On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 09:25:13 -0700, graham > wrote:

>On 2017-11-13 9:05 AM, casa chevrolet wrote:
>> On 11/13/2017 4:13 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 6:47:40 PM UTC-5, casa chevrolet wrote:
>>>> On 11/12/2017 2:15 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 1:37:40 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/12/2017 12:25 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 12:14:40 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
>>>>>>>> You want Reality: carefully examine physics.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You want fantasy and delusions: listen to what people want!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> QED!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John the Kelvin scale is completely arbitrary, even if absolute
>>>>>>> zero is not.* Perhaps we Americans would use the Rankine scale,
>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we're doing just fine with C and F.* There are conversion
>>>>>> charts
>>>>>> easily available if someone finds a recipe and needs to change the
>>>>>> measurements to match what they're used to.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wasn't serious suggesting Rankine.* However, I do wish we'd finish
>>>>> converting to SI.* People seem happy buying 2 liters of soda; why
>>>>> not finish the job?* We're the only first-world country that hasn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's nothing human about metric, a foot beats a 1/3rd meter, more or
>>>> less.
>>>
>>> I don't care.* We're long past the time when carpenters measured by
>>> knotting a piece of string.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>> And yet there is historic and social comfort in maintaining a "tie-in"
>> to our roots.
>>
>But I thought, as an American, you would reject things regal! After all,
>the foot at one time was based on the king's shoe size:-) Should it now
>be based on Trump's foot?

Not possible, you'd have to get it out of his mouth first!