Dear Phil, You're right. The article called, 'Metric Land or What I think of the metric system' by Joan Pontius in dated 7 Oct 1999.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-01-08 10.24, Phil Chernack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> >
