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Subject:Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
From:Various
Date:Mon, 13 May 2002 00:45:52 -0300

Yep, Metric is awfully complicated for ten digit beings...

It's just Sooooo intuitive to realise that 1760 yards, 5280 feet, 63360
inches and 1 mile are one and the same.

Dumb "system", badly designed, thouroughly outdated.

Anyone who recognises that the US's policy is head-in-the-sand, may find the
following amusing:

ftp://hans-willy.myip.org/incoming/TheFrantics-FranticTimes-051RomanNumerals
-ConanTheLibrarian1983.mp3

Alias Fred, aka Bleu Schtroumpf