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This is one massive storm crawling north off the east coast. This
morning the center of circulation appears to be somewhere off the
Maryland or Delaware coast yet there are bands of snow associated with
it that are starting to affect the southern part of Nova Scotia.

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On 2/8/2016 4:58 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

This is one massive storm crawling north off the east coast. This
morning the center of circulation appears to be somewhere off the
Maryland or Delaware coast yet there are bands of snow associated with
it that are starting to affect the southern part of Nova Scotia.


I was wrong. The center is even more south than Maryland. It just
started snowing here and the main storm center is still almost 600 miles
away. That's a huge circulation.

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Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 04:52:00 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.

Hope all goes well. Don't hurt yourself shovelling snow!
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John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 04:52:00 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.

"Hope all goes well. Don't hurt yourself shovelling snow!"


No worries...the wife helps out.

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Snow just starting.
Got the dog out for his walk at the park this morning. The Highlander dash said it was minus 4C. But the high north east winds felt raw.

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 06:07:14 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 04:52:00 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.

"Hope all goes well. Don't hurt yourself shovelling snow!"


No worries...the wife helps out.

That's nice. My wife is usually the first out the door. But, she wasn't born and raised in
Minnesota.
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On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

2.54

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

If you were a statistician you would say "around two"

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On 2/8/2016 7:37 PM, True North wrote:

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Never mind dummy. The Gregster beat you to it.

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On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
--

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John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

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On 2/9/2016 7:54 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

Although Donnie's is a simpler system, Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system. Hail to the Queenie!

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:21:20 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Yup.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 7:54 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

Although Donnie's is a simpler system, Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system. Hail to the Queenie!

When teaching fractions, the kids would bitch about the difficulty. I'd tell them to go home and
have their parents call congress to push for the metric system. Much easier. Now we have to live
with a hybrid system. I never know what I'm going to need on the truck. Some stuff is metric and
some is not.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs.

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On 2/9/2016 8:34 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 7:54 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

Although Donnie's is a simpler system, Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system. Hail to the Queenie!

When teaching fractions, the kids would bitch about the difficulty. I'd tell them to go home and
have their parents call congress to push for the metric system. Much easier. Now we have to live
with a hybrid system. I never know what I'm going to need on the truck. Some stuff is metric and
some is not.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

What's the conversion of 177 22 9 38 380 357 40 45 50 ;-)
That should get your mind off golf for a minute.

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Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:41:39 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs.

We'll convert when pizzas get measured in centimeters, not before.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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On 2/9/2016 8:53 AM, True North wrote:
Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

America is not the rest of the world. Thank God for that.

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On 2/9/2016 9:00 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:41:39 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs.

We'll convert when pizzas get measured in centimeters, not before.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!


I wonder if Canadians have discovered pizza yet?

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:46:42 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 8:34 AM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 7:54 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:


On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:51:14 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/8/2016 7:52 AM, True North wrote:
Believe they said our blizzard should reach us by afternoon with from 30 to 40 cm of snow expected. Already numerous school cancellations.


How many cms to the inch?

"2.54"


For quick mental calculations I round it off to. 2.5

Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

Although Donnie's is a simpler system, Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system. Hail to the Queenie!

When teaching fractions, the kids would bitch about the difficulty. I'd tell them to go home and
have their parents call congress to push for the metric system. Much easier. Now we have to live
with a hybrid system. I never know what I'm going to need on the truck. Some stuff is metric and
some is not.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

What's the conversion of 177 22 9 38 380 357 40 45 50 ;-)
That should get your mind off golf for a minute.

122.2078mm or 4.81in.

A friend and I are going to play with 9 45 22 and maybe 7.62 later today.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by 2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity, especially one who can't
spell America.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the
wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less
cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by
2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our
centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That
might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common
thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the
metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the
civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would
stay so backwards.

Why throw insults?

Why else are you and your buddies here?
--
Sent from my iPhone 6+

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On 2/9/2016 9:30 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the
wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less
cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by
2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our
centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That
might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common
thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the
metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the
civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would
stay so backwards.

Why throw insults?

Why else are you and your buddies here?

We're here in the hopes that this will return to a boating discussion
group. In the mean time we have you to toss around for entertainment.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would stay so backwards.

===

We would/should have gone metric many years ago except for some deep
pockets of ignorance still lurking around. At the time people were
saying that car mechanics would have to spend thousands in new metric
tools. Of course you can't even work on a lawn mower these days
without metric wrenches. What a joke. The real reason is that people
just didn't want to change their thinking. Of course you'll never get
the Brits off the pound sterling for many of the same hide bound
reasons.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

===

And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

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On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:00:59 -0500, John H.
wrote:

Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs.

We'll convert when pizzas get measured in centimeters, not before.
--

I thought selling liquor would do it but that was not the case.

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On 2/9/2016 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

===

And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

I don't see it changing much. The push was on many years ago but it
seemed to have fizzled out.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:30:34 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the
wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less
cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by
2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our
centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That
might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common
thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the
metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the
civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would
stay so backwards.

Why throw insults?

Why else are you and your buddies here?

There were no insults in the thread, Krause.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:47:21 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/9/2016 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

===

And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

I don't see it changing much. The push was on many years ago but it
seemed to have fizzled out.

I live in a dual world. All of my water people are metric, as is most
"science" and I still have to communicate with the rest of the world
so I am always making the conversions in my head. Usually for those
purposes I can just round things off.

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On 2/9/2016 12:31 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:47:21 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/9/2016 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

===

And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

I don't see it changing much. The push was on many years ago but it
seemed to have fizzled out.

I live in a dual world. All of my water people are metric, as is most
"science" and I still have to communicate with the rest of the world
so I am always making the conversions in my head. Usually for those
purposes I can just round things off.


Just to add to the confusion we have the sprinkler people with their
"funny" pipes and fittings. :-)

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:47:21 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

On 2/9/2016 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:23:30 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote:

Americans don't think they need
to change our system and won't embrace Donnie's system.

===

And those Americans are a bit short sighted.

I don't see it changing much. The push was on many years ago but it
seemed to have fizzled out.

===

It didn't just fizzle out. There was a federal mandate back in the
'70s or thereabouts to start gradually converting the US to the metric
system. All of the reasons were good. As soon as the first highway
signs started showing up with both miles and kilometers, there was a
huge hue and cry from middle america that the whole thing was a
communistic global plot to overthrow all that was good and holy. It
was almost as emotional as some of the religious issues these days.

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John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
- hide quoted text -
On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

- show quoted text -
"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the
wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less
cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by
2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our
centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That
might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common
thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the
metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the
civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would
stay so backwards.

Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity,
especially one who can't
spell America.
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Hell, England had Wentworth. Needed Wentworth to wrench on the Triumphs.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:22:06 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 05:53:07 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Justan Olphart
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On 2/9/2016 8:21 AM, True North wrote:
John H.
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:37:48 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

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"Most of the model airplanes in the magazines and catalogs give the
wingspan in mms. For cms, convert
to mms, divide result by 100, then multiply result by 4. Mentally less
cumbersome than dividing by
2.5, although converting 2.5 to a fraction, 5/2 and then multiplying by
2/5 is pretty easy."


So..since we always measure snow in centimeters...we divide our
centimeters by 10 and then multiply by four to get your inches. That
might be slightly quicker when dealing with odd numbers.

"Get yurself a yardstick. We (Americans) don't care about Ms MMs or CMs."


I haven't seen a yardstick in at least 30 years. Used to be a common
thing in hardware stores up to the mid '60s.
Somewhere I have metal meter ruler. Funny, when Trudeau brought in the
metric system it was supposedly to bring us in line with the rest of the
civilized world. Who could have guessed that the mighty ' merica would
stay so backwards.

Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity,
especially one who can't
spell America.
--

Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns!


Hell, England had Wentworth. Needed Wentworth to wrench on the Triumphs.


.... and BA.
All I know about that is a #2 BA is 5/16 of an inch.
(One of our guys was a Scotsman and he always used his favorite 2 BA
"spanner" on some pesky 5/15" head screws IBM was slow to provide a
tool for)

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Clara Edwards blabs....
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"Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity, especially one who can't
spell America."


You're quite the busybody Clara. How are Andy and the gang.

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On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 4:48:43 PM UTC-5, True North wrote:
Clara Edwards blabs....
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"Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity, especially one who can't
spell America."


You're quite the busybody Clara. How are Andy and the gang.

Oh my. Donnie is on the sauce again.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:48:41 -0800 (PST), True North wrote:

Clara Edwards blabs....
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"Why throw insults? Look at the problems your motherland, the UK, is having with its various
measuring systems.

A Canadian calling America backwards is suffering from mistaken identity, especially one who can't
spell America."


You're quite the busybody Clara. How are Andy and the gang.

Don, you've shown you can carry on a decent conversation. What's with the insults now? And, if
you're going to toss them, make up some of your own. Don't steal from Luddite.
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