The reason is "what's good for GM is good for the US." Robert McNamara.
tyee165 via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
December 31, 2019 at 1:24 PM
We have been metric in Canada for about 50 years. One gets used to
it. Most of the world runs on metric. No idea why the US holds
out.Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
-------- Original message --------From: Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: 2019-12-30 8:11 PM (GMT-06:00) To:
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<buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] This weeks storm of
the century C is for Commie unitsF is for Freedom units--FTSent from
iPhone> On Dec 30, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Clay via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:> > Fake degrees.> > I was raised in
places with celsius, so understand that. I like knowing that water
freezes at 0c and I will not live to see a 100* day. To be much more
exacting, I should learn Kelvin, but that just scares the crepes out
of folks when you report temperatures.> > It also tends to irritate
SWMBA when I tell her how cold it is, as she is not metric minded > >
clay > > >> On Dec 30, 2019, at 4:40 PM, Craig via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:>> >>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:29:03
-0900 Clay Monroe via Mercedes>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:>>>
>>> I arrived near midnight to ANC, the snow had been falling for a
bit>>> over five days, temps dropping to -17c over the past week.>> >>
Why do you quote the temperatures in Centigrade and not Fahrenheit?>>
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