Those sure are interesting ways to describe English units. I like Fred Flinstone Units better then wombat. It is short, easy to remember and easy to relate too.
How about a new one that would be more up to date and would relate to the present generation? HSU = Homer Simpson Units Jerry ________________________________ From: Bill Potts <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:30:55 AM Subject: [USMA:43793] Re: Arizona I-19 losing kilometer signs Fred Flintstone Units. There's another term, WOMBAT, meaning either Ways Of Measuring Badly in America Today or Waste Of Money, Brains And Time. Bill ________________________________ Bill Potts WFP Consulting Roseville, CA http://metric1.org[SI Navigator] ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremiah MacGregor Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 19:00 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43762] Re: Arizona I-19 losing kilometer signs What does FFU stand for? Jerry ________________________________ From: "Kim, Rich (ECY)" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:11:52 PM Subject: [USMA:43703] Re: Arizona I-19 losing kilometer signs That’s too bad AZ is changing I-19 back to FFU.I’ve never quite understood why Departments of Transportation want to revert back to FFU. Aren’t they civil engineers? Aren’t engineers supposed tobe supportive of the metric system with all themathematicalcalculationstheydo on a daily basis? At my job when we changed tothe North American Datum (NAD) 83, we used feet instead of meters.Mostof the reasoning was thatthe state DNR and DOT,andthe countiesuse feetfor theirGIS data;it seems to me, engineers would want to use metersandhencemetric system. Based on what I’ve heard onchanging highway and road signs,my guess is thatthis is the area where we are going to hear the most howling from the anti-metric Americans.Of course, there wasn’t a peepabout signswhen speed limits were raised from 55 mph. J . ______________ ____ | | RICH KIM, Spatial Database Administrator \ | | | Washington State Department of Ecology, GIS | // | P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, Washington USA 98504 | * Olympia | Phone: (360) 407-6121; Fax: (360) 407-6493 \ _____| E-Mail: [email protected] `---------' http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/index.html -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [USMA:43690] Re: Subject changed to speedometers and odometers From: "Norman & Nancy Werling" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, March 11, 2009 5:19 pm To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> John M. Steele Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:48:49 -0800 This article http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/03/06/breaking_news/00mileposts0308.txt reports that Arizona Dept. of Transportation will spend $1.5 million of its Federal economic stimulus money to remove the metric distance signs along a 100 km stretch of I-19. This will include removal of the metric and rotation of already placed Customary signs to face traffic. Perhaps not quite the way we hoped stimulus money would aid metrication. (On the other hand, being a leader for 30 years, with no follower or plans for followers is proabaly silly too.)
