On 2-May-08, at 2:17 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:
> It's funny how things go...on another list I belong to (regarding
> Jeeps) we are having a similar discussion of Metric and SAE...This
> little gem popped up on one discussion:
> http://www.core77.com/blog/images/notmetric.gif
>
> Interesting to see that according to this map, Australia has gone
> metric!
Officially so has Canada but you can still buy 2x4's and all kinds of
other materials in their non-metric units
Heck folks still describe a lot of directions in miles
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