tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303856.post7810481169799750505..comments2023-09-24T05:51:03.030-05:00Comments on It's Jim: What odd company to be in!Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07948285006605333380noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303856.post-24218839791603646452008-06-06T08:27:00.000-05:002008-06-06T08:27:00.000-05:00When I was a kid in grade school, my parents bough...When I was a kid in grade school, my parents bought me a red plastic pencil cup with sliding rings that let you do all kinds of US Standard-to-metric conversions. I always wanted to find another one like that, it was fun to slide the rings around. That was the 1970's, and it seems like there must have ben a big push to try to get everything converted to metric. It obviously didn't take, and the next time I remember encountering metric was our family trip to Victoria, BC ten years later. I remember thinking it was so cool that people were allowed to drive 90 on the highways!stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13332368314010617781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303856.post-42781162334130289072008-06-05T18:40:00.000-05:002008-06-05T18:40:00.000-05:00It's in our genes. How many times in my lifetime h...It's in our genes. How many times in my lifetime has the government attempted to force us to accept metrics, but no, we don't like it. Maybe a liter of soda is as close as we will ever get.monihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396662015688569038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303856.post-67491201247517485262008-06-05T15:53:00.000-05:002008-06-05T15:53:00.000-05:00That's odd to me. I would have thought that many o...That's odd to me. I would have thought that many other small countries with heavy historic US influence (Philippines, Micronesia, etc.) would also be holding out.<BR/><BR/>Thanks--geography knowledge I didn't have!David Amulethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03758977878243268087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18303856.post-79136717841113386082008-06-05T10:24:00.000-05:002008-06-05T10:24:00.000-05:00I used to wish we'd switch to Metric when I was a ...I used to wish we'd switch to Metric when I was a kid. Now that I'm older, I want them to wait until I'm dead. I don't want to learn anything new!Amy in StLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06071519072605592545noreply@blogger.com