Pete wrote on Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:05:02 -0500:


> James Silverton wrote:
>>
>> Hello All!
>>
>> Today, I bought some blueberries and I discovered that an
>> "American Dry Pint" was 551ml and "1 Chopine Américaine
>> Sèche" !


>Yep, that US conversion to metric is moving right along... at the pace
>of a dead snail in super glue... might be complete in another 100 years
>or so...

Well, I won't hold onto my hat since the Metric system has been *legal*
here for about a century. I'd also forgotten what was a "Chopine" :-)

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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