2002-11-27 This reminds me of Reader's Digest magazine. Back in the '70s Reader's Digest printed an anti-metric article. It basically outline the horrors that we would have to go through if we went metric. Such as the 35 mile drive between Akron and Cleveland would become 56.327 04 km. All of our precious and time honoured sayings would become bastardised. Etc.
Now, we all know RD publishes all over the world and they would never have printed such an article in any of the foreign editions. but, for some reason they did in the US edition. It just goes to show you that these companies are not as internally unified as one may think. John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-11-27 02:41 Subject: [USMA:23607] Re: M&M's On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:32:36 +0100, "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Simple. Mars Products America is trying to prove that metric is ridiculous, >difficult, always yielding monstrous numerical values and therefore it >should never be adopted in the USA. On the other hand this company is trying >to prove that USC is rational, simple, always yielding sane numerical values >and the only sensible choice of units. > >Here all Mars products are packed in rational metric sizes with no TABD >'supplementary' indications at all As in the UK. In fact, it's Mars who bring out a Christmas special, called the 'Metre of Mars', while the good old British company, Cadbury, brings out a 'Yard of Dairy Milk' (or somesuch). Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
