On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:59:31 +0200, Ivan Prenosil wrote:
> What about dropping miles/inches etc. as next stage ? (:-)
You'll have to pry my miles and inches from my cold dead fingers. :-)
Actually, I take a bit of a perverse pleasure in our (US) unwillingness
(inability?) to switch to the metri
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:52:03 +1200, David A. Mann wrote:
> IMO, the metric system is more logical, but in general imperial has less
> syllables so is easier to pronounce (eg miles vs kilometres).
I suspect that a big reason people don't want to change is that "small
amount math" involves fewer
Doug Franklin wrote:
> The math is a lot easier in metric, though.
> Does anyone know how many slugs are equal to
> a kilogram? :-)
Poetry is easier with miles ... Imagine CS having written " ... and I
have kilometers to go before I sleep"
>
> TTYL, DougF
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> Poetry is easier with miles ... Imagine CS having written "
... and I
> have kilometers to go before I sleep"
CS?
Aren't these from Robert Frost?
Gianfranco
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In a message dated 8/20/2001 6:47:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
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Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Poetry is easier with miles ... Imagine CS having written "
... and I
> have kilometers to go before I sleep"
CS?
Aren't these from Robert Frost?
Gianfranco
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ROFL!
I must confess that I know it only because I recall a spy movie
with Charles Bronson where those verses were the key to awake
"unaware" soviet spies...
Gianfranco
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dated 8/20/2001 6:47:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
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Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Poetry
is easier with miles ... Imagine CS having written " ... and I >
have kilomete
Doug Franklin wrote:
>
> ... Does anyone know how many
> slugs are equal to a kilogram? :-)
Depends on whether they are big, fat slugs or skinny ones.
Bob Harris
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Of course. I can't believe I made such an obvious error ...
Gianfranco Irlanda wrote:
>
> Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Poetry is easier with miles ... Imagine CS having written "
> ... and I
> > have kilometers to go before I sleep"
>
> CS?
> Aren't these from Robert Frost?
>
> Gia
I doubt it, as that was from a much later error .
> Author notwithstanding, he probably would
> have said "and I have klicks to go before
> I sleep" Same difference. :-)
ppro
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Tom Rittenhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Was that a remake of The Manchurian Candidate which stared Frank Sinatra?
No idea, but the title of the movie was "Telefon".
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Hi Tom,
Then it probably was a remake of the Manchurian Candidate. Basically, the Commies had
brainwashed
some POWs in Korea into assassins and used the phrase "Miles to go before I sleep" as
a post
hypnotic trigger.
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Doug Franklin writes:
> I suspect that a big reason people don't want to change is that "small
> amount math" involves fewer fractions with imperial than metric system
> (SI) measurements.
From that point of view, the beauty of the metric system is that it replaces
fractions with the decimal p
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