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Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.97.2.246
Date: Saturday, April 8, 2000, at 15:45:56
In Reply To: Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE posted by Nyperold on Saturday, April 8, 2000, at 07:33:48:

> > I don't see any point in changing idioms: something moving slowly is "inching along", something moving fast is "going a mile a minute", even though I have no idea what speed that might indicate and I wouldn't have a clue how fast I might be driving in miles per hour.
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> 60 mph(approx. 9.6 km/h).

Well, hey, I'm not quite *that* bad...I meant I had no idea of the speed of "a mile a minute" in terms of kilometres per hour. The 60mph part I knew. ;-)
On the other hand, I'm darn sure that 60mph doesn't translate into 9.6 km/hr.

> Can't be as bad as naming a city "Rat Mouth".

What?! Where is it?! I *have* to go see a city called "Rat Mouth". Wow. What do they call the people who live there? Rat Mouthers? Ewwwwwwww.

Brunnen-"Just thinking about it makes me want to go brush my teeth"G

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