If Peter Seymour looked a little closer at his car's odometer, he'd see that "kph" is nowhere to be seen. <g>
As Bugs Bunny would say, "What a maroon." Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] P.S. For any list members so benighted as to be unfamiliar with Bugs Bunny, "maroon" is his corruption of the word "moron." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Han Maenen Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:41 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:18677] Yardstick March 2002 This article on the USA is in this month's issue of the BWMA's magazine Yardistick: BRITISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ASSOCIATION THE US IS STILL WITH US Mr Peter Seymour, a journalist, screenwriter and actor living in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, published an article in the July 2001 issue of �Ideas on Liberty�, the magazine of the Foundation for Economic Education at Irvington on Hudson in New York, and a later version appeared in the September of �The European Journal�, entitled �The Metric Assault on American Standards�, on which we warmly compliment the editor and his colleagues at the European Foundation, and from which � in view of the article�s great importance � we extensively quote as follows: <---------- clipped here for brevity-----------------> "... the most visible vestiges of which are the �kph� markings on speedometers ..."
