[pct-l] Public Notice

[Slyatpct at aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

I'm proud to be an American too but our system of measurement is antiquated.  
The metric system is so simple it's a no brainer.  Perhaps, it's easier for 
us Americans if just thought of counting money.  

Sly


In a message dated 10/21/2005 9:16:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
singewald@earthlink.net writes:

> I'm damn proud to be an American and that's just what I will be!  So what 
> if
> the rest of the world is on the darn metric system.  When they want money
> from America, we don't give them rubles, pounds or yen.  We give the good
> old American DOLLAR.  When we send food we send pounds or tons of food, we
> don't agree to send Kilos of food.  So, screw the metric system.  Long live
> the mile, the ounce, and the lb.!