This seems to be typical which I found in that article: "Former football star and President Gerald Ford wanted America to begin looking at 100-yard-long football fields as 91.44 meters."
The disastrous soft metric approach once again! Han ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, 2011, April 01 10:47 Subject: [USMA:50247] April fools day Dear All, I don't think tjat this is an April Fools Day joke -- but it should be. http://www.lvrj.com/news/assembly-nixes-council-on-metric-system-119026244.html Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY 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 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.
