Re: misc.metric-system

"Gene Nygaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> >"'While metric awareness is strongest in the cores of Chicago, Los
Angeles,
> >and New York, data indicates that it's spreading into smaller cities like
> >Wichita, Portland, and Columbus, and even into the suburbs,' said Michael
> >Lenzi of UCLA's Center For Statistical Data."
> >
> >Ed Huntress
>
> You're in the wrong newsgroup.  Try alt.folklore.urban where people
> will recognize this for what it is.

What it is, Gene, is a sendup by The Onion. You do know what The Onion is,
right?

Ed Huntress