----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [USMA:21770] SOMEONE'S got to decide if the world is going to use the metric system of measurement or the good old English system.
| My response to Charley is below:- | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:38 AM | Subject: [USMA:21770] SOMEONE'S got to decide if the world is going to use | the metric system of measurement or the good old English system. | | | 2002-08-16 | | Here is another good one! | | Please people.... flood this guy with e-mail and inform him that the WORLD | has already decided. They already use the metric system. | | http://starbulletin.com/1999/10/04/features/memminger.html | | | John | | Hi Charley, | | It must be terrible being an American these days to be told that not only | are you the last country to be converting to the SI system but you are the | laughing stock of the whole world. | | It's just the same as if you're all driving Model T Fords ONLY because your | grandpappies used to, and they still work fine so why change? | | Wake up Charley. The US is only one of 225 countries in the world. The | noisier you folk are the sillier you look. | | Regards | | Mike Joy | | Perth, Australia | cc USMA | |
