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Subject: metric meanderings
From: "Dan Temmesfeld" <dtemm at yahoo_com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 21:27:23 -0500
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Bruce wrote:
>I'll gladly do this, on a few small conditions.
>If you can personally guarantee me that in your
>life you will from this point on refer to a 2 
>liter bottle as "2.1 quart bottle", a 40 watt 
>bulb as a "0.0536 horsepower bulb", 32 grams of
>fat in some fast food sandwich as "0.00219 slugs
>of fat", your 35 millimeter film in your camera
>as a "1.38 inch film", or a 10 kilometer race 
>as "approximately 6.2 mile race".

yeah, and you'll have to start calling a 45.359
kilogram weakling a 100 pound weakling... geesh.
too much trouble.  45.359 kilogram weakling just
ROLLS off the tongue.

couldn't we just weigh ourselves as a factor of
the band over the rhine?  i weigh approximately
a brian plus half a karin.

19.4 toads tall,
Dan

np: toad the wet sprocket - coil

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