2002-04-05 How about: I wouldn't touch that with a ten metre pole? It sounds better in metric than in FFU.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-04-05 16:00 Subject: [USMA:19265] RE: Gram of action On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:36:15 -0800, "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is, by the way, something we've dealt with before, in this list. We >don't advance the cause of metrication by trying to metricate traditional >proverbs, sayings, metaphors, and other figures of speech. They are what >they are and they reflect the time in which they acquired their proverb >status. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop the anti-metricationists repeating the same old claims of "I suppose you'll want to say 'his 454 g of flesh'", or "give him 2.54 cm and he'll take 1.6 km", etc., etc., as if they're the first to have thought of it, and think themselves terribly witty. If I had a euro for every time I heard one of these, I'd be a rich man! Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
