We Canadians think Americans are so quaint, using English quantities
so long abandoned by the rest of civilisation. Miles.... quarts...
pints... (Of course, then I go to the grocery store, and everything
is headlined in pounds and subtitled in kilos....) Quick, how many
pints in a peck?
Tom
At 2000 June 14 - Wednesday 9:00, Timpe, Jim
spoke about *RE: [OM] how's the weather??...* saying
> That's right. Some of us still operate in the Kelvin system... ;^)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Wood [mailto:garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> At 07:44 PM 6/14/2000 +0800, Wayne Harridge (in response to a post by Andy
> Beals) wrote:
>
> >> It is farking hot in Silicon Valley. Here it is, 2230 and 80
> >> degrees outside!
> >
> >That's hot, it rarely gets higher than 40 C here in the middle of summer.
>
> Easy there, Wayne. Not everyone on the planet's switched to the Celsius
> system yet. ;-)
>
> Garth
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