I'm not so sure that this couldn't be a popular niche.
National talk radio host Jim Bohannon (who is very pro-metric) has said that
when he was a teenager, he preferred to quantify his masculinity to
girlfriends as 15 centimeters because "it always sounded so much more
impressive than six inches." -- Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:07 AM
Subject: [USMA:35458] Re: check of a dating site
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
