On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:27:42 -0700 (PDT), pat wrote:

> Pennyaline wrote:
>>James Silverton wrote:
>>>Well, I won't hold onto my hat since theMetric systemhas been *legal*
>>>here for about a century. I'd also forgotten what was a "Chopine" :-)
>>
>>It may be legal, young fella, but it isn't American!
>
> There are US laws that forbid metrication. US Federal law (the FPLA,
> for example) forbids metric-only labels on most prepackaged things you
> see in the supermarket.

i think it's more that they require imperial measurements, not that they're
forbidding metric.

but maybe the GOP members of the house will get a wild hair up their asses
and try to do exactly that.

your pal,
blake