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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:49 AM Original message |
Anyone else RAISED on the Metric System? |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. Oh right, just ME. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. CMW was raised with it. |
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bbernardini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. I think Atom and His Package say it best... (Edited: now contains lyrics!) |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. "come drink a deciliter with me" |
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bbernardini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Oops. You're right. I missed that mistake when I cut-and-pasted the lyrics. nt |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. Nope, but as half my family is Dutch, we have some HEATED debates about it at christmas. |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
5. By the second year of college, I never though in inches at all. |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:14 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I was a surveyor for 21 years |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I accidently bought a surveyors |
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Crazy Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. I've learned it and lived in two countries that use it |
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kedrys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
7. I was |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. I took a lot of chemistry in High School/College... |
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qb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
11. I learned it in elementary school in the 70s |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
12. 28.375 grams of prevention is worth 454 grams of cure. |
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SouthoftheBorderPaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
13. I work for a company that does a lot of international business. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
14. me |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
15. All those guys named "Dave" |
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Ellen Forradalom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
16. 'Fraid not. I began sewing at an early age |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 11:43 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. In comparison to 0° Celsius, 25° C. is TOASTY! |
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Ellen Forradalom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I'm in SoCal, but swimming outdoors at predawn |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Ha! There's a German woman, Erika, down the road from us, who swims EVERY morning |
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Ellen Forradalom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Wow. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
20. No, I was raised on a forklift. nt |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'm Canadian, so I was raised with it. |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-06-08 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
25. I'll have you know this thread got the word 'Celcuis' stuck in my browser right click menu |
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