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Howard Ressel
Sent: Wednesday, 2000-11-29 08:18
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9422] Re: Americans' famiiliarity with WOMBAT -Reply
I think though that the tide of American products is quickly changing to
metric. Has anyone noticed that most mouthwash is now hard metric?
Scope and Listerine and even the store brands next to them are in hard
metric sizes. It seems that within a few short years almost all liquid
products will be hard metric.
>>> Hooper, Bill and or Barbara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/28/00
08:03pm >>>
What a great argument against putting Olde English measures on boxes
and
bottles!
> Just put "500 g" and "1 L" on the products and be done with it.
> Since they don't know WOMBAT then what is the big deal if they
> don't know metric quantities either.
