Robatoy snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote innews: snipped-for-privacy@a7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com:
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> > > >> notbob snipped-for-privacy@nothome.com wrote
> >> innews: snipped-for-privacy@myvai2.not
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> >> >> has been invading most everything. That is, except for the food
> >> >> that we export up from the US. And, considering that 90% of our
> >> >> food comes from the US, it's a wonder we don't all starve deciding
> >> >> how to allocated all those pounds and quarts of food.
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> >> > We're bound to go metric pretty soon. After all, isn't Mexico on
> >> > the metric system.
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> >> Metric or not, a pound is half a kilo, an ounce is 100 g or 1/1 a > >> kilo.
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> >> least when I was a child. I think now they are getting confused ... > > Must
> >> be because of the € ...
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> >> --
> >> Best regards
> >> Han
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> > Een ons vlees. was 100 gram/ 500 gram 'een pond'.
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> Indeed
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> > My grandfather always talked about 'duim' (thumb)..I guess about an > > inch.
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> Yes, that was very, very old-fashioned/obsolete when I was a kid >
> > At our house in The Netherlands, the indoor temp was always in degrees > > F.
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> Well, we had dual scales on the thermometer (or was it triple, with
> Reaumur <sp?> too)
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> > Everything else was metric.
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> Everything was always metric.
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> > a 100mm x 100mm x100mm cube of water weighs 1 KG and is one liter. (At
> > max density 4C)
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> Makethat 1 dm cubed.
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mm's are confusing enough. dm's are WAY over the top. <G>