> Well, If I am pissing into the wind, I am pissing into the wind in rain guages which measure rain in centimeters not inches. > > I don't mean to say anything which you consider insulting or directed at you. > > However, I do believe that metrication is slowly inching forward. > > And I do believe that most of the so-called proponents are doing very little to help the cause. > > This is understandable, because so many metricationists feel so tired and discouraged, having expected, some of us, to wrap up a total win way back under Jimmy Carter, and others having expected to win a complete victory at least at some point in the last fifty years. > > Of course now I see dual labels on everything in the grocery store and in the drug store, etc., when I would not have seen this 20 years ago. > > Of course now we have most of the American population with at least some instruction in metric while in public school. > > But the advocates are no longer out there beating their drums or lobbying Congress or calling TV stations or doing any other thing to bring metric to the masses nearly so much as they were doing this kind of thing 20 years ago. > > Good news. Metric is coming anyhow. Bad news. But the discourged boosters, who could help things rush forward, are not doing nearly so much as they were doing two decades back. > > Oh, and I am one of those tired and discouraged boosters. I am not pretending I am any different than the people I criticize. I am tired. I am discouraged. It feels wrong that this entire business of metrication will drag on until after I die. However, I feel quite sure that the biggest part of metrication will be done at least within my lifetime. > > We need a healthy sense of dissatisfaction. We need to keep our minds, preserve a good attitude, not get discouraged. But we need a continued healthy sense of dissatisfaction. We need to encourage each other to do more. We need to bug the local weather guy and any other media guy to use metric in the TV, radio, newspaper, etc. We need to push the school system to teach metric as the primary way to do things, not as a seconday way to measure. > > I'd like to encourage our friends to contact us here with comments about little things you are doing to promote metrication. > > I'd like to hear more about little signs that metric is creeping forward, inch by inch. I'd like to hear more about little signs that metric is not creeping forward. > > Is there anyone out there working to get YOUR state to put up speed limit signs in metric? We did that here in Florida, dual signs, for a few years, then we tore em down. > > Come comment. Bring your friends. > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica > > Andy Johnson > Jacksonville > > --------------------------------------------- > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! > --------------------------------------------- > You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. > > Reply to this message: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=1102 > > Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list > > Return to "Metric America": > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica > ---------------------------------------------- > > Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: > http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C >
