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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 10/11/2025 3:06 PM, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On 11 Oct 2025 17:20:39 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>   So we probably should have a poll on whether there is *any* country   
   >> *other* than the US, which calls the ground floor the first floor.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Reminds me of a 1981 Isaac Asimov essay, where in a footnote he said   
   > that the two most powerful countries not on the metric system were   
   > the United States and Liberia. And I believe Liberia has gone metric   
   > since then.   
   >   
      
   But then we'd have to use metric toilet paper.   
      
   That would never work :-)   
      
      Paul   
      
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