That rant is more than a few years old. I came across it a year or two ago on metricsucks.com. It has been reproduced on a few different sites (anti-metric of course). It kind of makes me think it may be the stuff of urban legend.
Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Potts Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 6:08 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:31830] Re: Anti-metric blog A Google search on Joan Pontius provides a large number of hits, including her anti-metric rant at http://www.dsgb.orbix.co.uk/rankine.html. I see no point in responding to her. Her (apparently closed) mind is obviously made up. Of course, she anticipates any response by claiming that the pro-metric faction (which would obviously include us) has a closed mind. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Pat Naughtin >Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 14:01 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:31828] Re: Anti-metric blog > > >Dear Carleton and All, > >Thanks for the link. I found it quite distressing that there are people >around with a pressing need to produce this sort of garbled rubbish. > >Interestingly, they provide no points of contact so that we might reply to >their more ridiculous assertions. > >It seems that they not only want to force us all to use the old >thous, mils, >sixteenths, quarters, inches, feet, yards, rods, poles, perches, >and all the >different kinds of miles, but they want to enforce their will on >the rest of >us anonymously! > >However, having said that, the name Joan Pontius seems to ring a vague bell >with me. Have we heard from her before? > >Cheers, > >Pat Naughtin >Geelong, Australia >61 3 5241 2008 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.metricationmatters.com > > >on 2005-01-08 05.06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> >>> Found this blog on the web... >>> >>> http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Metrication/metric_land.htm >>>> >>>> Carleton >> > >
