In a message dated 2001/12/22 16:12:54 Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< For the most part, Americans are measurement illiterate. It is easy to say
most Americans support FFU, but more realistic to say they are just familiar
with the unit names... >>
In the Middle-Atlantic US, most people under forty are either mildly for or
mildly against metric. Few care much either way. They also have the odd habit
of "metric/yardic propriety": two liter Pepsi, 100 meter watches, seven
centimeters of dilation and 100mm cigarettes are "normal," while "I gained
five kilos [colloq.]" or "It's eight KILometers to Philly" are "weird."
Nonetheless, only rarely do I get the "You're in America..." crap, usually
from morons who flunked both math(s) and civics, anyhow.
{This is a plaintext e-mail generated on an obsolete version of AOL — Randi}
