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Re: I'm back... you may all run away from your monitor screaming, if
Posted By: unipeg, on host 207.115.48.65
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 1999, at 07:11:43
In Reply To: Re: I'm back... you may all run away from your monitor screaming, if posted by Jommeke on Tuesday, August 31, 1999, at 06:43:09:

> > > > OK, so I'm back from a trip in which I discovered the joys of passing on frostheave-ridden roads in a 29' motorhome
> > >
> > > Ex-squeese me, is that 29 inches? yards?
> >
> > Feet. Here, anyway, a single quote means feet, and a double quote means inches. So if you're 5'10" tall, you're five feet, ten inches.
>
> One thing i find the most difficult about foreign countries like the US are the measurements....
> We use meters, centimeters, and so on....
> Its hard picturing a 29' (feet, hehe) vehicle...
>
> And how many inches are there in a foot again?
>
> Jom"i-really-need-to-take-some-classes-about-US-measurements"meke

12 inches in a foot.... but don't bother trying to understand us measurements, they really maek no sense.... intellectually, i think we should switch to the system the rest of the world uses (metric)... but i wouldn't want to, i'm so used to measuring everything in feet, estimating in feet, thinking in miles, etc. etc.... it's would be a pain. but we still should.

uni"and how many kilometers are in a mile again?"peg

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