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Re; English vs. Metric. I'm fortunate that I live in Canada, except for that one thing. Why somebody allowed a number of displaced Frenchman to govern our fair country I'll never know. The French haven't won a war in recent history, have any number of turnovers and scandals in government (is Bill Clinton of French descent?), and don't even make good wine anymore. Okanagan wine is much better, cheaper, and is HOME GROWN. To our everlasting shame, they left us the legacy of everything being in metric. BUT, the gas companies love it. Gas is $1.32 per liter at the gas stations today; there are 4, count 'em, 4 liters to a gallon, roughly. That makes the price of gas up here $5.28 per gallon. Makes you wonder, hmmmmmmmmm? By the way, some of you might have heard the story about the farmer and the donkey that fell in the pit? Well, speaking of politicians again, we live in the Cariboo, home of the Gold Rush of 1867 and any number of cattle farms. Well, it seems that a bull had to have a private pasture, he was just a little aroused by all the lady cattle around him. Sooooooooo, there were piles of bull droppings all over the place. One day, the bull fell into a hole in the pasture and couldn't get out. The farmer found him, and being the smart guy that he is, remembered the story about the donkey and the farmer. So, Farmer Fred proceeded to fill the hole, hoping the bull could climb out. Trouble was, he used bull droppings (being polite and politically correct, and all)to fill the hole. The bull droppings were kind of liquidy from the long season we've had up here (snow just left 2nd week of May); this caused problems with Farmer Fred and his bull Joe. Poooooooooor Joe! Drowned in a HUGE pile of his own BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sound like anybody (especially political types) that you know?????????? Pat McBride -----Original Message----- From: Gregory J. Neumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008/05/20 20:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [social] I am not receiving anything from this list Robert Derman wrote: > Rod Engelsman wrote: >> Hey Greg! >> >> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Gregory J. Neumann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Hey, Ian, Good to hear from you!! >>> >>> Let's not forget the discussion of "English" (US?) system vs. Metric (or >>> whatever it's called now) system! >>> >> >> >> I blame the tool vendors -- Snap-On, Craftsman, etc .Every set of >> wrenches >> or sockets I've ever purchased has some of both system in it, and >> naturally >> they have to charge more that way. >> >> ( Seriously, it's inertia combined with insularity and an economy big >> enough >> to have our own way about it.) >> > Even more to blame were the gutless politicians who gave in to public > pressure rather than standing their ground and saying, metrics is like > much medicine, bad tasting but good for you in the long run. > Well, that's what democracy is about. Except that in this case, the public was actually showing a fair amount of common sense, instead of letting the scientific community ram a non-rational system dressed up to look like one down their throats. The meter is directly descended from a bad estimate of the distance from Paris to the north pole (that no westerner had yet visited, and would not for more than a century) imposed during a reign of terror by a group of fanatics whose real purpose was to totally destroy the "Old Order" in favor of a "Rational New Order". Why this makes SI a "better" system is beyond me. Why I should discard a system of measure that divides into fractional parts far more evenly than SI for my everyday usage is still not very clear to me. I do think SI's integration of linear, volume, weight/mass and temperature is a great idea, but I don't see why a decimal system based on a weird estimate should have to be part of that. Guess I'm just an USian after all! ;-) -Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.21/1456 - Release Date: 08/05/20 06:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
