Find a more artful way to put it if you like. But my point is, which so far appears to be picking very little enthusiasm here, that we ought to use the millennium as a gimmick, an excuse, a symbol, to justify extra efforts at speeding up metrication. But, heck if it would help us, I would be just as glad to say that Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday is a good day for metrication...or that January is a good month for getting metricated. --- Duncan Bath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Duncan Bath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:10637] Re: Fw: Yahoo! Clubs Metric > America > Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:35:22 -0500 > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think these items are laudable. > However, "This is 2001, the turn of the millennium" > strikes me as > gratuitous and unneccessary. We are, now in the > 21st century (whenever it > started)! > Duncan > > -----Original Message----- > From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: January 23, 2001 23:56 > Subject: [USMA:10628] Fw: Yahoo! Clubs Metric > America > > > > > >> Come check in with us at > >> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica > >> right away. > >> > >> This is 2001, the turn of the millennium. > >> > >> 1. Help us think of ways to connect > >> metrication with the turn of the millennium. > >> > >> 2. Help us think of a word for folks who > >> are zealots about metrication. > >> > >> 3. Help us think of a strategy for getting > >> Bush to take a pro-metric stance. > >> > >> 4. Help us begin to chop away at all mentions > >> anywhere on the internet of non-metric units. > >> Let's start working through clubs and board > >> and forums, etc., sweetly objecting to any > >> non-metric talk. It ought to be easy because, > >> after all, the internet is full of folks who > >> like to think they are also exchanging thoughts > >> with others throughout the world. > >> > >> Work to be done. > >> Best wishes. > >> Sincerely, > >> Andy Johnson > >> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica > >> > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
