"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:51:39 -0600, graham wrote:
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>> "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!!!
>

In what? Adulation of celebrities?