[TR] HOW LARGE IS A SHEET OF PAPER?

[Don Spence]

John
As you can tell from Jim's comment, Americans know very little about  
Imperial and Metric measurements. We here in Canada are by choice,  
Bilingual, and, when purchasing merchandise from the USA, Trilingual  
in terms of measurement literacy.  Long ago we "switched over" from  
Imperial to Metric.  The Americans chose not to, isolating themselves  
from the rest of the world, except for maybe you Brits  but then  
again, you don't speak their language either.

  One of these days all of you will realize the significant benefits  
of going Metric.  The 10 hour clock for instance. By switching to  
metric time one of our hours now equals 72 minutes of your time,  
which makes for a more enjoyable lunch break. Eight hours of sleep is  
equal to 9.6 of your hours so we are better rested and able to pack  
more living into our longer hours. All the better to enjoy a Liter of  
Lager ( 1.7 imperial or 2.1 US pints) down at the pub.

Cheers



On 20-Nov-07, at 9:49 AM, triumphs-request at autox.team.net wrote:

> From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller at rcn.com>
> Date: November 19, 2007 6:18:40 PM MST (CA)
> To: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [TR] HOW LARGE IS A SHEET OF PAPER?
> Reply-To: jimmuller at rcn.com
>
>
> On 19 Nov 2007 at 15:31, John Macartney wrote:
>
>> Am I right in thinking it's something like 8.5 x 11 inches?
>
> Well, yes, but that's Colonial inches, not your regular Imperial
> inches.
>
> Just curious, has The Continent switched over from metric inches to
> euro-inches yet?  They're always so slow to adapt.
>
> -- 
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller at rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+