In message , IMM
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"geoff" wrote in message
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In message , Pat Norton
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Peter Ashby wrote:
There's an amusing piece in Orwell's 1984 where an old guy
in a pub complains to Winston that metricated beer is awful,
something along the lines of '500ml is not quite enough
to quench the thirst

Beer drinkers in the US must be seriously underquenshed. The US pint
is only 473 ml. I wonder if there is a 'beer drinkers of USA'
pro-metric campaign?

Does it really matter if you are drinking Budweiser?

Duh!! he was talking about beer.

Sorry, fair point
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geoff