Robatoy wrote in
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On Sep 8, 9:51*pm, Han wrote:
notbob wrote

bob.com:

On 2009-09-09, Upscale wrote:

has been invading most everything. That is, except for the food
that we export up from the US. And, considering that 90% of our
food comes from the US, it's a wonder we don't all starve deciding
how to allocated all those pounds and quarts of food.

We're bound to go metric pretty soon. *After all, isn't Mexico on
the metric system. *

nb *

Metric or not, a pound is half a kilo, an ounce is 100 g or 1/1 a
kilo.
*At
least when I was a child. *I think now they are getting confused ...
*Must
be because of the € ...

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Han
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Een ons vlees. was 100 gram/ 500 gram 'een pond'.
Indeed

My grandfather always talked about 'duim' (thumb)..I guess about an
inch.
Yes, that was very, very old-fashioned/obsolete when I was a kid

At our house in The Netherlands, the indoor temp was always in degrees
F.
Well, we had dual scales on the thermometer (or was it triple, with
Reaumur sp? too)

Everything else was metric.
Everything was always metric.


a 100mm x 100mm x100mm cube of water weighs 1 KG and is one liter. (At
max density 4C)
Makethat 1 dm cubed.

I had one "uncle" (neighbor from way back) who still used degrees F in
his thinking. But he was the only one, and that was in the late forties
as I recall. His house is to be demolished now, next to the old KRO
studios in Hlversum, to make way for an apartment building.

And there was this childrens story about birds dropping dead off the
telegraph wires because it was over 100 in the shade (in Holland!!??)

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Han
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