Dear Mike, Here's another version.
Thirty is warm, Twenty is nice, Ten is chilly, Zero is ice Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2004-12-18 08.27, Mike Panfil at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This may be a rehash of other postings, but I ran across the following poem > about 20 years ago. I believe an elementary science teacher wrote it. I no > longer have the source. Although it may not be grammatically correct, for > me it has been a simple "training" tool for introducing Celsius temperatures > especially recently for my wife, young children, and acquaintances. > > Here in the USA there seems to be no movement to convert from Fahrenheit > within the public arena. In the 1970's we had a lot of dual references > including bank temperature sign displays, but even that has somewhat faded > away. About two years ago I asked a local television station if they would > display Celsius along with Fahrenheit during the weather forecast; and they > did, but only for a day. > > QUESTIONS: > 1. Is the USA the only country that continues to use Fahrenheit exclusively > other than our medical, science, and engineering industries? > > 2. Those of you in Canada and Europe who went through some type of > temperature conversion period, how painful (or rather painless) was it? > > Thank you, > > Mike > > *** > > The Celsius Poem > > 30 - You're hot > 20 - You're not > 10 - You sneeze > 0 - You freeze > >
