----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-02-17 16:56 Subject: Yahoo! Clubs Metric America
> Dear Pro-Metric friend: > > Metrication inches forward. (Please help me find the metric equivalent for this expression.) > > Certainly I see more products with metric labels now than ever before. > > Certainly we hear metric units as we hear the discussion about the Olympic events. > > Now is not the time to give up, tired, discouraged, worn out, unhappy. All of us older proponents are certainly quite discouraged, of course, because we thought full-blown metrication was here back during Jimmy Carter. And we are tired of so much silliness and irrationality in the discussions of the last twenty years on this subject. > > Nevertheless, now is not the time to give up. DO SOMETHING. Take action. Speak out. > > Come voice your ideas at > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica > and please bring some friends. > > You might want to sound off at > http://forums.delphiforums.com/metric > and you might want to bring your friends. > > Check out http://metric1.org for info on > the SI Navigator and helpful material. > > You can get into the high-volume message > board at http://www.metric.org where you > find lots of people who know lots and lots about > metrication. Hey, you could even ask them > why they talk so much and do so little! > > Call your TV guys. Why don't they use metric > in their news? Call your newspaper guys. Look > for ways to give metric higher visibility. > > Metrication has not died. Metrication is creeping > forward. Metrication surrounds us. But we need > some greedy pro-metric folks to push it on home. > We need to be greedy in the sense of wanting a > total win, a complete win, an unconditional surrender > of the irrational WOMBAT forces. > > Andy Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica
