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Old Fri Jun 22, 2001, 12:08pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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Originally posted by JeffRef


Allright, I've heard enough metric bashing. It's time for rebuttal...

1 kilometre = 1000 metres
1 metre = 100 centimetres
1 centimetre = 10 millimetres
1 millimetre = the tip of a ball point pen

See how easy this is...all multiples of 10. This works for weight and volume measures too.

Now you do the same comparing a mile to a yard to a foot to an inch (no calculators allowed).
OK, I will. One mile - the distance from your parking space to the gym in a blizzard. One yard - the distance A1 claims was between him and B1 when he got called for smacking B1 on the arm during a shot. One foot - the object that's usually out of the proper free throw box by all six players in the lane prior to the free throw. One inch - the size of a coach's ego after I whack him.

BTW - in pronouncing metre, do you pronounce the "r" and then the "e" is silent, or do you transpose the sounds of the letters at the end of the word? I'm still trying to figure out how to pronounce "centre". I'm just glad we don't have the positions "forwadr" and "guadr".

Also BTW - is it true that FIBA stands for "Foreign Interference in Basketball American"?
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