On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:18:37 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

|Dave Fawthrop typed
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| On 28 Apr 2006 08:00:38 -0700, "Pat" wrote:
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| |Really, you can't get non-metric stuff? In the US, every hardware
| |store carries both metric and non-metric. Somebody, somewhere, must
| |have one.
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| The USA is on a different planet.
| I once tried to get some A4 copies, and failed miserably.
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|I read a case report from the USA in a professional journal yesterday.
|It gave the patient's temperature in Fahrenheit...

They also lost a spacecraft by doing half the job right in Metric, and the
other half wrong in impe^h^h^h^hUS measurements. They are idiots of the
first order as far as international standards are concerned.
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