Re: Where this all started...

In message <9702181527.AA14044@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk>
rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk (Robin Paul) writes:
> SNIP
> >Got a question....If your in england where everything is in metric,
how come
> >the FT game is in inches?
> >
> >Donald Hosford
> 
> We only pretend to be metric- really, we walk miles to drink pints, to
grow
> to a height of several feet and inches and a weight of numerous
stone...
> 
> :-)

And some of the metric units, which I am _required_ to use, come in 
damned awkward sizes.  Ten square chains is a lot more sensible to work 
with than 10000 square metres.

(And, for those interested in scenery modelling, a ten acre field is a 
square furlong)

-- 
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, Furry, and Punslinger..