When I had to replace my broken down CRT-monitor last autumn I bought a 24
foot (24') flat screen monitor! LOL!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 2010, March 27 5:07
Subject: [USMA:46986] Re: Where's the common sense in this??
Oh, you shop at Costco, too!
Carleton
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Brian White
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 22:24
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46984] Re: Where's the common sense in this??
Like the 454 kg of mayonaise I bought one time. Or the 227 kg of cheese.
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Humphreys <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 20:29
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:46982] Re: Where's the common sense in this??
Yes we have 'Tonka' over here - I remember having one!
John - I would have thought you would recognise a mistake like this (33")?
And the fact that most - if not all - people would recognise what they
really meant? Of all the signs on our roads one measure mistake is not
bad
going (and just a little ' to boot!).
A worse mistake is in Wales - where someone from the signs department
emailed a Welsh clerk who's job it was to offer back the Welsh
translation.
Unfortunately this Welsh clerk was on holiday and had a 'out of office'
message in Welsh - a translation of which was something like 'In my
absence
please email .... etc'. That message ended up on the road sign!! (I
believe I am accurate in the story - its on the BBC news website
somewhere).
Anyway - back to the topic - it was a mistake - and I would immediately
understand that they meant 33 feet knowing instinctively that 33 inches
would be a very small vehicle.
I think they should have thought harder before presenting the story the
way
they did.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:08:55 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:46981] Re: Where's the common sense in this??
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