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Old 04-04-2011, 01:27 AM   #99 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...INCHES "work" just as well as CENTIMETERS.

...it's ALL about the cumbersome "in-between" conversions, such as 12's for inches vs. 10's metrics.

...what about the old Summarians who used 60 as their units?

...so, I'll just default to my tongue-in-cheek response: METRIC is UN-American!
Ha Ha. It was first adopted by the French no? Oh the horror! It may be Un American and French (shudders), but then so is the Statue of liberty. You yanks and your nationalism. Don't you know Canada is the best?
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