On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:43:01 -0600, graham wrote:

> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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!!!
>>
>
> In what? Adulation of celebrities?

well, to be fair, a lot of those overseas adulate our celebrities, too.

your pal,
blake