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Old Wed Dec 12, 2007, 11:44am
eg-italy eg-italy is offline
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
So it takes 5 years to graduate high school in the metric system?
You know that one meter is larger than one yard, one kilogram is more than one pound, one liter is more than one pint. So we need one year more in HS.

Canadians say that they use the metric system, but I believe they are cheating.

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Originally Posted by Dan_ref
Maybe he was red-shirted? (a metric red shirt is kinda maroonish purple btw)
No, no: our HS takes five years. And, of course, we don't say red-shirted: the real name of the color would be too long to say.

Last edited by eg-italy; Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 11:48am.
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