[Sca-cooks] measurement Was:Re: Sign of the Times perhaps--Dinner at Crown - cancelled
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Sat May 24 20:27:01 PDT 2008
On May 24, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Margaret Rendell wrote:
> this has already been sorted out (we should have written 'litres'
> rather than 'l', it would have been clearer), but it leads me to a
> related question...why does the US still use the old measures,
> rather than metric? As far as I can tell, there are two possible
> reasons
>
> 1) nostalgia/historical interest
> 2) the expense and effort in changing
Regrettably, I suspect there's also some percentage of Americans who
honestly believe the responsibility is on others to conform to our
various systems...
Adamantius
"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's
bellies."
-- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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