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 ..."

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