That stuff is typically part of their disinformation campaign. That is what
disinformation is all about: the deliberate spreading of lies to achieve a
certain aim, in this case to kill metrication. Nonsense like this has been used
time after time after time in anti-metric propaganda. And I think that lots of
people accept it as gospel truth.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, 2008, August 08 4:11
Subject: [USMA:41556] Re: disinformation about the acre in the UK
On Aug 2 , at 4:41 AM, Han Maenen wrote (quoting an anti-metric newspaper
report):
So Christopher Robin, Piglet and Winnie-the-Pooh are being evicted from the
Hundred Acre Wood. From now on, it is to be known as the 40.45 Hectare Forest.
No, no, no!
That's not what is really happening.
In reality, that Woods was a nice round 40 hectares and was known by the
country folk (and Pooh Bear) as "The South Forty Woods" (south 40 hectares, of
course).
Since 40 hectares is 98.841 acres, they just rounded it off to 100 acres when
they converted it to Ye Olde English units for the literary value (read that
"old fashioned value").
Moving forward from the old fashioned to the modern (the modern metric
system), we can now once again call it "the Forty Hectare Wood".
:-)
Ha, ha!
Seriously, no one is suggesting that we convert the title of Jules Verne's
classic "20 000 Leagues Under the Sea" to either "69 046.8 miles" or "111 120
km", are they? Where do these nuts get their strange ideas?
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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