dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin) (07/15/90)
You wrote in TELECOM Digest, volume 10, issue 478: | Lest we forget: The metric system *is* now the official U.S. system | for standards, and has been for quite some number of years. (The U.S. | inch at some point in the process was re-defined to be *exactly* 2.54 | cm.) It's just that we haven't yet faced up to killing off this | unofficial but pervasive English system of measures... ;-} ;-} One summer during college an acquaintance of mine worked for the Bureau of Standards. She returned in September, saying she had loved her job there. I asked her, "What did you do for them?" She replied, "I sneaked into schools, removed the yardsticks, and left meter sticks in their place." "Susan, how tall are you?" "Five foot four." David Tamkin Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 708 518 6769 312 693 0591 MCI Mail: 426-1818 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com