In a message dated 1/28/2005 1:59:37 AM Mountain Standard Time,
Guy.Weller@kencomp.net writes:
In the UK, I was brought up on all the old Imperial Measurements.
I can still remember strange mesurements of rods, poles, perches,chains, not
to mention pounds shillings pence farthings and so on. All long before any
form of creeping metrication.
And yet, in the UK car engines have always been in cubic centimeters . Odd!
.
Could be worse. Units of volume included bushels and pecks. What if we had
used these the measure engine displacement. Would you want to drive a .767
Peck GTO? Instead of motorheads, would we all be peckerheads?
Robert Houston
Texan in New Mexico
73 Midget
63 TR4
An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall
not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the
destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so
dear
or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death. Patrick Henry
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