Metric System

If the metric system did ever take over, we'd have to change our thinking to the following:
* A miss is as good as 1.1 kilometers.
* Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward.
* Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child.
* Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 454 grams of cure.
* Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers.
* Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.

And don't forget that you can't stuff 4.54 kilograms of sh...oot in a 2.27 kilogram bag.

[Brainchild]

Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers

As if that wasn't hard enough to say already

[vass0922]

cracks me up in canada they don't know which system to use...
You drive 40km at 100km/h ... but you're 6 foot tall and 180 pounds

[Brainchild]

now that's confusing...lol

[B71655]

I'm in printing and have a new saddle stitcher ( makes magazines) from Germany, all metric. Last machine was from Chicago. All USS sizes (United States Standard). Now I convert inches to centimeters. Soon I'll remember a string of 3 digit numbers and convert back to inches. Didn't we try this in the seventys? Just kidding. Time marches on. BrianP

[Thud]

Here's something I've always wondered: Under the metric system, what's the word for mileage? Kilometerage?

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

I'm a cusp Baby, was born when the metric system was adopted. I am 6.0' tall, atm about 165lbs, I drive in Kph, I measure in liters for liquid, but pounds and ounces for weight. Yup we are messed up up here, but the very young kids aren't being taught too much about imperial measurements.

Thud We still use mileage, go figure.