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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Murf you and I are about the same age...back when we were in 9th grade or Grade 9 eh? there was supposedly the same nonsense about "everybody going metric".
Ain't gonna happen.
Look at the automotive world for example: they tried it a little with much resistance from every side. Essentially gov. gave up. You can buy most anything these days and it has both standard and metric fasteners on it.
But I'm jis' sayin' as a veteran TP advocate contributing member with tractor icons.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Murf,
I live in the U.S., but I also live much further north than do most Canadians -- at 48 degrees, 29+ minutes North Latitude. (Not sure how to convert that to Metric....hehehe.)
Winnipeg is further north, but not by much. There just aren't too many people who live north of Winnipeg.
My U.S. friends tell me, "You live so far north that there are only three directions from your house."
That's not true, of course, but it is getting much more difficult for me to get back into the U.S. once I leave for Canada. For all practical purposes, I can't go much further north from here, unless I travel to my birthplace, which is located at 48 degrees 45+ minutes North Latitude......or just 10 miles from the line........er....I mean, just 16 KILOMETERS.
The people of the U.S. and Canada do have one thing in common though....... 40 degrees BELOW ZERO. No need to convert that. We all know what cold is. hehehe.
Have a great day, my southern friend.
Joel
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The only people I can think of that metric system was great for is the tool manufacturers. Now I have twice as many tools and twice as many tool boxes to get absolutely no more work done than I could do before the, (I can't think of an adjitive decent enough to use in public) metric BS came along. Frank.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
If you are standing at the North Pole and decide to go home, the only direction you can travel is South.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Rankin, so at what point can one attain and E or W direction if their only option is S at the top?
And was that magnetic or polar North? If magnetic, pretty sure your statement doesn't apply. I don't know for sure though. Edjumacate me.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
If you're standing on the North Pole you can still go north by jumping straight up.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
You try to be mysterious and potificatious and some clown always comes along to burst the bubble........
OK I'll give it a try. I suppose if you took two steps south and turned left you could travel East for about 18 feet and come back to where you started from.
Same thing if you turned right or West, but you would make Horace Greeley happy.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
If, after you go two steps south, you then back up 4 steps then east becomes west and west becomes east.
This situation is similar to buoys in waterways, where red becomes green and green becomes red if you go up a canal system then reach the highest point and then continue down the other end.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Rankin: (honk!) what do you mean (honk!) clown (honk, honk!)?
I wuz jis' askin' ---geeeeez
Okay, time for a group hug?
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
OK, But only if you are using your deoderant today. I'm a senitve kind of guy.
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