Why Some Countries CAN'T Go Metric !
Published Jan 01, 1900
If the metric system did ever take over, we'd have to change our thinking to the following: * A miss is as good as 1.1 kilometers. * Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward. * Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child. * Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure. * Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.06 kilometers. * Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.
Originally published November 14, 2002.
