Re: Edmonton Eskimos

Jefferson N. Glapski wrote:
> "Jason Hoehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Charles Beauchamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > Hah that must be how old the average Canoodian would be if they stayed
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> > past
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> > > 3rd grade.  Since it is obvious that you folks can't count past 100
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> (well
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> > ok
> >
> > > you can count to 110 for your wrong sized football fields).
> >
> > The truth is, the imperial system is antiquated and makes no sense. There
>
> is
>
> > no rhyme or reason to any of it,... the Metric system is a nice, simple,
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> and
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> > very well concieved system of measure,.. the imperial sytem is not,...
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> It's
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> > a mess
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>
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> It's all arbitrary. Are you advocating that the CFL change from a 10 yards
> to make a first down to 9.144 meters to make a first down, Trudeau?
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> If metric is so wonderful, why did Canuckians have it forced down their
> throat, costing several billions in direct costs and ongoing costs of
> billions of dollars since 90% of Canuckian trade is with a country that does
> not use metric.

When metric was instituted back in the 70's the USA was also going to 
convert.  Then the US realized that it's population didn't have the IQ
possible to be able to understand the switch, so it chickened out.

KH.