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    Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   > Doc O'Leary  wrote:   
   >   
   > >As an aside, I always thought that a good way to get the US public into   
   > >using the metric system would be to market the hell out of metric being   
   > >a way to get *more*.  500 grams is *more* than a pound.  4 liters is   
   > >*more* than a gallon.  100kph is *more* than 60mph.  Gluttony always   
   > >wins in America.   
   >   
   > Don't you already use 2 litre pop bottles.   
      
   No, but just because I'm not a fan of carbonated beverages.  We also   
   have 9mm guns and plenty of gram-based drug traffic.  But it's not the   
   same thing as widespread metric adoption.  Nothing that would give a   
   time traveller from 50 years ago much trouble.   
      
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