I found this gem, where Mike Warren (http://www.mike-warren.com), gives an answer to a load of ******, written by a certain David Warren in the (Canadian) National Post. He is a Canadian friend of the cause. Alas, the orginal article by his namesake is not available anymore, I tried the link below. Mike Warren wonders where they found these people and the cost of printing this garbage, Han Nat'lPost: Metric System Tyranny?! July 10, 2000 <URL: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html? f=/stories/20000708/339028.html> >From the ``national-post news'' room (a very, very loose term, given that almost every single story and editorial is STILL about LaughingStock) comes this gem, ``Ten: the magical number of tyranny''. The author (David Warren; no relation, thank christ) apparently prefers a system based on random body parts rather than logic. Hey David! How fast am I going at 3 furlongs per fortnight? Let's take a look at some choice quotes from David's incoherent (but long; fills space ya know) ``article'': ``Ottawa's metric police and propaganda machine.'' ``The metric system was originally imposed on France by the blood-soaked operatives of the Revolutionary Terror.'' ``In Britain, the U.S. and Canada, the metric system could not initially prevail, because we were free peoples...the despised decimals were rammed down every protesting throat.'' ``The idea of a pound is also found everywhere. It is the ideal weight for a stone that will be hurled. More, and you can't make it travel, less and it will have no great effect. The gram, by comparison, is a meaningless entity, and the kilo not for throwing but for dropping on your foot.'' ``For the metre came as a bolt from the blue, and its strictly decimal divisions like the sword of Armageddon. The proponents argued that God made us with 10 fingers, but this was a typical metric lie. He made most of us with eight fingers, and two thumbs.'' ``I said numbers have mystical properties. This is decidedly the case with the number 10. It is the magical number of tyranny. It can be halved only once, and can never go into thirds. It allows the deceptive ease of calculating in decimal places, such that when right we only approximately hit the boat, but when wrong we land in another ocean.'' Where the hell do they FIND these people?! What did it cost to print this garbage? � Copyright 1999-2001 Mike Warren (mike-warren.com). This content may be reproduced verbatim in any medium provided this copyright notice and all content remains unchanged.
