Back in the mid-eighties, I read a short story in the Reader's Digest that one could classify as mildly pro-metric. A woman wakes up one morning to find everything around her in metric. She goes to the store to buy some groceries, but the store has rearranged its wares, so she asks a little girl where she could find a pint of milk. The girl replies "I don't know what a pint is."
That's how the story ends. No judgment passed, just a bit of a Rip Van Winkle situation. Remek On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Han Maenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw it recently on the Air Crash Investigation Series and I have seen a > movie about this event. They did not degenerate into anti-metric rants, and > that would have been sooooooo easy! That was however the case with the > covering by Readers Digest, which spouted the line of the Progressive > Conservatives, the vote-catching anti-metric party. In 1968 Readers Digest > was pro-metric and published a positive article by Harland Manchester about > British metrication. However some time later, RD published a piece of > 'humour' which marked their switch to the other side. > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 2008, June 19 7:46 > *Subject:* [USMA:41179] Gimli Glider turns 25 > > Dear All, > Yesterday one of our commercial TV channels showed the Gimli Glider story > as part of the '*Air Crash Investigations*' series. > > I remembered the story quite well especially the extremely well written > story by Wade Nelson at: http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html > > Today, I found that the story is available on YouTube as a series of > segments. The segment that is most relevant to metrication is Part 5 and you > will find it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12dMmgTdBI > > For those who don't know this story, it is based on the fact that pounds of > fuel were loaded into a 767 aircraft when kilograms of fuel were required. > > Cheers, > Pat Naughtin > > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped > thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric > system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands > each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat > provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and > professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in > Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian > Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the > UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ > <http://www.metricationmatters.com/>for > more metrication information, contact Pat at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to get the free '*Metrication > matters*' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter/to > subscribe. > >
