Thank you for a concise and articulate answer. I was just teasing anyway.....
Skip (me too on the pints.....just COLD)
At 03:24 PM 9/12/02 -0400, Malcolm Pittwood wrote:
>Skip and list.
>
>Although Britain has "Gone Metric" - or at least our lengths, weights and
>volumes should be quoted in metric - we follow the 'foreign'
>length/distance measurements of millimetres, centimetres and kilometres
>alongside inches, feet, yards and miles!
>
>I think we thought up 'miles per hour' for speed measuring and we are
>sticking to it! So it will be a 200mph Club and not any metric equivalent.
>
>Malcolm Pittwood, Derby, England
>
>ps. We drink a brown liquid in Pints too (sometimes too warm for visitors).
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