I was watching television earlier and a commercial came on for Huggies brand diapers, which showed a baby crawling around with an announcer mentioning something about the baby finally reaching 1000 yards (along with a counter at the bottom left of the screen which runs throughout most of the commercial). I wondered, though, why they chose 1000 yards instead of something like a mile. There's nothing significant about 1000 yards at all. Perhaps the real reason is that "1000 yards" looks a lot neater than "5280 feet"? Could this commercial be somewhat metric, even though they used yards?
