Now, we are getting down to the nitty-gritty of measurement and emotion (grin). Like U.S. football and song lyrics, there are places where metric won't be visiting in the immediate future in the U.S.
I think it was the actress Mae West who remarked about the man who bragged he was six feet, seven inches tall. "I don't care about the six feet," she said, "just the seven inches." Recently, I was chatting with a friend who is a former police officer, saying how I'd like to have my height on my driver's license to be stated as 1.73 m. He said the cops would think I was pretty short. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 18:44 Subject: [USMA:35454] check of a dating site > I just searched Science Connection and brought up the profiles of 85 women. Of > them, 2 listed height or weight in metric, 1 said "9 stone", 11 put no height > or weight, and the rest listed inches and/or pounds. > > phma > >
