Groan. Bill
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Frysinger Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 20:26 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42302] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh, sodomy? You know what that's a sine of! Jim Bill Potts wrote: > Oh, I knew a pole was not ten feet. However, my mind just went off on a > tangent. > > Brain fart. > > Bill > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bill Potts > WFP Consulting <http://wfpconsulting.com/> > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org <http://metric1.org/> [SI Navigator] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *David > *Sent:* Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:14 > *To:* U.S. Metric Association > *Subject:* [USMA:42294] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, and, uh, > sodomy? > > I forgot about the pole as a unit of measure. But I think they were > referring to the "10-foot pole" saying, since 10 feet is 3.048 > meters. I was just joking about soft metrication. Had that been some > kind of product or good, they would round it down to a nice 3 meters. > > --- On *Sat, 1/10/09, Bill Potts /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > From: Bill Potts <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:42290] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, and, > uh, sodomy? > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 6:53 PM > > As a unit of measure, the pole would disappear completely > (although I think it probably already has). > > "I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole" should remain, > unaltered, as the metaphor it always was, along with > "seven-league boots" and non-metaphorical names like inch worm. > Idiots like Hannity can't see beyond conversion tables and don't > (or won't) understand that, in any case, there's no point it > trying to convert rough estimates using absolute precision. My > suggestion that he (and others like him) *won't *understand it > is because he's simply a blow-hard alarmist who will say > anything, however stupid, to make (or believe he's making) his > point. > > Bill > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bill Potts > WFP Consulting <http://wfpconsulting.com/> > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org <http://metric1.org/> [SI Navigator] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *David > *Sent:* Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:18 > *To:* U.S. Metric Association > *Subject:* [USMA:42288] Re: the metric system, bureaucracy, > and, uh, sodomy? > > Yeah, I saw that. That's such a shame, because they're > really grasping at straws. The metric system is fine in > day-to-day life. People think meters are too big? Every > person in every other country would think feet are too > small. And if metrication were done correctly the pole would > be rounded down to 3 meters. ;) > > People always tell me that we shouldn't transition because > people don't want it, but I say that people don't know what > they want. If people were educated about the metric system, > and I mean everyone and not just students, then the stigma > would go away. > > --- On *Sat, 1/10/09, Victor Jockin /<[email protected]>/* > wrote: > > From: Victor Jockin <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:42287] Re: the metric system, > bureaucracy, and, uh, sodomy? > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 6:07 PM > > Here's another amusing one that I found on the Hannity > forum that Paul mentioned a while back. Maybe some of > you saw it: > > Every country that uses metrics is either Socialist, > Fascist or Communist. I don't want to give up our > Republican form of government just so some engineers > don't have to use a calculator. Metricfied > expressions like: "I wouldn't touch that with a > 3.048 meter pole" doesn't make sense and seems dumb > to say. What about membership in the "1760 Meter > High Club"? It sounds stupid! > > Say NO to metrics! > > There's a pretty strong positive relationship between > support for metrication and educational attainment. > Also, social conservatives are generally fearful of > instability or change. Those two attributes -- low > intelligence, and a belief the world is full of scary > people who must be stopped -- produces some hilarious > prose. Now if only there were fewer such people out there. > > > *From:* Paul Trusten <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* 01/10/2009 9:30 AM > *To:* U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* [USMA:42286] the metric system, bureaucracy, > and, uh, sodomy? > > What we'll be confronting as U.S. metrication > approaches--extracted from a corner of Facebook: > > WHY PEOPLE HATE IT > > There is a good reason why people only adopt the metric > system when they are forced to by unjust, bureaucratic > governments: > > Because it is inferior, for day-to-day use. Systems > which naturally evolved for the convenience of the user > are almost always better than systems set up by ivory > tower academics, and this is a perfect example of that. > > > > Virginia D. Templeton > <http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=632219367> > wrote > at 3:34pm on January 6th, 2009 > The metric system is of the Devil. It was, after all, > created by a cabal of God-hating French sodomites to > make their genitalia sound bigger when bragging to > potential same-sex "lovers" with the hope of picking > them up for a night of wicked, debauched, feces-smeared > buggery in the back room of some rat-infested > "fromagerie." God hates it. > > I just thought I'd offer this up, because there are a > lot of people in the U.S. who missed, or preferred to > miss, the entire 1970s U.S. metrication movement, and > will find 21st-century metrication just as > objectionable, with the old religious and > armchair-mathematics objections resurfacing. > Unfortunately, "metric system" is a phrase that is still > used either as a threat or as a joke among Americans. We > shall need strong leadership to take us to our goal. > > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > Public Relations Director > U.S. Metric Association, Inc. > www.metric.org <http://www.metric.org> > 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122 > Midland TX 79707-2872 US > +1(432)528-7724 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
