That's exactly the response I expect from Jon and a lot of Americans who don't understand the metric system or its benefits. On the other hand I was watching an episode of Rove Live from Australia and he had on a guest who was from the UK and said he was six foot two inches tall. Rove McManus then asked him what that was in "real" meaning SI, measurements.
So I guess it goes both ways. I'd have to say the majority of people I talk to at work don't necessarily balk at me using SI terms but most of them kind of get a weird look on their face as they try to put it into some sense of feet and inches. I've gone to using dual units a lot for things like distance just so they at least connect the two. Ink cartridges I leave in milliliters though because .xx of a fluid ounce just takes to much time to say :) Mike On 8/2/07, Michael Palumbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jon Stewart interviewed Lewis Gordon Pugh, a distance swimmer who just > swam the waters of the North Pole. The video can be seen here (bottom > of the video list): > http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml > > Jon: "What was the temperature that you were dealing with in there?" > Lewis: "Minus 2 degrees Centigrade." > The audience gasps, and then Jon says, "What was the real temperature in > a language that makes sense?" > Lewis: "I think in America that'd be 28 degrees Fahrenheit." > > > I was a little disappointed in Jon's reaction to temperature in Celsius. > > > -Mike > > -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?" (\__/) (='.'=)This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your (")_(")signature to help him gain world domination.
