On Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:59:18 AM UTC-5, m II wrote:
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> > Never knew Canadian football uses larger footballs. Do they use
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> > different size basketballs? I think I had heard of the 110 yard
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> > field. Think its 110
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> > yards. Or do they use meters up there?
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> No. They use metres, like the rest of the world.
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> mike
Liberia and Burma use something besides the metric system. And most of Great Britain uses its system instead of the metric.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
In article <[email protected]>, m II <[email protected]> wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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> > Never knew Canadian football uses larger footballs. Do they use
> > different size basketballs? I think I had heard of the 110 yard
> > field. Think its 110
> > yards. Or do they use meters up there?
>
> No. They use metres, like the rest of the world.
No we use meters as well. Mostly for electrical and nat gas consumption
and billing.
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sobered, but stupid lasts forever.² -- Aristophanes
On 04/13/2014 12:20 PM, Dave Balderstone wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, m II <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
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>>> Never knew Canadian football uses larger footballs. Do they use
>>> different size basketballs? I think I had heard of the 110 yard
>>> field. Think its 110
>>> yards. Or do they use meters up there?
>>
>> No. They use metres, like the rest of the world.
>
> No we use meters as well. Mostly for electrical and nat gas consumption
> and billing.
Was up in Canada a couple years back and bought a 12 oz latte. At least
some things are still sacred!
...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
- Lawrence Summers
On 04/14/2014 08:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:58:00 -0800, Kevin Miller <[email protected]>
>> Was up in Canada a couple years back and bought a 12 oz latte. At least
>> some things are still sacred!
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> I don't drink coffee or any variations of it, but alcohol which I'd
> consider much more sacred than coffee has all been converted to metric
> amounts. ~ at least the wine, beer and hard spirits that I buy has
> been converted.
Pretty much the same here in the states. Wine 7 liquor typically comes
in 750 ml bottles. I guess a "fifth" of Scotch is a thing of the past.
So now we have booze and car engines measured in metric. The invasion
has begun...
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Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
"In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car."
- Lawrence Summers
wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Never knew Canadian football uses larger footballs. Do they use
> different size basketballs? I think I had heard of the 110 yard
> field. Think its 110
> yards. Or do they use meters up there?
No. They use metres, like the rest of the world.
--
mike
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 08:58:00 -0800, Kevin Miller <[email protected]>
>Was up in Canada a couple years back and bought a 12 oz latte. At least
>some things are still sacred!
I don't drink coffee or any variations of it, but alcohol which I'd
consider much more sacred than coffee has all been converted to metric
amounts. ~ at least the wine, beer and hard spirits that I buy has
been converted.