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You can divide 12 buy 2,3,4,6.
10 don't so we keep 12 :)
The government passes a lot of laws they never manage to enforce any of
them.
They let us know the metric system is around in school.
Our cars speedometer read both but the speed limit is posted in MPH.we
still drive on the wrong side of the road to ;)
and the tool company makes twice as much off of us cause we buy 2 of
every socket one standers one metric.
but mechanic our about the only ones here that ever use metric.
RorrKonn
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From: hans_k <mailto:hans_k@(protected)>
To: truespace@(protected) <mailto:truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TSML] What does Europeans call the measuring system that
uses feet and i...
K M Krieger < pterochromics@(protected)
<mailto:pterochromics@(protected)> > skrev den Fri, 2 Jul 2004
13:43:55 -0400:
> The reason for the name is that the measurements were originally based
> upon
> size of various of the the King's body parts. So they were "imperial"
I do not think so. I think "Imperial" comes from the fact that it once
was
the standard in the British Empire. Of course it is derived from general
human sizes, not just the kings.
Now there are a lot of europeans that do not speak english (most of us)
and we do not call it "imperial". We do not usually have any name at all
for it other than "old time" or something like that, as similar systems
also were used in most other countries long ago.
In 1950-ies there was a US law that the meter system should come in use
within ten years. What happened to that? The british people managed to
make
the change to the meter system around 40 years ago. I remember an
article
in a british magazine (Railway Modeler I think) that had an article
"How to get afoot with the meter system".
O.T. punishment wip render: http://www.visulogik.com/tS/h1.jpg
<http://www.visulogik.com/tS/h1.jpg>
- Hans
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<DIV>You can divide 12 buy 2,3,4,6. </DIV>
<DIV>10 don't so we keep 12 :)</DIV>
<DIV>The government passes a lot of laws they never manage to enforce any of
them.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>They let us know the metric system is around in school.</DIV>
<DIV>Our cars speedometer read both but the speed limit is posted in MPH.we
still drive on the wrong side of the road to ;)</DIV>
<DIV>and the tool company makes twice as much off of us cause we buy 2 of every
socket one standers one metric.</DIV>
<DIV>but mechanic our about the only ones here that ever use metric.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>RorrKonn<BR><A
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<DIV><BR></DIV>K M Krieger <<A
href="mailto:pterochromics@(protected)">pterochromics@(protected)</A>>
skrev den Fri, 2 Jul 2004<BR>13:43:55 -0400:<BR><BR>> The reason for the
name is that the measurements were originally based<BR>> upon<BR>> size
of various of the the King's body parts. So they were
"imperial"<BR><BR>I do not think so. I think "Imperial" comes from the fact
that it once was<BR>the standard in the British Empire. Of course it is
derived from general<BR>human sizes, not just the kings.<BR><BR>Now there are
a lot of europeans that do not speak english (most of us)<BR>and we do not
call it "imperial". We do not usually have any name at all<BR>for it other
than "old time" or something like that, as similar systems<BR>also were used
in most other countries long ago.<BR><BR>In 1950-ies there was a US law that
the meter system should come in use<BR>within ten years. What happened to
that? The british people managed to<BR>make<BR>the change to the meter system
around 40 years ago. I remember an article<BR>in a british magazine (Railway
Modeler I think) that had an article<BR>"How to get afoot with the meter
system".<BR><BR>O.T. punishment wip render: <A
href="http://www.visulogik.com/tS/h1.jpg">http://www.visulogik.com/tS/h1.jpg<
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