I don't know if I willl be able to tune in via streaming web feed,
although I will certainly give it a try!
As an added bonus, I would make it a point to read the weather reports
and forcasts during the show using 'metric' units *ONLY* (ie, Celsius
temperatures, km/h wind and storm movement speeds, hPa air pressure and
mm or cm precipitation amounts).
:-)
Andy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: [USMA:9980] 3 hours metric promotion, Thursday, Dec. 28!
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:41:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Andy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Dear Metrication Proponents:
> Please join me on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000, at from 9
> a.m. until noon, east coast time, in a discussion and
> promotion of metrication on my radio call-in talk
> show. I host what I consider to be the best, most
> timely, most constructive, most heated, most fun, most
> prescient, and most efficacious political and public
> policy radio call-in talk show in North Florida each
> weekday from 9 until noon. This Thursday we will
> devote the entire to program to boosting metrication,
> with your help.
>
> The program each day is available on AM1320 WJGR in
> Jacksonville and now also on the net at
> http://www.wjgr.com if you just follow the directions.
>
> I invite the folks on this message board to join in a
> free-ranging, fun, and not necessarily well-organized
> discussion of why the U.S. ought to go metric.
>
> Please invite your friends. Please be so kind as to
> forward a copy of this email to anyone who might be
> interested.
>
> You may wish to participate through tuning in over the
> internet. You might want to do a bit more. Perhaps you
> would like to call in. I would like that very much.
> You can call at 904-389-1320 during the show at your
> own expense; tell my sidekick you are calling long
> distance so he can jump you ahead of local calls. Or,
> alternatively, you can email me prior to Wednesday at
> midnight with your name and phone, if you like, and I
> will place calls to as many metrication proponents as
> possible at our expense.
>
> You might wish to tune in to the show and
> simultaneously discuss the show here in this board or
> perhaps at the delphi board or at the small yahoo club
> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica as we use
> this radio program, Thursday, for a much value as we
> can get out of it.
>
> I am not a station employee. I broker the program. I
> buy my time and I take the risk of reselling
> advertising, sometimes making a profit for the week,
> sometimes not. I am a former member of the Florida
> House. The program usually involves a wide-ranging mix
> of local, state, and national issues. Sometimes I
> require callers to stay on topic, sometimes not. On
> Thursday I will for the most part hold the callers to
> the topic of metrication except for some brief
> interruptions.
>
> I believe strongly that the U.S. ought to move now to
> join the rest of the world, that any more delay in
> metrication is foolish, and that in many aspects of
> metrication, it would be easier to just make the
> switch than to torture ourselves with more years of
> half-metric, half-not.
>
> I have worked for many years to promote metrication. I
> am frustrated. I am angry. I want to get on with it.
>
> I believe that we ought to look for every possible
> opportunity to tie metrication to the turn of the
> millennium. Sure, the millennium is mainly a fiment of
> our imagination, but many folks want to associate the
> turn of the millennium with some important event. The
> important event is here. The year 2001 ought to be the
> year in which the entire world, including the U.S.,
> finally decides, once and for all, that we are all
> going to be metric.
>
> Please forward this to others.
> Please join me on Thursday.
>
> I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous
> 2001! And I wish for you a metric 2001!
>
> Sincerely,
> Andy Johnson
> Jacksonville, Florida
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica
> http://www.wjgr.com
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Regards,
Michael G. Koerner
Appleton, WI
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