The following paragraph was from the 2001-03-28 National Post. It's obvious to this "reporter" that the metric system is merely trivia that seeps into our brains that we would be better without. I wonder if that's how our European, Asian, African, and Australian friends feel about USUKimp. greg ... No pain, no gain Superhuman Body explores solutions to some of medicine's most extreme cases Scott Feschuk National Post <snip> I firmly declare myself to be in the camp that considers learning a good thing, so long as it's not that sneaky kind of education that The Man tries to trick you into absorbing, like the metric system or the names of those twerps from 'N Sync. But would it kill the fine folks at The Learning Channel to concoct some sort of scrambling device that would enable casual viewers to surf past without getting an eyeful of spleen? Or, as was the case last night, hideously wounded liver. <snip> The full text can be found at: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010328/514408.html greg
