On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:51:39 -0600, graham wrote:

> "pat" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
> Hmmm! How backward!

what?! USA number one!!!

your pal,
blake