Re: Metric/Imperial...

...then of course we all know that an ounce of Gold weighs more than
an ounce of lead, but then of course the pound of lead weighs more
than a pound of Gold. go figure!

Dave

ps: yes a pound of feathers does weight the same as a pound of lead.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Tony Jeffree <tony@j...> wrote:
> At 19:05 27/03/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >I prefer to measure my planned 37.5cm furnace as
> >14.7748500007978419000430834626043" myself, ever the prefectionist
that I
> >am. Ahh nooo! Metric..... Imerperial...... mating
cockroaches...... fruit
> >flies.......... it's all coming back! Help, get me the fly killer!
>
> All this talk of Metric time and fruit flies...reminds me of one of
the
> classic examples of the difficulty of parsing the English language:
>
> "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a bannana..."
>
> Regards,
> Tony