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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 23/08/13 3:51 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:23:17 -0500, Doc O'Leary   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article ,   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Agreed - though the NATO standard dates (I assume the months are   
   > translated in non-English speaking areas) are 31Jan2013 or 31Jan13 so   
   > that no one need question whether 01/12/12 refers to January 12th,   
   > 2012 or December 1st, 2012.   
   >   
      
   If only everyone would adopt that.   
      
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