Lew Palmer SEZ -
> Yeah, and the story goes that, being so organized, they did it in
> phases. The first week the did all the trucks....<grin>
>
When I was in Germany as an exchange student, I talked to a
carpenter who was working on remodeling my host family's
dining room. He looked uncannily like Chico Marx, but that's
another story. Anyway, his grandfather had been a carpenter when
the metric system was adopted near the beginning of the 20th
century. From that day forward, *only* metric dimension
lumber could be used, even in buildings that were already under
construction. It was a mess because bricks, doors, windows, etc.,
were suddenly unavailable in the dimensions used up until that
day. He said "Luckily, a lot of those houses were destroyed in
the war."
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