Re: Edmonton Eskimos

"Krammerhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
> >>
> >>past
> >>
> >>>3rd grade.  Since it is obvious that you folks can't count past 100
> >
> > (well
> >
> >>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,
> >
> > and
> >
> >>very well concieved system of measure,.. the imperial sytem is not,...
> >
> > It's
> >
> >>a mess
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
>

Hah.  Ya right. Like it takes a higher IQ to count to 10....you maroons.

v/r Beau