>>> Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]> 09/04/99 07:51am >>> wrote:
"And what kind of meters do these socialistic foreigners use to determine how far their blonde-haired offspring can fall?"

Now we know that the innate simplicity of the system of measurement used by every country in the world except for a couple of primitive societies such as Myanmar, (oh, and I forgot, the United States of America) is too much for Ralph.

No simple multiplying or dividing by 10 is good enough for him.  Instead, he relishes the challenge of fractional measurements based variously on systems using 12, 14 or 16 as a base unit.

david

PS  I know what both feet and metres are ... and use them both in differing circumstances.