Ezra must now be a proud owner of Stephen's patented blinkers.  Now he can see 
only imperial, even where it isn't.

Jerry




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From: Ken Cooper <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:47:25 AM
Subject: [USMA:44695] Re: Nothing but Imperial


Ezra

Are you suggesting that today's Daily Mail uses "nothing but imperial"?

May I suggest that you peruse the following stories from today's paper?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170267/My-husband-going-kill-terrified-mother-told-police-hours-murdered-children.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1170358/Apprentice-Watch-Big-Bad-Ben-spared-need-villain.html

Or perhaps look at the default settings for their weather forecast?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/weather/index.html

Can I suggest that you have perhaps been fooled by one of Stephen's typical 
exaggerations? It's quite easy to find one "imperial-only" article then claim 
it is representative of the whole paper (or even of the entire UK press!)


--- On Thu, 16/4/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:44691] Nothing but Imperial
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 16 April, 2009, 2:20 AM


    Ran across this article today online in The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1170348/The-50-year-old-mother-spent-10-000-surgery-look-like-daughter.html

While this article offers us more than one lesson, it certainly illustrates 
Stephen's point about the absence of SI in today's Britain in various quarters.

Ezra


      

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