> I think Dave is American, so maybe the Canadian fellow was simply > translating meters to yards for Dave's sake because he assumed Dave would > have no clue what the distance in meters would mean.
Why do we keep assuming that others think Americans have no clue what metric is? If you went to school in the U.S. in the past 40 years, you know what metric is, you know how long a meter is and you know how much a kilogram is. People may play dumb but they know. Phil
