[USMA:23911] Fwd: RE: Wash Post Celsius?

[John Nichols]

I suggest more Prozac
that cures most things that ails the elderly American

I asked the local Eagle to put the weather on the front page in C and got a definite silence.

Then again this is the paper that announces that there is a 200 percent rise in homicides in Canada since tighter gun laws were introduced. The rise went up to 160? per year in 30,000,000 people. Compared to 10,000 + for the USA.

From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:23910] RE: Wash Post Celsius?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:17:03 -0800
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Nat Hager wrote:
>Am I sitting here with my coffee hallucinating, or did the Washington Post
>just add degrees C to their top page?.....

Can we choose both?

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
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College Station, TX 77843-3137

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