You need to take your medication :^)
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From: <PopeyMike at aol.com>
To: <KVacek at Ameritech.net>; <sumton at sbcglobal.net>; <mg-t at
autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] cars2 the movie
>I beg to differ with you Karl. Metric system makes sense in more ways
> than one. It is the British system that is confusing for most people with
> fractions and inches and the base 12 measuring system.
>
> I think this was a conspiratorial plot by the British Crown to brainwash
> people in the USA and in this way keep the USA from using the metric.
> Imagine if we would have went metric back in the early 1900 - with the
> force of
> USA innovation we would have flooded the whole European theater with USA
> goods.
>
> Also probably the whole world and we would be much more economically
> powerful today then we are now. Teachers would teach a simple measuring
> system
> to students. Students would like math better.
>
> I believe the British inches and gallons system has made us less
> competitive in the world then we could have been.
>
> As I said the Crown was worried the USA would be too powerful - therefore
> they had to brainwash us to keep the USA in its place. Unfortunately even
> the Crown was not powerful enough to keep USA completely down. That is
> the
> real indignity.
>
> Michael Balahutrak
> Houston, TX
> 53 TD
>
>
> In a message dated 6/25/2011 10:45:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> kvacek at ameritech.net writes:
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