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Date:         Sun, 12 May 2002 21:18:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
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From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Warning!!!  Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
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Come on Terry! What could be simpler? Everything is based on tens and hundreds and thousands. When you run out of fingers, you just use your toes.

It's that simple. Or else it's Fryday and i've lost my sense of humour.

Jeff

>We reject the ass backward's Metric system---

>Why?

>For the same reason the Limey's threw out the Witworth and then the British Standard system of measurement---

>Because it ain't simple------


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